Jake Neade (born 29 May 1994) 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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who last played for the

Port Adelaide Football Club Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where it is nicknamed the ...

in the

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(AFL).

Early life

Of Jingili

Indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. The ...

heritage and born and raised in

Elliott, Northern Territory Elliott ( Jingili: ''Kulumindini'') is a town in Northern Territory of Australia. It is almost halfway between Darwin and Alice Springs on the Stuart Highway. The town is in the Yapurkulangu ward of the Barkly Region. At the 2021 census, Elli ...

, he made the move in his mid teens down to Victoria where he attended school at

St Patrick's College, Ballarat St Patrick's College, sometimes referred to as St Pat's, Paddy's or SPC, is an independent Catholic secondary day and boarding school for boys, located in central Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The school was founded by the Congregation of Chr ...

where he shone as a real talent in the school's first XVIII, winning the Herald Sun Shield 3 times in 3 years. He was traded to Port Adelaide during the 2012 trade week from .He was able to be traded by Greater Western Sydney as they had zoned player access to all Northern Territory players Neade is a midfielder/forward known for his attack and creativity with the ball and strong tackling. He won the Harrison Medal (Division 2 best and fairest) and achieved All-Australian honours in the 2012 AFL Under 18 Championships averaging 18.4 disposals and 3.6 tackles. Neade arrived at Port Adelaide as their smallest player weighing in at 67 kg and being 170 cm tall.

AFL career

Neade made his unofficial debut with the Power in the 2013 NAB Cup opener against St Kilda showing bursts of speed, poise in close and a frenetic work-rate. He totaled 8 disposals and 1 goal in a half of football. He played his first official AFL match in the opening round of the

2013 AFL season The 2013 AFL season was the 117th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eig ...

against

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at the

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in Port's 79-point victory. For Round 13, 2013, Neade was awarded a NAB rising star nomination.

Statistics

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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Neade, Jake 1994 births Living people Port Adelaide Football Club players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) Greater Western Victoria Rebels players Australian rules footballers from the Northern Territory Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football 21st-century Indigenous Australian people People educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat Australia international rules football team players 21st-century Australian sportsmen