Cameron Zurhaar (born 22 May 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is the son of successful Perth businessman Stephen Zurhaar.[1] He attended school at Wesley College in South Perth.

He played junior football for Melville Hawks, part of the East Fremantle junior district.

AFL career

He was drafted by North Melbourne with their first selection and eleventh overall in the 2017 rookie draft.[2] He made his debut in the seventy-point loss to Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval in round 17 of the 2017 season.[3]

In a Round 7 win over Carlton in 2019, Zurhaar kicked a game-high 5 goals en route to winning the Round 7 Rising Star nomination. He finished his third season at the Kangaroos having kicked 26 goals across 19 games in a breakout season. His nickname amongst the North Melbourne supporter base is the 'Bull', in response to his ferocious attack on the football.

Zurhaar was North Melbourne's leading goalkicker for the Covid-19 affected 2020 AFL season kicking 18 goals across 16 games. His 18 goals remains the equal lowest tally to win North's leading goalkicker award, tying with Stewart Anderson's record set in 1937.

Round 18 of the 2022 AFL season saw Zurhaar kick a career high six goals during North Melbourne's four point win over Richmond.[4] He kicked his 100th AFL goal in the same match.[5]

His surname is of Dutch origin.[6]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of 2024[7]
Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game) Votes
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2017 North Melbourne 44 4 2 3 22 14 36 9 7 0.5 0.8 5.5 3.5 9.0 2.3 1.8 0
2018 North Melbourne 44 5 2 5 30 22 52 5 14 0.4 1.0 6.0 4.4 10.4 1.0 2.8 0
2019 North Melbourne 44 19 26 12 138 98 236 78 62 1.4 0.6 7.3 5.2 12.4 4.1 3.3 6
2020[a] North Melbourne 44 16 18 11 102 53 155 46 39 1.1 0.7 6.4 3.3 9.7 2.9 2.4 0
2021 North Melbourne 44 20 31 23 163 72 235 75 58 1.6 1.2 8.2 3.6 11.8 3.8 2.9 1
2022 North Melbourne 44 19 34 26 155 71 226 72 31 1.8 1.4 8.2 3.7 11.9 3.8 1.6 3
2023 North Melbourne 44 16 20 19 159 99 258 39 36 1.3 1.2 9.9 6.2 16.1 2.4 2.3 2
2024 North Melbourne 44 22 29 18 187 123 310 89 61 1.3 0.8 8.5 5.6 14.1 4.0 2.8 1
Career 121 162 117 956 552 1508 413 308 1.3 1.0 7.9 4.6 12.5 3.4 2.5 13

Notes

  1. ^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

  1. ^ "Stephen Zurhaar". Business News. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  2. ^ "East Fremantle product Cameron Zurhaar earning praise at North Melbourne". The West Australian. Seven West Media. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  3. ^ Bowen, Nick (13 July 2017). "Cameron Zurhaar to debut". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  4. ^ "AFL R18 match report: Six-goal Zurhaar leads Roos to epic victory". Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Zurhaar's career day to lift Roos to huge win".
  6. ^ "Cameron Zurhaar all smiles".
  7. ^ "Cameron Zurhaar's player profile at AFL Tables". afltables.com.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Zurhaar
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