Tom Keough

Last updated

Tom Keough
Personal information
Full name Thomas Keough
Date of birth (1991-10-10) 10 October 1991 (age 32)
Place of birth Pinnaroo, South Australia
Original team(s) Pinnaroo Supa Roos
Height 194 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 91 kg (201 lb)
Other occupation PE Teacher
Playing career
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2012–2015 West Adelaide 59 (23)
2016 Gold Coast Suns Reserves 14 (1)
2017–2022 West Adelaide 82 (73)
Total155 (97)
Representative team honours
YearsTeamGames (Goals)
2015, 2018, 2022 South Australia 3 (0)
Total3 (0)
Career highlights
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Tom Keough (born 10 October 1991) is an Australian rules football player. He is captain of the West Adelaide Football Club in 2018.

Keough grew up in the Murray Mallee and played junior football for the Pinnaroo Supa Roos in the Mallee Football League. He was recruited to the West Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and played in its 2015 premiership side. In the 2016 AFL rookie draft he was selected by the Gold Coast Suns. He returned to West Adelaide after the 2016 season. [1]

Keough won the Fos Williams Medal as the best South Australian player in their Inter-State match in 2015 against Western Australia. [2]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adelaide Football Club</span> Australian rules football club

The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia that was founded in 1990. The Crows have fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1991, and a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition since 2017. The club's offices and training facilities are located in the western Adelaide suburb of West Lakes, at the site of the club's former home ground Football Park. Since 2014 Adelaide have played home matches at the Adelaide Oval, a 53,500-seat stadium located on the northern bank on the River Torrens in North Adelaide.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shaun Burgoyne</span> Australian rules footballer, born 1982

Shaun Playford Burgoyne is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mallee Football League (South Australia)</span>

The Mallee Football League (MFL) was an Australian rules football competition in South Australia. The league comprised teams located in south eastern South Australia and one team (Murrayville) located in western Victoria.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jonathon Griffin</span> Australian rules footballer

Jonathon Griffin is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club and Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A ruckman from Western Australia, Griffin played for East Fremantle in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) before being drafted by Adelaide at the 2005 Rookie draft. Upgraded to the club's senior list for the 2007 season, he debuted the following season, and played 41 games for Adelaide before being traded to Fremantle during the 2010–11 trading period.

Thomas Logan is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gold Coast Suns</span> Australian rules football club

The Gold Coast Suns, officially the Gold Coast Football Club, are a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club is based on Queensland's Gold Coast in the suburb of Carrara.

Greg Broughton is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club and Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

John Butcher, is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was the earliest of the three Port Adelaide players drafted in the first round of the 2009 AFL Draft. Butcher's younger brother, Danny, was drafted to Port Adelaide as part of the 2011 Rookie Draft at pick 21.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Seb Tape</span> Australian rules footballer

Seb Tape is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by with pick 13 in the 2010 national draft. He made his debut in Gold Coast's first game, playing against Carlton in round 2 of 2011 season. Tape was a member of the Gold Coast Suns' inaugural squad, starting the game in the back pocket. In this game he collected 11 disposals, also accumulating 8 marks and 3 tackles. Tape attended Westminster School in Adelaide, where he was School Captain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alex Keath</span> Australian rules footballer

Alexander Robin Keath is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League. He formerly played professional cricket for Victoria in Australian domestic cricket.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matthew Wright (Australian footballer)</span> Australian rules footballer

Matthew Wright is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide and the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected with pick #33 in the 2010 Rookie Draft from North Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Boston</span> Australian rules footballer

Andrew Boston is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected with the 55th pick in the 2013 rookie draft.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tom Barrass</span> Australian rules footballer

Thomas Barrass is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He has played as a key defender since his junior career with Claremont. Barrass was drafted by West Coast with pick 43 of the 2013 national draft, but did not make his senior debut until round 17 of the 2015 AFL season. He was nominated for the 2016 AFL Rising Star and won a premiership with West Coast in 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nick Holman</span> Australian rules footballer

Nicholas Holman is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Carlton Football Club from 2014 to 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Connor Blakely</span> Australian rules footballer

Connor Blakely is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Riley Bonner</span> Australian rules footballer

Riley Bonner currently plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Port Adelaide with their first selection, thirty-seventh overall, in the 2015 national draft showcasing his skills for the West Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Bonner made his debut in the twenty-three point win against Gold Coast in round 23, 2016, at Metricon Stadium.

William Alexander Snelling is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Jason Horne-Francis is an Indigenous professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League, having been initially selected by the North Melbourne Football Club as the number one pick in the 2021 AFL draft. As a junior, Horne-Francis played senior-level football for the South Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League and the Christies Beach Football Club in the Southern Football League.

References

  1. Keam, Patrick (15 January 2018). "Former Gold Coast rookie Tom Keough to captain West Adelaide". CoastCity Weekly Messenger. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  2. Capel, Andrew (15 November 2015). "AFL draft 2015: Mature-aged Tom Keough is ready to fire". Adelaide Advertiser. Retrieved 9 August 2018.