Ryan Garthwaite  Ryan Garthwaite (born 30 June 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He won a VFL premiership while playing with the club's reserves side in 2019. Garthwaite grew up in Corowa, a country town in New South Wales' Riverina region. He first played junior football with the Yarrawonga Football Club in the junior ranks of the Ovens & Murray Football League. In 2013 Garthwaite played with a combined Rivernia-Murray area team at the 2013 under 15 New South Wales schools championships.. That same year he switched local clubs, playing instead with Lavington. There he was a key player in the club's junior premiership in 2014, kicking five goals in Lavington's victory in division one of the Ovens and Murray under 16 league. Another club switch followed in 2015, with Garthwaite moving to play with the Corowa-Rutherglen Football Club. There he earned a senior debut at age 16 that year. He also begun representing his region in state-league junior football in 2015, playing with the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup. Up to this point he played exclusively as a forward, before making a switch into defence with the Bushrangers. He placed second in the club's best and fairest award that year despite being an underager, finishing behind only future-first-round AFL draft pick Clayton Oliver. After undergoing knee-surgery in the off-season, he rejoined the Bushrangers in 2016, a consistent performer in defence across the season. After a best-on-ground performance in the club's preliminary final he was again named in Murray's best the next week, this time in their TAC Cup grand final loss. Garthwaite repeated his effort set the year previous, again placing second in the club's best and fairest count. He was named by "Fox Sports" as the junior league's best one-on-one key defender that season, with Champion Data statistics also revealing he lost just two such contests, less than 7% of his one-on-ones in 2016. Garthwaite was also noted by "AFL Draft Central" as one of the best intercept marks in that competition, having averaged 6.5 marks per game across the season. During the year he also played intermittent senior football with the Corowa-Rutherglen in the Ovens & Murray Football League.