Clay Cameron (born 27 May 1994) 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

Cameron was born and raised in

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, where he attended

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. He first played sport at six years of age when he joined

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and would later become a hot prospect in the track and field. In 2004-05 he would pick up two national titles in Discus but gave athletics away two years later to focus on football. Cameron grew up supporting the

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Junior football

Cameron played his junior football at the Mount Gravatt Australian Football Club from the under 10s level. He progressed through the junior ranks at Mount Gravatt and was voted the second best player at the 2009 Australian Under-15 Schoolboys Championships before falling victim to

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which kept him sidelined for the entire 2010 season. He returned in 2011 to solidify a place in the under 18 Queensland team and the Mount Gravatt seniors as a key forward. Cameron continued with his ways in the 2012 season before being told he would be taken by the

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in the

2012 AFL draft The 2012 AFL draft consisted of five opportunities for player acquisitions during the 2012/13 Australian Football League off-season. These were: *2012 trade period; which was held between 1 October and 26 October, and for the first time incorp ...

as a Queensland zone selection. He was taken with the 58th pick in the draft.

AFL career

Cameron made his AFL debut against Richmond in round 1 of the 2014 season. At the conclusion of the 2016 season, he was delisted by Gold Coast.

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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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Clay 1994 births Living people Gold Coast Football Club players Mount Gravatt Football Club players Redland Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Brisbane