Troy Broadbridge
Personal information
Full name	Troy Broadbridge
Date of birth	5 October 1980(1980-10-05)
Death	26 December 2004 (aged 24), Phi Phi Islands, Thailand
Recruited from	Port Adelaide (SANFL)
Height/Weight	177cm / 185kg
Position(s)	Defender
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2001 – 2004	Melbourne	40 (2)
1 Playing statistics to end of 2004 season .

Troy Broadbridge (5 October 1980 – 26 December 2004) was an Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Contents 1 Career 2 Round 1 2005 3 Marriage and Death 4 Sources

[edit] Career

Broadbridge began his career as a defender with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and was drafted by the Melbourne Football Club at the beginning of the 2001 AFL season. He won the club's Most Improved Player award in 2001, and became a regular in the side, playing a total of 40 games over his three seasons.

[edit] Round 1 2005

In Melbourne's first match of the 2005 season, played against Essendon the demons all wore black armbands with no.20 sported on them in memory of Broadbridge. The demons won that game and dedicated the win to him and his widow, Trisha.

[edit] Marriage and Death

He married his fiancee Trisha on 18 December 2004. On 26 December, while spending his honeymoon in Phi Phi, Thailand, he was swept out to sea by the tsunami which followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. His father located his body in a Thai morgue on 3 January 2005^[1]. Trisha Broadbridge wrote a book about the events, Beyond The Wave, and was named as the 2006 Young Australian of the Year for her volunteer work for various charities, including a school on Phi Phi named in Troy Broadbridge's honor.^[2]

His No. 20 jersey was retired for the following two seasons (2005-2006), and was revived in 2007 by new player Colin Garland.

[edit] Sources