Justin McInerney (born 18 August 2000) is a professional

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who plays for the

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in the

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(AFL).

Early life

McInerney was raised in the northern suburbs of

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and participated in the

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program at

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. He was educated at Marcellin College and played junior football with the Northern Knights in the

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. McInerney was recruited by the

with the 44th draft pick in the

2018 AFL Draft The 2018 AFL draft consisted of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) traded and recruited players following the completion of the 2018 AFL season. For the first time, the AFL draft featured live trading ...

Family

Justin has two older siblings- Chris and Beck, and parents John and Lila.

AFL career

He made his debut against in round 4 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 ...

. McInerney received a Rising Star nomination for his performance against the

Melbourne Football Club The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons or colloquially the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier comp ...

in Round 15 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 that game McInerney kicked 2 goals, collected 14 disposals and took 5 marks.

Statistics

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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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Honours and achievements

Individual * 2× AFL Rising Star nominee: 2020 (round 15), 2021 (round 16)

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:McInerney, Justin 2000 births Living people Sydney Swans players Northern Knights players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) People educated at Marcellin College, Bulleen 21st-century Australian sportsmen