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Geelong Athletics holds athletic competitions during both the summer and winter months including high profile events such as Victorian and sometimes national and international track and field meets.
Nankervis holds the record of most senior level games for Geelong with 325 VFL games.

Geelong and number
Port Phillip is also home to a number of marinas, including large marinas at St Kilda, Geelong and Brighton.
Greeves played with the Geelong Football Club from 1923 – 31 and wore jumper number 20.
The river is crossed by a number of bridges in Geelong.
In May 2009 it was revealed that the City of Greater Geelong as stadium owner had approached a number of Melbourne based AFL clubs discussing the financial advantages of playing home games at the ground.
The Lonie Report delivered in 1980 recommended the closure of all country passenger service except that to Geelong, elimination of a number of suburban railways, and moving small-volume freight from rail to road.
Before being elected to parliament, she worked in a number of business and executive positions, which included stints as Executive Director of the State Library Foundation ( 1994 – 1996 ) and Director of Development at Geelong Grammar School ( 1996 – 1998 ).
Ocean Grove has a resident population of approximately 10, 000 which, during the school summer holidays, swells to four times this number as tourists from Melbourne, Geelong, interstate, and overseas flock in.
In 2010 The Age reported that Geelong Grammar School ranked second among Australian schools based on the number of alumni who had received a top Order of Australia honour.
Labor leader Steve Bracks, who would go on to win the state election that year, was a Geelong supporter, and Brownless had persuaded the then Premier Jeff Kennett's wife, Felicity, to become Geelong's female number one ticket holder.
In 1972 saw a number of proposals made, one for a freeway though Geelong West, and another for Aberdeen Street to be upgraded into a major road with the acquisition of 99 houses.
The Geelong end of the highway once ran along Ryrie Street in the Geelong city centre but was relocated a number of blocks south to Mackillop Street to remove heavy trucks from the shopping district.

Geelong and league
As a result, Geelong finished second in the inaugural season, a good start to the new league.
Led by Geelong and Essendon, the largest clubs of the VFA formed their own break away league, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), in 1896.
He was recruited to the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) league in 1962 for the Geelong Football Club, where he played 101 games and captained the team for three seasons.
In 1935 the club officially dropped ' Cottesloe ' from its name, becoming simply ' Claremont ', and with the return of George Moloney in 1936 following his five seasons with Geelong Football Club in Australian football's ' big league ' the VFL Claremont enjoyed its best WANFL season to date, winning 12 and losing 8 of its home and away matches to qualify for the finals in 2nd place.
In 1991, the league rebranded again to become the Victorian Premier League, and the first finals to determine a champion was staged in 1992, won remarkably by the newly promoted North Geelong.
* Geelong Cats, an Australian football league team

Geelong and records
Prior to then, Essendon had ( and still have ) one of the worst records amongst current AFL clubs against Geelong in recent times, having only beaten the Cats once since 2003.
One of the earliest records of flooding comes from an 1860s match between Geelong captain coached by Tom Wills and Ballarat Football Club in Ballarat.

Geelong and including
As part of a major recruitment drive North secured the services of several big name stars including Barry Davis from Essendon and Doug Wade ( Geelong ), John Rantall ( South Melbourne ), Barry Cable ( Perth ).
Despite their size, other smaller cities including Canberra, Darwin, Townsville, Cairns, Newcastle, Adelaide and Geelong have begun building apartments in the 2000s.
The state boasts many top-class provincial and country racecourses including Cranbourne, Mornington, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Mildura, Stony Creek, Wangaratta, Warrnambool and Moe.
Several Australian high schools have established experiental education programmes, including Caulfield Grammar School's five-week internationalism programme in Nanjing, China and Geelong Grammar School's Timbertop outdoor education programme.
City of Greater Geelong and urban areas including Geelong
Ablett played 248 of a possible 377 games ( including finals ) ( 65. 78 % of club games ) in 16 seasons as a listed VFL / AFL player with Hawthorn ( 1981 – 82 ) and Geelong ( 1984 – 97 )
Ararat is situated at the junction of several main roads including the Western Highway via High Street ( running eastward to Ballarat and Melbourne and westward to Horsham and Adelaide ); the Pyrenees Highway via Vincent Street ( running east to Avoca and Maryborough ); Ararat-Pomonal Road via Barkly Street ( westward towards Halls Gap ) and the Mortlake-Ararat Road via Vincent Street ( running south with connections to the west and Hamilton, south and Warrnambool and to the east and Geelong ).
Melway ( often incorrectly referred to as Melways or The Melways ) is an almost ubiquitous street directory for Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and its immediate surrounds, including the city of Geelong.
* 10 1977 ( 36 new maps including Baccus Marsh & Geelong, kindergartens, RSL clubs )
* 26 1998 ( 24 new maps including Greater Geelong, Doreen and Mernda, docklands boundaries )
It was also sourced in many other regions of the Victorian volcanic plains and used in towns and cities of central and western regions including Ballarat, Geelong, Kyneton, Port Fairy and Portland.
Mark " Jacko " Jackson, born 30 August 1959, is a former Australian rules footballer who played professionally for several teams, including St Kilda, Melbourne, Geelong and South Fremantle.
His controversial reputation was also due to being reported twice at Melbourne and four times at Geelong, including an eight match suspension following a fight against Hawthorn.
He returned to the Collingwood side the following week and played in the club's two remaining home-and-away games and all three finals, including its 18 point semi-final win against West Coast in extra time, and its five point loss against Geelong in the preliminary final where he was sitting on the bench in disappointment when the final siren sounded.
Established in 1855 under the auspices of the Church of England, Geelong Grammar School has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1, 500 students from Pre-school to Year 12, including 800 boarders from Years 5 to 12.
To the surprise of almost all Westconnect-the route to the west of Geelong including the abandoned Section 3 was recommended.
Several streets are named after him including streets in Ballarat, Melton, Buninyong, Geelong West, Brighton.
Educated at Geelong College, Redpath played first-class cricket for Victoria in 92 matches scoring 6, 103 runs with a highest score of 261 made in only his tenth first-class innings, scored in February 1962 against a Queensland attack including Wes Hall.

Geelong and winning
The Geelong Football Club was among the most powerful in the VFA ( Victorian Football Association ), winning seven VFA premierships up to the birth of the VFL ( Victorian Football League ) in 1897.
Farmer returned in 1963, winning a Premiership with Geelong and coming equal-second in the Brownlow Medal behind winner Bob Skilton.
On 29 September 2007, both Gary Jnr and Nathan contributed to Geelong winning its first flag in 44 years, capturing the premiership that proved elusive to Gary Snr in his 12 years at the club.
Thompson coached Geelong to win the AFL premiership by more than 100 pointsthe highest winning margin in Grand Final history, against Port Adelaide Football Club at the MCG on 29 September.
In the week leading up to the Cox Plate, the eventual Melbourne Cup winner, Media Puzzle, had burst into calculations by winning the Geelong Cup by more than three lengths, and Northerly would have been conceding 7. 5 kilograms to the imported galloper.
He has also become a great of the Geelong Football Club, being inducted into the club's Hall of Fame and awarded life membership while still playing, winning two Carji Greeves Medals as Geelong's best and fairest player and led the club's goalkicking.
He played football for Colac and the Geelong Falcons Under 18's team, winning a premiership with the Falcons in 2000 and subsequently being selected by the Sydney Swans in the post-season National Draft.

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