Billie Smedts (born 8 June 1992) is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was taken with Geelong's first pick (15th overall) in the 2010 AFL Draft. He hails from Warrnambool and played in the TAC Cup for the Geelong Falcons. He made his AFL debut for Geelong in the opening round of the 2012 AFL season against Fremantle at Patersons Stadium. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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