Jacob Dawson

Last updated

Jacob Dawson
Jacob Dawson 2019.2.jpg
Dawson playing for Gold Coast in May 2019
Personal information
Full name Jacob Dawson
Nickname(s) Dawson Shaker
Date of birth (1999-11-03) 3 November 1999 (age 22)
Original team(s) Palm Beach Currumbin (QAFL)
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Position(s) Midfielder
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2018–2019 Gold Coast 9 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2019.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Jacob Dawson (born 3 November 1999) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Contents

Early life

Dawson was raised on the Gold Coast and grew up playing his junior football for the Burleigh Bombers. His father, Paul, played professional basketball in the National Basketball League. [1] [2] Jacob attended Palm Beach Currumbin High School throughout his youth and was placed in the Gold Coast Suns' academy at 13 years of age. [3] He switched to the Palm Beach Currumbin Football Club at 17 years old [4] and was chosen to represent the Gold Coast in the Academy Series and the Allies in the 2017 AFL Under 18 Championships. [5] Dawson also played in Palm Beach Currumbin's 2017 QAFL senior premiership winning team. [6]

In November 2017, he was picked with a rookie selection by the Gold Coast Football Club at the AFL draft. [7]

AFL career

Dawson made his AFL debut in round 14 of the 2018 AFL season against Hawthorn. [8] Dawson was delisted at the end of the 2019 season. [9]

Related Research Articles

Andrew Raines is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club, Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is the son of Geoff Raines, a premiership centreman who played for Richmond, Collingwood, Essendon and Brisbane Bears.

Ben Hudson Australian rules footballer

Ben Hudson is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club, Western Bulldogs, Brisbane Lions and Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He has served as the defensive skills, ruck and forwards coach at the Brisbane Lions since September 2014. He was also the ruck coach for Collingwood after being selected as a mature age rookie player in the 2012 rookie draft.

Kurt Tippett Australian rules footballer

Kurt Anthony Tippett is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans. He also played for the Adelaide Football Club between 2007 and 2012. Tippett represented Queensland in under-18 basketball before transferring to Australian rules football and playing for Southport Football Club. He was selected by Adelaide in the 2006 AFL draft.

Brent Renouf is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Ricky Henderson Australian footballer

Ricky John Henderson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club and the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Henderson was Adelaide's first selection in the 2009 rookie draft, taken at pick 10.

Broc McCauley is a former Australian rules footballer, who played for Hawthorn Football Club and Brisbane Lions Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Joel Wilkinson Australian sportsman (born 1991)

Joel Wilkinson is an Australian sportsman who has played professional Australian rules football and American football. He played 26 games as a defender for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), where he was one of the club's underage recruits and played in the club's first season in 2011. Known as one of the best pound for pound athletes, he set numerous records at the AFL combine, including the 20-metre sprint and repeat 30-metre sprint test. Switching codes with the aim of playing in the National Football League (NFL), he signed with the Arizona Cardinals in February 2016.

History of Australian rules football on the Gold Coast

Australian rules football on the Gold Coast, Queensland can be traced back to the Gold Coast Australian Football League that was established in 1961. The city's interest in the sport has been heavily linked to the Southport Australian Football Club, the Brisbane Football Club and more recently the Gold Coast Football Club. The highest form of the sport played on the Gold Coast is the Australian Football League's team the Gold Coast Football Club, who were admitted into the competition in 2011.

Darren Minchington is a former Australian rules football player who played with the St Kilda Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Alex Woodward is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He attended Mazenod College.

Keegan Brooksby is a professional Australian rules footballer who most recently played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played for South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League and was their best and fairest in 2014 before being selected in the 2015 rookie draft by Gold Coast. He was delisted at the end of 2016, re-drafted in the 2017 rookie draft and subsequently delisted again at the end of 2017.

Jesse Joyce (footballer) Australian rules footballer

Jesse Joyce is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Gold Coast Football Club with their sixth selection and sixty-seventh overall in the 2016 rookie draft. He made his debut in the thirty-eight point loss against Sydney in round 11, 2016 at Metricon Stadium.

Josh Schoenfeld Australian rules footballer

Joshua Schoenfeld is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Gold Coast Football Club with their third selection and thirty-fourth overall in the 2015 national draft.

The 2017 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 93rd season in the Australian Football League and 116th overall, the 18th season playing home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the 17th season playing home games at the newly named University of Tasmania Stadium, the 13th season under head coach Alastair Clarkson, and the 1st season with Jarryd Roughead as club captain. This was the first time since 2013 that Hawthorn didn't enter the season as the defending premiers.

Brad Scheer is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Max Spencer Australian rules footballer

Max Leslie Spencer is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Brayden Crossley is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Jacob Heron Australian rules footballer

Jacob Heron was a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Caleb Graham Australian rules footballer

Caleb Graham is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Hewago Paul Oea is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL).

References

  1. ↑ DAWSON’S FIRST GAME OF THE YEAR
  2. ↑ AFL Queensland: U18 Academy player facts and Vic Country Squad
  3. ↑ Gold Coast Suns academy product Jacob Dawson to make AFL debut against Hawthorn
  4. ↑ SUNS TV: Dawson talks GC Footy
  5. ↑ Ten Gold Coast Suns academy players named in under-18 Allies team
  6. ↑ Best of the best: Who is the Coast’s finest 2018 AFL talent?
  7. ↑ SUNS Rookie Duo
  8. ↑ Suns Academy mid to make debut against Hawks
  9. ↑ Whiting, Michael. "Suns slash seven: Former first-round pick delisted in brutal list cull". AFL.com.au. Retrieved 10 August 2022.



This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.