Career
Harris never played football at a national level, and his career at state level was short, but memorable. He played primarily as a rover/midfielder. From country Victoria, he played his early senior football for the Wodonga Bulldogs in the Ovens & Murray Football League, winning a premiership there in 1987.
Harris moved to Bendigo in 1988 to complete a degree in primary school teaching.
During his three years in Bendigo, Harris played for Golden Square in the Bendigo Football League, winning premierships there in 1988 and 1989. He returned to Wodonga in 1991 and played one more season with the Bulldogs.
In 1992, Harris moved to Western Australia, and secured a contract to play with West Perth in the WAFL. Harris quickly became a star player at West Perth. He captained the WAFL representative team in 1996, and was ultimately named in the West Perth Team of the Decade for 1994-2003.
Harris played five seasons for West Perth before leaving at the end of 1996.
He coached at the Raiders for three seasons, winning the club"s first Ovens & Murray Football League premiership in 1998. In 2000, Harris left the Raiders and took an assistant and development coaching role with the NSW/ACT Rams in the TAC Cup. After the Rams left the TAC Cup at the end of 2001, Harris returned to West Perth and took on the senior coaching role.
Harris coached four seasons at West Perth in total.
In 2006, Harris was recruited for the first time to the Australian Football League, taking an assistant coaching role at the West Coast Eagles. He held this role from 2006 until 2008, and was at the club for its 2006 premiership.
Harris and the Eagles parted company mutually at the end of 2008 as Harris sought to return to Victoria. In 2009, Harris became development manager at the Carlton Football Club, spending two years in this role, before becoming development coach and the senior coach of Carlton"s VFL-affiliate club, the Northern Bullants, in 2011.
He gave up the VFL coaching role at the end of the season 2011 to focus on the development role, but returned to the senior coaching role for the newly renamed Northern Blues after Robert Hyde stepped down from the role at midseason in 2012.
Harris left Carlton at the end of 2012, and returned to Western Australia to take up a position at leadership consulting firm Leading Teams.