Nick Larkey (born 6 June 1998) is a professional

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er playing for the

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in the

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(AFL). He was drafted by North Melbourne with their fourth selection and seventy-third overall in the 2016 national draft. He made his debut against at

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in round eighteen of the 2017 season.

AFL career

Larkey was selected by North Melbourne with pick 73 in the 2016 AFL draft. Prior he played junior football for Hawthorn Citizens and Kew Comets in the YJFL, before progressing to

Oakleigh Chargers The Oakleigh Chargers is an Australian rules football club playing in the Talent League, the top statewide under-18 competition in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. They are based at Warrawee Park in Oakleigh, Victoria, representing the ...

in the

TAC Cup The Talent League (also known as the Coates Talent League under naming rights and previously as the NAB League and TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition based in Melbourne and run by the Australian Foot ...

. In 2018 Larkey won the VFL's leading goal-kicker award, the

Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal is awarded to the Victorian Football League player who kicks the most goals in home-and-away matches in that year. The is named in honour of Jim 'Frosty' Miller, who was the leading goalkicker of the Victorian Footbal ...

, after kicking 41 goals across 17 matches with the North Melbourne reserves team in that competition. Larkey received a 2019 AFL Rising Star nomination in round 16 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 ...

, for his five goal effort against at Blundstone Arena. In 2021, Larkey replaced Ben Brown as North’s key forward, playing 22 games that season and leading the team’s goal kicking tally with 42 goals. He followed that up with 38 goals in 2022 and 71 in 2023, putting him in the top three goalkickers for that year. Larkey kicked a career high nine goals against the Gold Coast in the final round of 2023. His good form in that year was rewarded with a five-year contract extension to 2029. Larkey was named in the All-Australian team in 2023.

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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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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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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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* * 1998 births Living people North Melbourne Football Club players Oakleigh Chargers players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) All-Australians (AFL) People educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew People from the City of Boroondara Australian sports podcasters 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1990s-stub