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Josh Battle

Australian rules footballer

Josh Battle (born 1 September 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was originally drafted by St Kilda Football Club with their second selection and thirty-ninth overall in the 2016 national draft.

He made his debut in the sixty-one point loss to Essendon at Etihad Stadium in round seventeen of the 2017 season. Battle joined Hawthorn as an unrestricted free agent following the 2024 AFL season and won an All Australian Blazer in his first year at Hawthorn. Battle played his junior football for Hallam Hawks football club and Narre South Lions in the South East Juniors. Battle was a Hawthorn supporter as a child. Before committing to AFL, Battle was a talented cricketer as a junior receiving a cricket scholarship to Haileybury College. He also played in the Victorian Under-17 side. Battle eventually chose AFL after he was selected by the AIS/AFL Academy. On his choice, Battle stated that "in Year 10, when footy was starting to ramp up with bottom-age Stingrays and trying to play cricket, I knew I couldn't do both, because it was just too hard on the body.

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