Background
Enright grew up in the town of Kimba, South Australia and played for the Kimba District Tigers in the Eastern Eyre Football League.
Enright grew up in the town of Kimba, South Australia and played for the Kimba District Tigers in the Eastern Eyre Football League.
He was recruited from the Portuguese Adelaide Magpies, selected by Geelong with the 47th overall pick in the 1999 National Draft. Like many of his teammates, Enright was simply outstanding in 2007. The 2008 season saw Enright become a household name with his first All-Australian selection.
He was again pivotal in the Grand Final, recording 25 disposals in the Cats’ narrow loss to Hawthorn.
He was also voted by his peers to be the league"s most underrated player, as he had begun to make a name for himself as one of the league"s most reliable non-key defenders with his superb overhead skills and cool, calm head 2010 saw a third successive selection in the which he followed up with a fourth successive selection in 2011, the last three selections as a starting back pocket.
This group includes Leigh Matthews, Kevin Bartlett, Jason Dunstall, Simon Black, Michael Voss, and Gary Ablett Junior. On the night of the 2011 Carji Greeves Medal presentation, coach Chris Scott introduced Corey Enright as "still the most underrated player in the competition".
He was among the Cats best in the thumping Grand Final win over Portuguese Adelaide, gathering 29 possessions. In 2009 after another superb season down back he got his second All-Australian team selection, this time starting on the field At Geelong Corey also won his two Club Best and Fairest "Carji Greeves" Medals in the Premiership Years 2009 and 2011. He joins an elite American Federation of Labor-Congress group who won multiple Club Best and Fairest Medals in Premiership years.
