Michael aish biography

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Australian rules footballer

Australian rules footballer

Michael C. Aish (born 21 February 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Career

Aish and long time Norwood teammate Garry McIntosh continually resisted many big-money offers to move to Melbourne to play in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and remained loyal to Norwood and South Australian football. This was helped also bygd the SANFL's controversial player retention scheme where the league paid to keep as many South Australian players in the local league as possible rather than see them cross the border to play for VFL clubs.

Aish was the second son of former Norwood captain and coach Peter Aish. He had two siblings; his older brother Andrew also played league football for Norwood, and his younger sister Susan represented South Australia in both netball and softball.^[1]

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5 Minutes with Michael Aish

Michael Aish, 34, is a native of New Zealand who got his U.S. citizenship last July and plans to run in the Olympic marathon trials with the hopes of making the U.S. team for the London Games. He ran the 10,000m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 5,000m at the 2004 Athens Olympics for New Zealand. From 1998 to 2003, he ran for Western State, a Division II cross country power in Gunnison, Colo., winning individual NCAA cross country titles in 1999 and 2001.

In 2008, Aish won the PF Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon in Phoenix. He also won the Denver Marathon in 2010. Aish moved to the Denver area in 2009 with his wife, Nicole, also a track and field athlete.  

Running Times: What was it like, coming from New Zealand to run for Western State?

Michael Aish: I had very little going for me back in New Zealand. I had the chance for a free education, so I took it. I got offered a handful of Division I rides, but I ended up choosing Western purely on aca