Allen Christensen

Allen Christensen is a retired player most recently playing for Brisbane.

Allen Christensen (born 19 May 1991) is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A small forward, 1.76 metres (5.8 ft) tall and weighing 77 kilograms (170 lb), Christensen is also able to contribute as a midfielder.

Christensen is the nephew of former Geelong players Marty and Damien Christensen, and is of Indigenous Australian heritage.

Allen Christensen was born to Brendan and Helen Christensen and raised in Lara, a rural suburb of Geelong, Victoria.

Christensen played junior football with the Lara Football Club, and later the St Marys Football Club in Darwin as an under-15 and under-16 player while his father coached the senior side for two seasons in 2005–06. Upon his return to Victoria he was chosen to play with the Geelong Falcons in the TAC Cup competition throughout 2008, where he played 15 games and scored 11 goals. As a bottom-aged player, Christensen earned mid-year State selection in the AFL National Under 18 Championships, representing Victoria Country as a half-forward flank.

Returning in 2006 with the Falcons, Christensen entered his final year of junior football as one of the top rated prospects in his age group. Playing primarily as an inside midfielder, his early performances in the TAC Cup led to suggestions he would be a potential top-10 draft pick later in the year, and he was again rewarded with mid-year State honours for Victoria Country. In addition, he was named in the TAC Cup Team of the Year, and finished second in the league's Morrish Medal, awarded to the player judged the best for the season.