Zach Tuohy

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Zach Tuohy
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Personal information
Full name Zach Tuohy
Date of birth (1989-12-10) 10 December 1989 (age 35)[1]
Place of birth Portlaoise, Laois, Ireland
Original team(s) Portlaoise GAA/Laois GAA
Draft 73 (2010 AFL Rookie Draft)[2]
Height/Weight 187 cm / 91 kg
Position(s) Midfield, Half-back
Club information
Current club Carlton
Number 42
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2011– Carlton 98 (34)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2015 season.

Zach Tuohy (born 10 December 1989)[3] is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League. Tuohy grew up in Ireland and played Gaelic football before making a code switch to Australian rules football.

Tuohy began his sporting career as a Gaelic footballer at the Portlaoise club. He became a regular in Laois underage county sides.[4] He won a Leinster Minor Football Championship with them in 2007.

Tuohy attracted the attention of Australian rules football recruiters from the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League, a club based in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.[4] During 2009, Tuohy travelled to Melbourne to undergo a four-week trial with the club. The club was sufficiently impressed, and offered Tuohy an International Rookie contract.[5] This contract ensured Tuohy would be recruited by Carlton; he was then selected with the club's sixth round selection in the 2010 AFL rookie draft (#73 overall) as a formality.[6] Tuohy became the fourth Irish player to spend time on the Carlton list (and he would be only the second to play a senior game).

Tuohy began the 2010 season playing in the club's VFL-affiliate, the Northern Bullants. He developed as a tagger, and then as a rebounding half-back. He was temporarily elevated to the senior list in place of the injured Luke Mitchell in early 2011,[7] and he made his AFL debut in Round 11 against Port Adelaide,[8] and went on to played eleven games for the season. By 2012, he was a regular in the Carlton team, and in 2013 he played every match for the season and finished seventh in the club Best and Fairest.[9] Over this time, Tuohy became noted for his long, accurate kicking, and regularly drifted from the backline to half-forward to kick long goals from beyond the 50m line; he had shown a similar aptitude for long-range kicking in Gaelic football, in which he was his county's designated kicker for 45m plus penalty kicks.[10]

Tuohy represented Ireland[11] in International rules football in both the 2011 and 2013 series. He scored a goal in the first Test in 2013 at Breffni Park.[12][13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Carlton Blues Rookie player list
  2. ↑ Carlton Football Club 2010 Rookie Draftees
  3. ↑ Carlton Blues Rookie player list
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ (20 August 2009) Tuohy ten weeks from AFL move
  6. ↑ Carlton Football Club 2010 Rookie Draftees
  7. ↑ de Bolfo, T., Irishman earns list elevation, 27 April 2011, Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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