Jamie Merillo (born 27 November 1972) is an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played for the
Fremantle Dockers
The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of Fr ...
between
1995
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and
1997
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. He was drafted from
Claremont Claremont may refer to:
Places Australia
*Claremont, Ipswich, a heritage-listed house in Queensland
* Claremont, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart
* Claremont, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
** Claremont Football Club, West Australian Footba ...
in the
WAFL as a foundation selection in the
1994 AFL Draft and played mainly as a rover.
Merillo broke his jaw in Fremantle's inaugural AFL match in 1995, but still managed to play 11 games that year. After only 4 more game in the next two seasons, he was delisted at the end of the 1997 season.
He was also a very good swimmer who competed in the backstroke finals of the Australian team qualifying trials for the
Barcelona Olympics.
[''Football Record'', Vol 84, No. 20, Round 20: August, 1995]
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1972 births
Fremantle Football Club players
Claremont Football Club players
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
West Perth Football Club players
Subiaco Football Club players
Peel Thunder Football Club players