Joshua William Pollard (born 20 October 1988) is a

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

player from Australia.

Career

Club

In the

Hockey Victoria Hockey Victoria (HV) is the governing body for the sport of field hockey in Victoria, Australia. It is responsible for the administration of intrastate competitions, state representative teams, officials and the financial position of the sport. It ...

competition, before his move to

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 i ...

to join the

Hockey Australia Hockey Australia is an organisation that formed from the merger of the Australian Hockey Association and Women's Hockey Australia in 2000. It is the national body responsible for the promotion, development and administration of field hockey in A ...

High Performance Program, Pollard played club hockey for Greensborough Hockey Club in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

Domestic leagues

Australian Hockey League

Throughout his Australian Hockey League (AHL) career, Pollard represented his home state,

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

. He made his debut for the VIC Vikings in 2006, playing every year until the tournament folded in 2018. In his 13-season career for the Vikings, Pollard won two titles, in

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...

and

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...

Hockey One

In 2019, Pollard was named in the HC Melbourne team to participate in the inaugural tournament of

's new domestic national league,

Hockey One The Sultana Bran Hockey One is a field hockey competition organised by Hockey Australia, which replaced the Australian Hockey League. The competition serves as Australia's premier domestic hockey league, helping unearth future talent for select ...

National teams

Under–21

Joshua Pollard made his debut for the '

Burras Burras is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, approximately five miles (8 km) south of Redruth on the B3297 road.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' It is in the civil parish of St Gluvias St Gluv ...

' in 2007 during a five match test series against the Malaysian U–21 team in

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ...

. Following this, he also represented the side at an eight nations tournament in

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. In 2008, Pollard represented the side at the Junior Oceania Cup, where they won a gold medal and qualified to the Junior World Cup. At the 2009 Junior World Cup in

and

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

, Pollard was a member of the team that won a bronze medal.

Kookaburras

Following a standout performance at the 2016 AHL, Pollard made his debut for the

Kookaburras Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers of the genus ''Dacelo'' native to Australia and New Guinea, which grow to between in length and weigh around . The name is a loanword from Wiradjuri ''guuguubarra'', onomatopoeic of its call. The ...

at the

2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy The 2016 Trans-Tasman Trophy was a field hockey tournament contested by men's and women's field hockey teams from Australia and New Zealand. The tournament was held in the New Zealand city of Auckland, at the Lloyd Elsmore Hockey Stadium. At th ...

. In 2017, Pollard was named the national squad for the first time prior to the International Hockey Open in Darwin. Pollard has not represented Australia since the 2017 International Festival of Hockey in

References

External links

* * 1988 births Living people Australian male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Field hockey players from Melbourne Sportsmen from Victoria (state) {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub