Alan Preen

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}

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| name = Alan Preen

| image = Alan Preen.jpg

| caption = Preen during his football career

| fullname = Alan Thomas Preen

| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|7|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Fremantle, Western Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|11|27|1935|7|4|df=yes}}

| death_place = Fremantle, Western Australia

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| statsend = 1959

| years1 = 1953–1959

| club1 = East Fremantle

| games_goals1 = 122 (93)

| careerhighlights =

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Alan Thomas Preen (4 July 1935 – 27 November 2016) was a sportsman who played Australian rules football with East Fremantle in the WANFL and first-class cricket for Western Australia during the 1950s. He is a half forward flanker in East Fremantle's official 'Team of the Century'.

Preen was mainly a centre half forward but could also be used in the ruck. He played at East Fremantle between 1953 and 1959, a career which yielded 122 senior games with Best and fairest award wins in 1954 and 1958 as well as a premiership in 1957. He regularly represented Western Australia at interstate football, in all playing 15 state games, with his performance in 1958 earning him All-Australian selection.

As a cricketer, Preen was a left-arm medium-pace bowler and from his 13 first-class matches from 1953–54 to 1956–57 took 28 wickets at 34.96. His best innings bowling figures of 6/97 were taken against Victoria at the St Kilda Cricket Ground and included the wickets of Neil Harvey, Sam Loxton and Colin McDonald.{{cite web |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/21/21886.html|title=Victoria v Western Australia 1955/56| publisher=CricketArchive}}

Preen died on 27 November 2016 after a long illness.