Jesse Joyce (footballer)

Jesse Joyce
Personal information
Full name	Jesse Joyce
Date of birth	(1997-08-17) 17 August 1997
Original team(s)	Palm Beach Currumbin (QAFL)
Draft	No. 67, 2016 rookie draft
Debut	Round 11, 2016, Gold Coast vs. Sydney, at Metricon Stadium
Height / weight	191 cm / 90 kg
Position(s)	Midfielder / Defender
Club information
Current club	Gold Coast
Number	38
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2016–	Gold Coast	11 (0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 2016.

Jesse Joyce (born 17 August 1997) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Gold Coast Football Club with their sixth selection and sixty-seventh overall in the 2016 rookie draft.^[1] He made his debut in the thirty-eight point loss against Sydney in round 11, 2016 at Metricon Stadium.^[2]

Early life and junior football

Joyce was born in Melbourne but moved to Tweed Heads on the Queensland-New South Wales border at the age of 2.^[3] He first played junior football on the Gold Coast for the Coolangatta Tweed Heads Australian Football Club before switching to the Palm Beach Currumbin Australian Football Club and making his senior debut at the age of 16. He also attended Palm Beach Currumbin High School in his teenage years.

He joined the Gold Coast Suns' academy at the age of 14^[4] and was drafted to his hometown team with the 67th pick in the 2016 AFL rookie draft.

Joyce made his AFL debut for the Gold Coast Suns against the Sydney Swans in round 11 of the 2016 AFL season.

* denotes rookie listed players

2016 AFL rookie draft

First round	1. Jesse Glass-McKasker 2. Jackson Paine 3. Tom Keough 4. Gach Nyuon 5. Nick O'Kearney 6. Josh Wagner 7. Lachlan Keeffe 8. Sam Reid 9. Jock Cornell 10. Will Snelling 11. Bradley Lynch 12. Callum Moore 13. Paul Hunter 14. Tom Papley 15. Farren Ray 16. Matt Uebergang 17. Jordan Snadden 18. Luke Surman

Second round	19. Andrew Gallucci 20. Reuben William 21. Darcy MacPherson 22. Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti 23. Nick Coughlan 24. Viv Michie 25. Josh Smith 26. Daniel Lloyd 27. James Parsons 28. Cameron Hewett 29. Luke Goetz 30. Maribor Chol 31. Jonathon Beech 32. Harrison Marsh 33. Majak Daw 34. Ryan Nyhuis 35. Brant Colledge 36. Kade Stewart

Third round	37. Matthew Korcheck 38. Ryan Davis 39. Will Hams 40. Josh Saunders 41. Joel Smith 42. Josh Thomas 44. Tom Ruggles 45. Dan Houston 46. Jed Adcock 47. Adam Marcon 48. Hugh Greenwood 50. Anthony Morabito 51. Alec Waterman 52. Alex Woodward 53. Cameron Loersch

Fourth round	54. Tom Wallis 55. Tim Golds 57. Kane Mitchell 58. Alex Keath 59. Kyle Galloway 60. Josh Deluca 61. Simon Tunbridge 62. Conor Glass

Fifth round	63. Danny Stanley 64. Darrean Wyatt 66. Sam Murray

Sixth round	67. Jesse Joyce 69. Colin O'Riordan

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