Nick Blakey (born 27 February 2000) is a professional

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 plays for the

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in the

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(AFL).

Early life

Blakey was born in

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. His father,

John Blakey John Blakey (born 24 July 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 359 games in the Australian Football League. Football career Playing Recruited from East Doncaster, Victoria, Blakey debuted for the Fitzroy Football Club in ...

, was a

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player and dual premiership midfielder for

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. He moved to

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with his family at two years of age, due to his father assistant coaching at

Brisbane Lions The Brisbane Lions is a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Melbourne-based 1883 foundation VFL c ...

, before settling in

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as a six-year-old when his father joined

coaching panel. He grew up in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and attended

Waverley College , motto_translation = Virtue alone ennobles , location = 131 Birrell Street , city = Waverley, New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Independent early learni ...

. Blakey participated in the

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program at East Sydney Bulldogs. In his final year of junior football, he scored 18 goals. Blakey had a choice of three possible clubs,

and the

through the father-son rule, and the

as a member of the Swans' Development Academy. In early 2018, Blakey revealed his preference was to play for the Sydney Swans. He was recruited by the

with the 10th draft pick in the

2018 AFL Draft The 2018 AFL draft consisted of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) traded and recruited players following the completion of the 2018 AFL season. For the first time, the AFL draft featured live trading ...

matching a bid from . Blakey received a

2019 AFL Rising Star The NAB AFL Rising Star award is given annually to a standout young player in the Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Com ...

nomination in round 14 of the

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, for his two goal effort against .

AFL career

On 5 June 2023, Blakey became the first player contracted until the 2030s with a seven year contract extension handed to him by the Sydney Swans.

Statistics

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Honours and achievements

Individual * AFL Rising Star nominee: 2019 (round 14)

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Blakey, Nick Living people 2000 births Sydney Swans players Australian rules footballers from Sydney People educated at Waverley College People from the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) UNSW-Eastern Suburbs Bulldogs players Australian rules footballers from Melbourne