Jacob Heron (born 10 December 1999) is a professional
Australian rules footballer who played for the
Gold Coast Football Club
The Gold Coast Suns is 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.
The club has been playing in the AFL since the ...
in the
Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Heron was raised in
Cairns, Queensland and attended
St Augustine's College. He grew up playing his junior football for the Cairns Saints in the
AFL Cairns
AFL Cairns is a semi-professional Australian rules football league that includes clubs from the Cairns region in Queensland, Australia. It is widely regarded as the strongest regional Australian rules football league in Queensland and has a lar ...
competition. Towards the end of his junior football, he relocated to the Gold Coast as part of the
Gold Coast Suns Academy and began playing for
Palm Beach Currumbin as well as attending
Palm Beach Currumbin High School
Palm Beach Currumbin State High School (PBC High School or PBC) is an independent co-educational public school (government funded), in the Gold Coast suburb of Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. PBC is Queensland's southernmost coastal High sc ...
.
AFL career
Heron was named to make his AFL debut in round 9 of the
2018 AFL season against
Port Adelaide in
Shanghai, China
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...
.
Queenslander Jacob Heron to make history when he makes his AFL debut in China
/ref> He became the first player to make his AFL debut in a game played outside of Australia.
References
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1999 births
Living people
Gold Coast Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Queensland
Australian rules football players from Cairns
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