Zach Tuohy
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Personal information |
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Full name | Zach Tuohy |
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Date of birth | (1989-12-10) 10 December 1989[1] |
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Place of birth | Portlaoise, Laois, Ireland |
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Original team | Portlaoise GAA/Laois GAA |
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Draft | 73 (2010 AFL Rookie Draft)[2] |
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Height/Weight | 187 cm / 91 kg |
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Position(s) | Midfield, Half-back |
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Club information |
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Current club | Carlton |
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Number | 42 |
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Playing career1 |
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Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
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2011– | Carlton | 76 (25) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to end of 2014 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 50m 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]
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