Cody Grace (born 19 March 1996) is an Australian professional

Canadian football Canadian football () is a team sport, sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's sco ...

punter for the

Calgary Stampeders The Calgary Stampeders are a professional Canadian football team based in Calgary, Alberta. The Stampeders compete in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The club plays its home games at McMahon Stadium and are the third-old ...

of the

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(CFL).

Early life

Grace grew up in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

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, where he attended

Warwick Senior High School Warwick Senior High School is a public co-educational high day school, located in Warwick, a northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Founded in 1981, the school provides education to approximately 900 students from Year 7 to Year 12. Spe ...

and played

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

College career

Grace played

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for the

Arkansas State Red Wolves The Arkansas State Red Wolves are the athletic teams of Arkansas State University. They are a member of the Sun Belt Conference in all sports except women's bowling, a sport not sponsored by that league, competing at the National Collegiate Athleti ...

from 2017 to 2019.

Professional career

Grace was drafted in the first round, seventh overall by the

in the 2021 CFL Global Draft and signed with the team on 11 May 2021. Following

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training camp, he won the job as the team's punter and played in his first career professional game on 7 August 2021, against the

Toronto Argonauts The Toronto Argonauts (officially the Toronto Argonaut Football Club and colloquially known as the Argos) are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL), based in Toronto, Ontario ...

. He played in 14 regular season games and had 78 punts with a 45.6-yard average. He was named a CFL Western All-Star at the end of the year and became the first Global player to win the award.

References

External links

Calgary Stampeders bio
1996 births Living people American football punters Arkansas State Red Wolves football players Australian emigrants to Canada Australian emigrants to the United States Australian expatriate sportspeople in Canada Australian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Australian players of American football Australian players of Canadian football Calgary Stampeders players Canadian football punters Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia {{Canadianfootball-bio-stub