Carl Peterson (born 3 July 1987) is a former

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player with the Hawthorn Football Club in the

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. Peterson was also listed with the

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but did not play a game. More recently, Peterson played for the Perth Football League team SNESA. Peterson was born in Meekatharra, Western Australia, and moved to Kununurra when he was two before moving to

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to finish Year 12, where he trained and played football with the Clontarf Football Academy.

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recruited him into the Western Australian Football League (WAFL).Carl gets drafted
/ref> He played five games for Claremont in 2006, including two finals.

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originally drafted Peterson in the

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. He was a fourth-round pick, number 60 overall, but the Tigers delisted him at the end of the 2007 season without playing a game. Following this, he joined

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(NTFL) club St Mary's and was in the Saints' 2007/08 premiership side. He was then redrafted into the AFL by with the 61st overall of the 2009 Rookie Draft. He made his AFL debut in the opening round of the

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and performed well, kicking a goal and gathering 15 disposals in the first half before copping a heavy knock early in the second half. He played seventeen games for Hawthorn, all in 2010. In 2012, Peterson signed to play for the

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. He spent the previous year (2011) playing for Old Carey in the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Peterson, Carl Hawthorn Football Club players Box Hill Football Club players Claremont Football Club players St Mary's Football Club (NTFL) players Preston Football Club (VFA) players 1987 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Western Australia People from Meekatharra, Western Australia People from the Kimberley (Western Australia) Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football Darwin Football Club players