Playing Career
Prendergast was recruited as the number 58 draft pick in the 1998 AFL Draft from the Kerang Rovers. He was elevated to the Carlton Football Club Senior list in 2001 and made his debut in Round 17, 2001 against Hawthorn.
Prendergast earned semi-regular selection throughout his career at Carlton, typically playing about half of the season with Carlton and half with VFL-affiliate Northern Bullants. 2004 was his strongest season for selection, playing the first seventeen games of the year.
Prendergast played only three games for Carlton in 2006, partly because the club was adopting a youth policy. He spent most of the year as one of the Northern Bullants' best players. He was delisted by Carlton at the end of 2006.
After being delisted, Prendergast moved to South Australia, where he played for the South Adelaide in the SANFL in 2007 and 2008. He moved back to Melbourne in 2009, and played with Balwyn in the Eastern Football League until 2011; he also served as assistant coach in 2011. In 2012, he moved to the University Blues in the Victorian Amateur Football Association as a playing assistant coach.
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