Dane Rampe
Dane Rampe (born 2 June 1990) is an Australian rules football player who plays for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). He has served as co-captain of the Swans since the 2019 season. Early life. Rampe was born in Sydney and grew up in Clovelly, New South Wales. His grandparents and father had migrated to Sydney from Estonia. He was educated at Newington College where he played basketball and football. He was 17 when he first played Australian football. Rampe was in attendance at the Sydney Swans vs. match in which Tony Lockett kicked  his record-breaking 1,300th AFL goal, and was one of the hundreds who flooded the field when it occurred. Football career. After school he spent three seasons in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with Williamstown helping them win the inaugural Foxtel Cup. He was twice invited to train with the Western Bulldogs in the preseason but returned to Sydney shortly after playing in the 2011 VFL grand final. In 2012 he played for UNSW-Eastern Suburbs Bulldogs in the Sydney AFL and won the Phelan medal as the best player in the league for the season. Rampe's standout game  for 2013 was against the Adelaide Crows where he had 18 disposals (11 kicks, 7 handballs) along with 4 marks and 4 tackles in his sides impressive 127 to 50 victory. In March 2017, Rampe injured himself while out jogging. He fell and broke his arm. On 24 May 2017, it was announced that he would wear number 50 on his guernsey, rather than his usual 24, for the round 10 Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round game against . This was to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum ( which allowed Indigenous Australians to be counted with the general population  in the census). Rampe had a banner 2019 season, albeit not without some controversy. He was appointed co-captain alongside Josh Kennedy and Luke Parker prior to the season, and he won his first best-and-fairest award for the Swans after playing all but one match for the year. He gained notoriety during the year when he jumped onto a goalpost after the Round 8 match against Essendon to stop David Myers from trying to kick a goal after the siren. He was fined for his stunt, and for saying “You talk like a little girl” to the umpire . In 2020, Rampe had another excellent year in defence, although impeded significantly with a broken hand sustained in Rd 8 against Hawthorn. Remarkably he had continued to play another four games with the injury, before further damage led to a premature end to his season. His courage over continuing to play with the injury lead to him being awarded the Robert Rose Award for Most Courageous Player at the end of the season. Statistics. ! | 2013 ! | 2014 ! | 2015 ! | 2016 ! | 2017 ! | 2018 ! | 2019 ! | 2020 ! | 2021 !| Career ! 190 ! 6 ! 13 ! 1951 ! 1188 ! 3241  ! 948 ! 455 ! 0.0 ! 0.0 ! 10.2 ! 6.2 ! 17.0 ! 4.9 ! 2.3