Full name Heath Hocking Current club Essendon Career start 2006 Position(s) Midfielder Weight 87 kg | Height/Weight 186cm / 88kg Height 1.84 m Draft #20, 2006 rookie draft Name Heath Hocking | |
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Date of birth (1987-12-27) 27 December 1987 (age 28) Role Australian Rules Footballer Profiles | ||
Original team Eastern Ranges, TAC Cup | ||
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Heath Hocking (born 27 December 1987) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Originally from Mooroolbark, he was drafted by Essendon with the 20th selection in the 2006 rookie draft from Eastern Ranges in TAC Cup. He was elevated to the main list in 2007, playing one game late in the 2007 season.
Hocking is a solid and hard-at-it midfielder, who primarily plays a defensive tagging role on opposition midfielders. He finished second in the Essendon's best and fairest award, the Crichton Medal, in 2010 and fifth in 2011.
His father, Graham Hocking played one game for South Melbourne in 1971 and his older brother Evan has played in the Victorian Football League for Port Melbourne Football Club.
Hocking, along with 33 other Essendon players, was found guilty of using a banned performance-enhancing substance, thymosin beta-4, as part of Essendon's sports supplements program during the 2012 season. He and his teammates were initially found not guilty in March 2015 by the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal, but a guilty verdict was returned in January 2016 after an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency. He was suspended for two years which, with backdating, ended in November 2016; as a result, he served approximately fourteen months of his suspension and missed the entire 2016 AFL season.
With the retirements of Jobe Watson and Brent Stanton at the end of the 2017 AFL season, Hocking was the last player remaining on the Essendon playing list to be coached by Kevin Sheedy until he was delisted in September 2017.