100 goals on four occasions – winning the league goal-kicker in 1997 with 128. Barry Connolly was made No. 1 ticket holder in 2003 following an 18-year stint a Goulburn Valley league chairman and is a former captain-coach, coach of the under 18s and president. The club has won the George Hunter Champion Club award six times – 1980, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1999 and 2006. From the inception of netball in 1981, United has remained a force with an A grade premiership win in 2005 and 15 lower grade premierships. Jacqui Hudgson won the Wellman Family Medal for the best and fairest player in A grade in 1998. Chris Kennedy became a dominant footballer in the 1990s and early 2000s, with a record five Alan McCluskey Medals and playing in losing grand finals in 1999 and 2000. After a grand final loss in 1999 to arch-rival Shepparton, and a preliminary final loss to Shepparton Swans in 2007, United broke a 21-year premiership drought in 2010 with a 24-point win against Kyabram in front of 11,000 people at its home ground Deakin Reserve, Shepparton. The following year United claimed back-to-back premierships in a 15-point win over rivals Mooroopna. In 2016, the Under 18s snapped a 32-year drought and 10 losing grand finals in between when it defeated Euroa by 4 points. Led by Jack Norman who was named BOG and Garry Lyon Medallist for best player in the finals, he and Joshua Kezerle led the charge and brought it home for the Demons. AFL players In more than five decades the club has produced many champions, including Tom Carey who played at North Melbourne, before returning to become a star of the competition after suffering a serious knee injury. Des Campbell played in the 1967 premiership team as a teenager before a brief stint with AFL/VFL club Melbourne. He returned to lead the club to the 1974 and 1980 premierships as coach and won three Alan McCluskey Medals as the best and fairest player. Chris Connolly played in the 1980 premiership team before joined Melbourne where he played 84 games. He later joined Hawthorn as an assistant coach before coaching the Fremantle Dockers to its first finals series. Shaun Hart's last game for Shepparton United was in its 1989 premiership team before joining Brisbane. He played 273 games including three consecutive premierships (2001, 2002, 2003) and won a Norm Smith Medal