Melbourne Cricket Club member and former Carlton and West Coast Eagles captain Chris Judd has cemented his place in football immortality, after being inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday night.
Judd was drafted to the Eagles as the third pick overall in the 2001 AFL 'Super Draft', where he would become part of a star-studded West Coast midfield and the club's captain, on their way to claiming the 2006 AFL Premiership.Individually he would collect the 2004 AFL Brownlow Medal, the Norm Smith Medal in the 2005 Grand Final and two West Coast Eagles Club Champion awards, before returning to Melbourne to join Carlton at the end of 2007.
At the Blues, he captained the club from 2008 to 2012 and claimed the John Nicholls Medal as Carlton's best-and-fairest in his first three seasons at Princes Park.
At his retirement in 2015, Judd's individual accolades include six-time All-Australian, two-time Leigh Matthews Trophy winner as well as claiming a second Brownlow Medal in 2010, and Life Membership of the AFL, West Coast Eagles and Carlton Football Clubs.
Sports Excellence Scholarship Fund (SESF) board member Nathan Burke was also an inductee to the Australian Football Hall of Fame, last night.
The SESF became a Community Partner of the MCC Foundation earlier this year, with scholarships awarded to talented young athletes who are met with financial hardship impacting their sporting career.
Burke played 323 games for St Kilda between 1987 and 2003 (including captaining the Saints between 1996 and 2000), in which he was a four-time All-Australia and claimed three St Kilda best-and-fairest awards. He is a member of St Kilda's Team of the Century and is an inductee into the St Kilda Football Club Hall of Fame.
Burke is now the current coach of the Western Bulldogs AFLW team.
Joining Judd and Burke as inductees last night were female trailblazer Debbie Lee and WAFL and VFL premiership player Robert Wiley.
Western Australia's Merv McIntosh and South Australia's Jack Oatey were posthumously elevated to Legend status, following their Hall of Fame inductions in 1996.
The MCC would like to congratulate both Judd and Burke on their induction into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.