Kevin Dyas

Kevin Dyas
Personal information
Sport	Gaelic Football
Position	Centre Forward
Born	(1987-10-26) 26 October 1987 Dromintee, Armagh, Northern Ireland
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Club(s)
Years	Club
2005-	Dromintee St Patrick's
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
2007, 2010-	Armagh
Inter-county titles
Ulster titles	2
NFL	1

Kevin Dyas (born 26 October 1987) is a Gaelic footballer from County Armagh and former player with Australian Football League team Collingwood.

Gaelic football

Dyas was an outstanding underage talent captaining Armagh GAA Minors to an Ulster Title in 2005. He was also instrumental in guiding his school, Abbey CBS to a MacRory Cup and first ever Hogan Cup title in 2006.

Dyas was a senior football panelist with Armagh in 2007 under Joe Kernan making his debut against Derry, and also played half back with Armagh club Dromintee.

Australian Rules Football

Dyas was scouted and recruited by Collingwood and became the second Irish player to be drafted by Collingwood after fellow Irishman Martin Clarke, but unlike Clarke, the club took a gamble with a more mature player in Dyas. Kevin lived with Collingwood's football operations manager Geoff Walsh and his family.^[1]

He played 13 games for Collingwood's reserves in the Victorian Football League and looked likely for a senior call-up after some good form, however a severe rupture of his hamstring ruled him out for the 2008 season. A recurrence of the hamstring injury in the 2009 pre-season ruled Dyas out of selection contention for the majority of his second season. Due to this run of hamstring trouble and homesickness he decided to return home after the 2009 season.

Return

In 2009, Dyas returned to Ireland and joined back up with Armagh GAA under the guidance of Down man Paddy O'Rourke.^[2]

Honours

1 Ulster Under-21 Football Championship 2007
1 Ulster Minor Football Championship 2005
1 National Football League Division 2 2010
1 MacRory Cup 2006
1 Hogan Cup 2006

References

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↑ "Pies lose second Irish recruit". Collingwoodfc.com.au. Retrieved 17 February 2015.

2008 AFL rookie draft

First round	1. Clayton Collard 2. Aaron Joseph 3. Trent Zomer 4. James Mulligan 5. Rhys Magin 6. Brent Connelly 7. Phil Smith 8. Glenn Chivers 9. James Moss 10. Matthew O'Dwyer 11. Hugh Sandilands 12. Lewis Stevenson 13. Luke Casey-Leigh 14. Nathan Grima 15. Nick Salter 16. Brodie Moles

Second round	17. Jarrod Silvester 18. Lachlan Hill 19. Austin Wonaeamirri 20. Henry White 21. Jarrod Atkinson 22. Luke Pratt 23. Pat Garner 24. Luke Miles 25. Jared Petrenko 26. Brendan Murphy 27. Tim Walsh 28. Ashley Arrowsmith 29. Kevin Dyas 30. Cruize Garlett 31. Daniel Boyle 32. Jeremy Laidler

Third round	33. Tristan Cartledge 34. David Ellard 35. Jake Spencer 36. John Shaw 37. Calib Mourish 38. Pearce Hanley 39. Andrew McQualter 40. Ed Curnow 41. Jake Orreal 42. Alex Grima 43. Will Sullivan 44. Alan Obst 45. Ryan Willits 46. Chris Kangars

Fourth round	47. Cameron Howat 48. Michael Shields 49. Shane Valenti 50. Ryley Dunn 51. Khan Haretuku 52. Brodie Martin 53. Matthew Beckmans 54. Cameron Stokes 55. Callum Wilson 56. Michael Wundke 57. Shane Mumford

Fifth round	58. Aaron Bruce 59. Beau Wilkes

Sixth round	60. James Wilsen 61. Dean Terlich 62. Ryan Davis

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