After playing high school soccer and college basketball, 6'11" Texan Mason Cox was invited to join a US Combine for a sport he'd never heard of: Australian football. 10 years and more than 100 senior games later, the 32-year-old recently became the first American-born-and-raised AFL premiership player. And, as luck would have it, his workplace, the Collingwood Football Club, is right across the road from Melbourne Park — great news for this self-confessed tennis fanatic!

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