Trent Cotchin

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Trent Cotchin
Personal information
Full name	Trent Cotchin
Date of Birth	7 April 1990 (1990-04-07) (age 18)
Place of Birth	Victoria
Recruited from	Northern Knights
Draft	2^nd overall, 2007 Richmond
Height/Weight	185cm / 80kg
Position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Richmond
Number	9
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2008-	Richmond	15 (9)^[1]
¹ Playing statistics to end of 2008 season.

Career highlights
TAC Cup Victorian Metropolitan Representative 2007 AIS/AFL U18 tour to South Africa 2007 AFL Rising Star nominee 2008

Trent Cotchin

Personal information

Full name

Trent Cotchin

Date of Birth

7 April 1990 (age 18)

Place of Birth

Victoria

Recruited from

Northern Knights

Draft

2^nd overall, 2007
Richmond

Height/Weight

185cm / 80kg

Position

Midfielder

Club information

Current club

Richmond

Number

Playing career¹

Years

Club

Games (Goals)

2008-

Richmond

15 (9)^[1]

¹ Playing statistics to end of 2008 season.

Career highlights

TAC Cup Victorian Metropolitan Representative 2007
AIS/AFL U18 tour to South Africa 2007
AFL Rising Star nominee 2008

Trent Cotchin (born 7 April 1990) is an Australian rules football player, recruited at pick 2^[2]^[3] in the 2007 AFL Draft by the Richmond Football Club. He was recruited from the Northern Knights under 18 football club, which made the preliminary finals of the 2007 TAC Cup competition.

The promising young Tiger struggled with injury heading into the 2008 AFL season and was put onto the long term injury list. Cotchin was declared fit to play by Round 4 and then played three matches for Richmond's VFL affilliate side Coburg Tigers.

Cotchin made his debut against Geelong in Round 8, coming in as a late withdrawal for Adam Pattison, picking up 16 possessions and kicking 2 goals, one of them with his first kick. In his debut match Cotchin showed plenty of promise, playing mainly up forward with a few stints on the ball.

After further impressive performances Cotchin received the Rising Star nomination for Round 12. Trent Cotchin was third in the NAB rising star award with 21 votes. The young Docker, Rhys Palmer, topped the poll with 44 votes, one off the maximum, ahead of Hawthorn's Cyril Rioli with 37.

Trent was one of five teenage footballers whose final year of junior football was chronicled in the book The Draft: Inside the AFL's Search for talent by Emma Quayle, published by Allen and Unwin in September 2008.