Personal Life
McVeigh is married to Clementine McVeigh. On 25 July 2011 they had their first child, Luella who died barely a month later following serious heart complications.
In the first match since this tragedy, on 27 August 2011 the Swans caused one of the biggest upsets of the season knocking off Geelong on its home ground, where it had not lost in 1462 days. For Sydney, it was their first win at the venue for more than 12 years. Sydney and Geelong players wore black armbands in the match 'as a mark of respect for their absent co-captain Jarrad McVeigh and his wife Clementine'.
Essendon's Mark McVeigh, the older brother of Jarrad who had a baby daughter himself earlier this year, paid tribute to Luella by 'blowing a kiss to the heavens' following his team's dramatic seven-point win over Port Adelaide in the same round. Essendon's players also wore black armbands in their match in respect to Mark's niece.
It was confirmed in February 2012 that Jarrad and his wife Clementine were expecting another baby. The McVeighs' announced a safe arrival of their baby girl Lolita-Luella McVeigh who arrived into the world on 8 July 2012 at 3.17pm weighing in at 3.2 kg.
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