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Full name | Joshua William Pollard | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Melbourne, Victoria | 20 October 1988||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2006–2019 | VIC Vikings | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2019– | HC Melbourne | ||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
2007–2009 | Australia U–21 | 34 | (14) | ||||||||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Australia | 28 | (4) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Joshua William Pollard (born 20 October 1988) [1] is a field hockey player from Australia. [2]
In the Hockey Victoria competition, before his move to Perth to join the Hockey Australia High Performance Program, Pollard played club hockey for Greensborough Hockey Club in Melbourne. [2]
Throughout his Australian Hockey League (AHL) career, Pollard represented his home state, Victoria. [3] He made his debut for the VIC Vikings in 2006, [4] playing every year until the tournament folded in 2018. [5] In his 13-season career for the Vikings, Pollard won two titles, in 2016 and 2017. [6] [7]
In 2019, Pollard was named in the HC Melbourne team to participate in the inaugural tournament of Hockey Australia's new domestic national league, Hockey One. [5]
Joshua Pollard made his debut for the 'Burras' in 2007 during a five match test series against the Malaysian U–21 team in Queensland. Following this, he also represented the side at an eight nations tournament in Malaysia. [8]
In 2008, Pollard represented the side at the Junior Oceania Cup, where they won a gold medal and qualified to the Junior World Cup. [9]
At the 2009 Junior World Cup in Malaysia and Singapore, Pollard was a member of the team that won a bronze medal. [10] [11]
Following a standout performance at the 2016 AHL, Pollard made his debut for the Kookaburras at the 2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy. [12]
In 2017, Pollard was named the national squad for the first time prior to the International Hockey Open in Darwin. [13] [14] Pollard has not represented Australia since the 2017 International Festival of Hockey in Melbourne. [15]
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