David Parkin

David Parkin is a former AFL player and four times premiership coach at two different clubs, Hawthorn and Carlton. He won back to back premierships for Carlton in 1981-82. He played with the Hawthorn Football Club for 13 years and in that time he represented Victoria 5 times. He was also the Captain of Hawthorn from 1969-1973.

Parkin is a qualified teacher and is currently a lecturer in Sports and Exercise at the Deakin University in Melbourne. He holds a BEd from the University of Western Australia.

Since his retirement, he is currently a commentator for ABC Radio. He has also appeared on Talking Footy on the Seven Network and has been a media commentator for Fox Footy.

In 2002 David was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.