Zach Tuohy

Who is Zach Tuohy?

Zach Tuohy is an Australian rules footballer for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League. Tuohy previously played Gaelic football.

Tuohy began his sporting career as a Gaelic footballer at the Portlaoise club. He became a regular in Laois underage county sides. He won a Leinster Minor Football Championship with them in 2007.

Tuohy attracted the attention of Australian rules football recruiters from the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League, a club based in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. During 2009, Tuohy travelled to Melbourne to undergo a four-week trial with the club. The club was sufficiently impressed, and offered Tuohy an International Rookie contract. This contract ensured Tuohy would be recruited by Carlton; he was then selected with the club's sixth round selection in the 2010 AFL rookie draft as a formality. Tuohy became the fourth Irish player to spend time on the Carlton list.

Tuohy began the 2010 season playing in the club's VFL-affiliate, the Northern Bullants. He developed as a tagger, and then as a rebounding half-back. He became noted for his long, accurate kicking, a trait he had also shown in Gaelic football, in which he was his county's designated kicker for 50m penalty kicks. He was temporarily elevated to the senior list in place of the injured Luke Mitchell in early 2011, and he made his AFL debut in Round 11 against Port Adelaide. He played eleven games for the season, and represented Ireland in the 2011 International Rules Series.