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Wayne’s Biog Wayne Schwass is one of the most highly rated performers in the AFL history, playing 282 games at the elite level for fourteen and a half years with the North Melbourne Football Club and the Sydney Swans from 1988 to 2002. During his successful fourteen years career Wayne achieved the following honours: Won three Club Best & Fairest awards (1994, 1995 NMFC & 1999 SSFC) Premiership player with NMFC 1996 All Australian 1999 NMFC Team of the Century NMFC Hall of Fame Since retiring in 2002, Wayne has established himself as a highly respected AFL broadcaster on TV, radio, on-line, newspaper and internet. Wayne currently works with TripleM Footy and Crocmedia. Wayne founded the ‘Sunrise Foundation’ in 2006, an organisation he created after becoming one of the first AFL players to speak openly about his experiences with mental health conditions including depression. The ‘Sunrise Foundation’ while no longer operating was created to deliver preventative education programs to secondary school stu