Steven Pitt is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 player. Pitt played with the Melbourne Football Club

Melbourne Football Club

The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

 and Collingwood Football Club

Collingwood Football Club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL). He also played for Norwood Football Club

Norwood Football Club

Norwood Football Club, nicknamed, Redlegs, is an Australian rules football club belonging to the South Australian National Football League in the state of South Australia...

 in the South Australian National Football League

South Australian National Football League

The South Australian National Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the governing body for the sport of Australian rules football in South Australia....

 (SANFL).

Early life

Pitt began playing senior SANFL football for Norwood in his late teens. As the SANFL is semi-professional, Pitt had a day job a police officer, but he continued to play senior and reserves football for Norwood.

Collingwood

Despite having an average 1995 season for Norwood, playing the majority of his matches in the reserves, Pitt was selected in the 1995 AFL Draft

1995 AFL Draft

The 1995 AFL Draft was held at the conclusion of the 1995 Australian Football League season.The AFL Draft is the annual draft of new unsigned players by Australian rules football clubs that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.Clubs receive picks based...

 by Collingwood with the 77th and final selection in the Draft. At the age of 22, Collingwood's selection of Pitt was described as "a gamble" by The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

newspaper. Pitt made his AFL debut in the first round of the 1995 season and ended up playing 13 games in his first season and kicking 14 goals, 11 of them coming in three matches.

Back to Norwood

Despite an impressive first AFL season, Pitt opted to leave Collingwood to go back to South Australia, to continue working as a police officer. Pitt continued to play with Norwood in the SANFL, after he moved back to South Australia. The Western Bulldogs

Western Bulldogs

The Western Bulldogs are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based at the Whitten Oval in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne...

 drafted Pitt with the 12th selection in the 1997 Pre-season Draft, after Pitt played in Norwood's SANFL premiership winning team in the back pocket

Back pocket

In Australian rules football, the back pocket refers to a position on the field deep in defence.Back pocket players, situated in the backline, need to have good spoiling skills and usually, quality back-pockets are noted for their hardness....

, however, Pitt didn't move back to Victoria and he failed to play a game for the Bulldogs. Pitt again drew the eye of AFL recruiters at the age of 26, when he won Norwood's best and fairest

Best and Fairest

Best and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...

 award for the 1999 season.

Melbourne

The Demons drafted Pitt with the 11th selection in the 1999 Pre-season Draft. Pitt had decided to give his AFL career another chance, as he felt that he had left Collingwood prematurely. Pitt's career with Melbourne, however, was much less successful. Pitt began the 2000 season with a shoulder injury and, despite showing good form with Melbourne's VFL-affiliate, Sandringham, Pitt only managed three games in his first season with the Demons, for a return of two goals. In 2001, Pitt could only manage two more senior matches and he was delisted by Melbourne at the end of the 2001 season, thereby ending his AFL career.

Post-AFL career

Pitt returned to Norwood for the 2002 season and then moved to Salisbury North for the 2003 season.

Pitt regularly plays for the South Australian Police football team at the National Police Football Carnival, having played in 2003 and 2008.

Pitt is currently playing for Tea Tree Gully Football Club

Tea Tree Gully Football Club

The Tea Tree Gully District football club is a football club, formed in 1862, that is part of the NEMJFA and SAAFL. The current club president is Darren Bugg and Lucas de Lorme . The club was originally formed as Modbury Football club but split.- History :The club played its first game against the...

 in the South Australian Amateur Football League

South Australian Amateur Football League

The South Australian Amateur Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in Adelaide, South Australia. Comprising sixty-seven member clubs playing over one hundred and ten matches per week, the SAAFL is one of Australia's largest and strongest Australian rules football...

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