![]() You just want to play reasonably to thank them for all of that. Looking at the proud face on my dad, you just remember all that stuff. “All the years that your parents have driven you around to training in the dark at Ringwood. “That day was a thank you to my family,” says Banks. His parents were sitting in the MCC members and a mate who he’d grown up with prepared a banner that read, “Which Bank? Matt Banks!” Every time he’d lead, I’d try to stand in front of him.”Īnzac Day 1997 was up until that point the biggest day of Banks’ life. ![]() “I didn’t really get many possessions, but I just bodied him to try and get him off balance all the time. Rocca would only manage two goals for the game and The Australian would name Banks in the best (his mum still has the clipping). Just big heavy bodies bashing into each other the whole time.” “If you’ve ever seen two gorillas fighting each other, that was us. Should an analogy be drawn to Banks’ game that day, it would not be with a first world war documentary, but a Jane Goodall one. It was helpful because it got the nerves out of my body.” “When that happened, it kind of just brought me down to, ‘yes, it’s just a normal game’. “The two Rocca brothers tried to rough me up before the first bounce and Dean Wallis ran through and laid one of them out,” says Banks. Which isn’t to say the game isn’t brutal in its own way. It’s not saying were going to war, it’s simply not.” ![]() It was about perspective, but also what people can get out of themselves – in different situations you can lift the bar. “Sheeds would say you’re about to run out onto the MCG in front of 90,000 people, but there are hundreds of thousands of people that have done greater things under harsher conditions. Matthew Banks is in the back row, third from left. Matthew resides in the STL area with his amazing wife and his two beautiful daughters.A group of Essendon players by a war memorial around 1996. Matthew has judged throughout the Midwest and southwest region and continues to gig on his horn periodically. Matthew has had the opportunity to work with a few drum corps such as Madison Scouts, Spirit of Atlanta, Bluecoats, The Cavaliers and currently with The Cadets as a part of their brass staff. Also, Matthew has completed his Master of Arts in Educational Leadership Administration at McKendree University and is working towards getting his Doctorate. The band has received numerous Division 1 ratings in concert bands, solos and chamber ensembles at the state level. His band program has sent numerous students to All-state in concert and Jazz every year. During his time with the show, it received a Tony Award for best special theatrical event and an Emmy Award for best choreography for a television musical. After graduating from Illinois State University, Matthew performed with the Broadway musical show Blast! on Broadway in New York City and was also a part of the touring cast as well. Matthew Banks graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education.
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