Blake Acres is a professional

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er who plays for the

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in the

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(AFL), having previously played for and .

AFL career

Acres was selected with the 19th pick in the 2013 AFL Draft by . He made his debut in Round 7,

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, against Hawthorn, in a game in which St Kilda were defeated by 145 points. He earned the

AFL Rising Star The AFL Rising Star is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best young player in the Australian Football League (AFL) for the year. It was first presented in the 1993 season, and was won by Nathan Bu ...

nomination following a breakout performance against in Round 6, 2016. At the conclusion of the

2019 AFL season The 2019 AFL season was the 123rd season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season feature ...

, Acres was traded to , along with a number of draft picks, as part of a trade to get Bradley Hill to St Kilda. Acres made his debut for Fremantle during Round 4 of the

2020 AFL season The 2020 AFL season was the 124th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featur ...

in their clash against . Acres played seven games during 2020 due to a hamstring injury, disrupting his start to the season. Acres returned during the latter half of the season with strong form, averaging almost 25 disposals a game. Acres played 18 games in 2021 and played in Fremantle's 2022 finals campaign. Following the 2022 season, Acres sought to explore the trade market after being given a low-ball offer from Fremantle, and was traded to in exchange for a future third round draft pick. Acres immediately established a permanent wingman position in the Carlton team, and recorded career best numbers in disposals and rebounds. Acres made a memorable impact in the 2023 finals series, which was Carlton's first finals series after a club record nine-year drought: in the final quarter of the six-point elimination final win against Sydney, Acres made two diving saves for rushed behinds, and kicked a steadying goal to put Carlton 14 points ahead in the 22nd minute; and in the two-point semi-final win against Melbourne, he kicked the go-ahead goal with less than a minute remaining.

Statistics

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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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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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* * * * 1995 births Living people West Perth Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Western Australia St Kilda Football Club players Fremantle Football Club players Sandringham Football Club players Peel Thunder Football Club players Carlton Football Club players 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1990s-stub