Jacob Weitering, an Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) is 196 cm / 6 ft 5 in / 1.96m tall.
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Born on 23 November 1997, Weitering participated in the Auskick program at Mt Martha and played junior football for the Mount Martha Junior Football Club, before playing for the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup.
At the 2015 AFL Under 18 Championships, where he was chosen for the under 18 All-Australian team, he captained Victoria Country.
He participated in the NAB AFL Academy in 2014 and 2015, and in 2015, his peers selected him to receive the Ben Mitchell Award as the player who best exemplified the AFL Academy’s core values.
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The Carlton Football Club selected him with the first pick in the 2015 national draft.
He made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in round 1, 2016 against Richmond. He had a solid debut with 17 disposals and 7 marks.
Following his impressive display against the Gold Coast Suns in which he had 26 disposals and took nine marks, he was named the 2016 AFL Rising Star nominee for round 3.
In 2020, after an impressive season, he was awarded the John Nicholls Medal as Carlton’s best and fairest player of the season.
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