Background
Cook grew up in Carnarvon where he played for the Warriors Football Club and he spent his last year of school and underage football with Street Patricks in Geraldton.
Cook grew up in Carnarvon where he played for the Warriors Football Club and he spent his last year of school and underage football with Street Patricks in Geraldton.
Cook plays for the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League. Cook played 40 games for Perth in the West Australian Football League between 1994 & 1996 and was runner-up in the Sandover Medal in 1996. At the 1996 American Federation of Labor-Congress Draft Cook was chosen at pick 26 by the Swans.
Cook spent the next 3 years developing his skills under coach Rodney Eade.
During his time at Sydney he perfected one of his greatest assets, his tackling. He also worked with assistant coach Damian Drum who he would later meet again at Fremantle.
On his return to Washington in 2000 Cook immediately showed he was determined to be a part of the Fremantle line-up with a strong pre-season and impressive early form. 2003 onwards
Cook played all 88 regular season games (a club record for consecutive games at the time) in his first four seasons at Fremantle, but broke his ankle in the final round of 2003, forcing him to miss Fremantle"s first ever finals match.
Recovering from the broken ankle, he started the 2004 season in the WAFL before eventually playing 18 games.
He missed two games late in the season with a hamstring strain and was used mainly in defence. As hard at the ball as ever and, despite his slow start to the season, was fifth on Fremantle"s tackles list. On 26 August 2007 Cook announced that 2007 will be his final season of American Federation of Labor-Congress football.
He played his 150th and final match in Round 22, 2007, against Portuguese Adelaide, earning him life membership of Fremantle.
Since this time he has played for the Perth Football Club in the WAFL. He continued to play on in season 2010 for the club that provided him with his start in football, and retired from the WAFL in the middle of the year, having played a total of 303 games for Sydney, Fremantle, Perth and Western Australia. to take up a role with Fremantle.
In 1993 he was a member of the Washington Under 18 team playing alongside future team-mates Shaun McManus and Peter Bell.
