Timothy Kelly (born 26 July 1994) is a professional

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er playing for the

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in the

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(AFL). He formerly played for the

Geelong Football Club The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Kardinia Park in South Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier comp ...

between 2018 and 2019.

Early life and WAFL career

Kelly is from

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and played his junior football for

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. He has an

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father and a Chilean mother. He made his senior WAFL debut for the

South Fremantle Football Club South Fremantle Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Fremantle, Western Australia. The club plays in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) and the WAFL Women's (WAFLW), commonly going by the nickname the ''Bulldogs ...

in 2013. He was runner-up in the club's best and fairest in 2014. During the 2017 WAFL season he finished runner-up in the

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to Haiden Schloithe. Before being drafted into the AFL, Kelly was an apprentice electrician. His partner/fiancée is Caitlin Miller and they have three sons.

AFL career

Geelong (2018–2019)

Kelly was drafted by Geelong with their second selection and twenty-fourth overall in the 2017 national draft as an over-age draftee. He made his debut in the three-point win against at the

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in the opening round of the 2018 season. At the 2018

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Awards, he was voted Best First Year Player by fellow players. At the end of the 2018 season, Kelly requested a trade to the

, but Geelong refused to trade him. In 2019, Kelly made his first All-Australian selection and finished top 5 in the

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, and helped Geelong reach the preliminary final. Following the season, he once again requested a trade to the Eagles, which was completed on 9 October 2019.

West Coast Eagles (2020–)

Kelly joined West Coast on a six-year deal valued at more than $4 million.

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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2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, Tim 1994 births Living people Geelong Football Club players South Fremantle Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football 21st-century Indigenous Australian people Australian people of Chilean descent Sportspeople of Chilean descent West Coast Eagles players All-Australians (AFL) 21st-century Australian sportsmen