St Kilda Football Club is pleased to announce it has secured Tom Lee through an AFL pre-draft selection deal with the GWS Giants, on the first day of the 2012 Gillette AFL Trade Period.
 
The 21 year old key forward played 21 games for Claremont this year including their 2012 Premiership victory, and kicked 60 goals in the WAFL Competition.
 
The Saints have agreed to a deal involving its P.12 at the 2012 AFL National Draft being traded to GWS Giants in exchange for Tom Lee, P.24 and P.43.
 
St Kilda Head of Football, Chris Pelchen said, “We are extremely pleased to have come to an arrangement with GWS for Tom Lee to join the Saints. Tom has had an outstanding season with Claremont, developing into one of the leading forwards in the WAFL competition."??

"Full credit to our List Manager, Ameet Bains and Recruiting Manager, Tony Elshaug on securing a player who is capable of playing senior football for the Saints in 2013, while also maintaining our position within the first 25 selections at this year's draft; a similar outcome to last year when the Club recruited Ahmed Saad and Terry Milera as pre-draft selections," Pelchen said.
 
West Australian born Lee said he was excited to join the Saints and is looking forward to making the most of the opportunity.
 
“I’m very surprised at how quickly being drafted has happened but I’m equally as excited,” Lee said.
 
“For now I want to hopefully put myself in good stead to have a solid preseason and I just want to play my role and play well for the Club.”
 
St Kilda Senior Coach Scott Watters said, “Tom is an exciting addition to our list.  At 195cm, talented mobile forwards are hard to come by so he is a great acquisition to our team.

"This was a break-out year for Tom where he developed into a dominant forward in the WAFL competition. He was also a key contributor in Claremont's premiership side.”
 
Tom Lee
?Recruited From: Claremont WAFL
Height: 195cm?Weight: 94kg
?DOB: 2nd January 1991 (21yo)
?WAFL Games: 46 Seniors?WAFL Goals: 82
Player honours: 2011 and 2012 Claremont FC Premiership teams
Draft history: 2008 AFL National Draft - Pick 60 (Adelaide Crows FC