Lochie O'Brien (born 18 September 1999) is a former professional

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er who played for the

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in the

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(AFL).

Early life and junior career

Lochie grew up in rural

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and played junior football for the South Mildura Football Club. Growing up a Collingwood fan, his grandfather

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played one senior game for Collingwood in

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

. Lochie had a promising athletics career growing up, breaking regional records in the 400 and 1500m categories and eventually breaking the state's school record with a time of 51.06 seconds. His impressive sporting background gave him the opportunity to attend

Geelong Grammar School Geelong Grammar School is a private Anglican co-educational boarding and day school. The school's main campus is located in Corio on the northern outskirts of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, overlooking Corio Bay and Limeburners Bay. Establ ...

. It was not long before he was picked up by the

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of the

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AFL career

O'Brien was drafted by Carlton with its second selection (No. 10 overall) in the 2017 national draft. He made his debut in Round 4, 2018 against at

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, and the following week was given a contract extension to the end of 2021. O'Brien played regular senior football in his first two seasons, appearing in 35 of 44 matches, before falling out of favour and playing only six across in 2020 and 2021. He was demoted from the club's senior list to its rookie list for the 2022 season. At the end of 2023 AFL season he was delisted from the Carlton Football Club. O'Brien was a member of Wangaratta Rovers' 2024

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premiership team and is playing with them in 2025 too.

Statistics

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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* 1999 births Living people Carlton Football Club players Bendigo Pioneers players Northern Bullants players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) People educated at Geelong Grammar School 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1990s-stub