Copeland Trophy winner Paul Licuria has joined the Collingwood board
TWO-TIME Copeland Trophy winner Paul Licuria has joined the Collingwood board, with the former Magpie star one of two changes at the top level for the club.
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TWO-TIME Copeland Trophy winner Paul Licuria has joined the Collingwood board.
Licuria is one of two changes at the top level for the Magpies, with Jodie Sizer also joining.
Sizer and Licuria replace Alisa Camplin and Ian McMullin who have chosen to step down.
Licuria played 182 games with the Magpies between 1999 and 2007. He also played 10 matches with the Sydney Swans during 1997 and 1998.
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As well as his best and fairest accolades, in his time at Collingwood, Licuria received the Bob Rose Award as best finals player in 2002 and the Darren Millane award for best clubman in 2003.
He was elevated into the Collingwood hall of fame in 2011.
Licuria will replace McMullin, who is stepping down after almost 20 years, following the club’s lengthy review into its football department.
“It has been a privilege and a wonderful experience to serve Collingwood,” McMullin said.
“The review and subsequent blueprint the club commissioned last year made a case for change right across the club, a position I agreed with, and for me the club comes first. I feel the time is right to pass the baton on to someone like Paul Licuria.
“Collingwood is one of the great characters on the national sporting stage. It will always be close to my heart and, of course, I will always be available to help the Collingwood Football Club in any way I can.”
Camplin has chosen to retire as a director after more than eight years on the board.
Sizer, a founding partner and principal of the indigenous consulting division of Price Waterhouse Coopers, is a Djab Wurrung/Gunditjmara woman and one of Australia’s foremost indigenous leaders.
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