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Jaryd Cachia (born 8 May 1991) is an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL).

The grandson of Terry Benton, Cachia played school football for St Kevin's College before joining the Northern Knights. He co-captained the Victorian Metropolitan Under 16s team with Tom Scully in the national competition. He played his first TAC Cup game for the Knights at the age of 16 in 2007, eventually playing 21 games for the Knights over three years.

AFL career

Cachia was drafted by the Carlton Football Club with its first round selection in the 2010 AFL rookie draft (No. 15 overall). He spent two seasons playing in the senior team of Carlton's VFL-affiliate, the Northern Bullants, but did not play an AFL game for Carlton during this time. At the conclusion of the 2011 Australian Football League season, Cachia was delisted by the Carlton Football Club.

After being delisted, Cachia played for Norwood in the South Australian National Football League in 2012; Cachia finished in the top five for the Magarey Medal and was part of Norwood's premiership team. After the season, Carlton re-drafted Cachia to the AFL with its first round selection in the 2013 AFL Rookie Draft (No. 9 overall).

Cachia made his senior AFL debut for Carlton in Round 6, 2013, and played regularly for most of the rest of the season, managing a total of fourteen games. He remained on the Carlton list in 2014, but did not play another senior game and was delisted at the end of the year.

Post AFL career

Since leaving the AFL system, Cachia has played for the Richmond reserves in the VFL (2015), another stint at Norwood (2016), Strathmore (2017–18) and Aberfeldie (2019) in the Essendon District Football League, Golden Square in the Bendigo Football League (where he signed in 2020 but never played because the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and St Kevin's Old Boys in the VAFA (2021).

References

1. ^ Carlton Blues Rookie player list Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ Carlton Football Club 2010 Rookie Draftees Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
3. Jon Anderson (13 November 2009) Cahia no certainty after scaling great heights
4. Sportingpulse statistics for Jaryd Cachia
5. "Changes to the Carlton list - Official AFL Website of the Carlton Football Club". Archived from the original on 19 November 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
6. "Carlton secures Collins and Cachia". Carlton Football Club. 11 December 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
7. Guthrie, Ben (4 May 2013). "Carrazzo out, Cachia in". Carlton Football Club. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
8. "Four more Blues delisted". 2 September 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
9. "2015 Peter Jackson VFL fixture". Port Melbourne Football Club. 18 December 2014. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
10. "VFL 2016 ins and outs". Victorian Football League. 18 February 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
11. Luke d'Anello (4 February 2019). "Jaryd Cachia explains why he crossed to Aberfeldie". Mooney Valley Leader. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
12. "Jaryd Cachia returns to St Kevins". St Kevin's Old Boys Football Club. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

External links

Jaryd Cachia's profile on the official website of the Carlton Football Club

• Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
• Carlton Football Club players
• Preston Football Club (VFA) players
• Norwood Football Club players
• 1991 births
• Living people
• People educated at St Kevin's College, Melbourne
• Northern Knights players
• St Mary's Football Club (NTFL) players
• 21st-century Australian sportsmen