Our series begins with Mark Blicavs,Larissa Crummer, Sam Groth and Sean McMahon – four athletes who rose to prominence over the past 12 monthsGeelong recruiter Stephen Wells has a formidable reputation for pulling diamonds from the rough, or but Mark Blicavs collecting his maiden best-and-fairest in October was perhaps Wells’s crowning glory. The former steeplechaser raised eyebrows by signing with the Cats as a category B rookie in 2011,having missed choice to the London Olympics. AFL clubs experimenting with recruits from other sports isn’t new – American basketballers are currently in vogue – and most suspected the athlete with the tough-to-pronounce surname and the unfashionable No46 on his back would be nothing more than that.
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Source: theguardian.com