Height: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Weight 91 kg Role American football player | Name Josh Bartel Roster status: Active Positions Punter | |
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Date of birth: (1985-04-23) April 23, 1985 (age 30) Place of birth: Wodonga, Victoria, Australia Profiles | ||
Hamilton cfl punter josh bartel news story
Josh Bartel (born April 23, 1985) is a professional Canadian football punter for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League. Bartel played for the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League.
Contents
- Hamilton cfl punter josh bartel news story
- Australian Rules Football career
- Professional career
- Personal life
- References
Before going to the CFL, Bartel played Australian Rules Football for the Wodonga Football Club.
Australian Rules Football career
In June 2010, Bartel quit Wodonga to pursue a gridiron football career in North America.
Professional career
Bartel joined the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League in 2012 after leaving Australia and failing to make a National Football League team. Under rules in place at the time, Bartel was considered a "non-import" player because he received his football training in Canada. The rules changed after May 31 2014, but Bartel was grandfathered in as a "National Player".
In 2012, his first season in the CFL, Bartel punted for 4,985 yards on 116 punts, an average of 43.0 yards per punt, and was named an East Division All-Star.
In 2013, Bartel punted for 4,897 yards on 112 punts, bringing his average up to 43.7 yards per punt. Bartel was again named an East Division All-Star in 2013.
In February 2014, Bartel was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The 2014 season saw him punt for 4,616 yards on 106 punts, an average of 43.5 yards per punt.
He returned to Australia for the 2015 season, but on January 21, 2016 the Saskatchewan Roughriders announced that they had signed a contract to play for the 2016 season. He punted 134 times for 6,046 yards, an average of 45.1 yards per punt.
On March 1, 2017, Bartel signed a contract extension with the Roughriders that carries through the 2019 CFL season.
Personal life
In Australia, Bartel had a job lined up selling car tires but instead came to Canada to punt in the CFL.