Tom Nicholls

Tom Nicholls
Personal information
Full nameTom Nicholls
Date of birth4 March 1992
Original teamSandringham (TAC Cup)
DraftUnderage recruit, Gold Coast
Height/Weight201cm / 93kg
Position(s)Ruckman
Club information
Current clubGold Coast
Number22
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2011–Gold Coast15 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of Round 1, 2015 season.

Tom Nicholls is a professional Australian rules football player at the Gold Coast Football Club. He was one of the club's underage recruits, and played in the Gold Coast's first season. Nicholls made his debut in Round 8 of the 2011 AFL season, against Adelaide. During that game he played against his girlfriend's brother, Kurt Tippett.[1]

Early life

Nicholls was born in Yarrawonga in country Victoria to a Fijian mother and an Australian father. He completed his high school studies at St Kevin's College in Melbourne.

Junior football

Nicholls began playing his junior football for the Cheltenham Football Club in Melbourne. He later moved to the Sandringham Dragons in the TAC Cup for the 2009 season. At the completion of the 2009 season, Nicholls signed for the newly formed GC17 team that would compete in the VFL for the 2010 season.

AFL career

Nicholls made his AFL debut for the Gold Coast Suns against the Adelaide Crows in Round 8 of the 2011 AFL season. A knee injury kept him out of the team for the rest of the 2011 season.

Nicholls was the Round 16 nomination for the 2013 AFL Rising Star award.[2]

He was selected as the ruckman in the AFL Players' Association's inaugural 22under22 team.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Smart, Nick (13 May 2011). "Suns' Nicholls eager to make AFL debut".
  2. ↑ Rising star nod for multicultural Sun
  3. ↑ McInerney, Sam. "2013 22under22 Team Announced". AFL Players' Association. Retrieved 18 September 2013.

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