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Adam Hartlett (born 22 April 1986) is an
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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played for Carlton in the
Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...
(AFL). After graduating from Sacred Heart College in 2003, Hartlett was recruited as the number 25 draft pick in the 2004 AFL draft from West Adelaide by the
Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park (stadium), Princes Park in Carlton North, Victoria, Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The c ...
. Hartlett played for Carlton's , the
Northern Bullants The Northern Bullants are a semi-professional Australian rules football club that currently competes in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The club, which is based in the Melbourne suburb of Preston, plays its home games at Preston City Ov ...
, in both reserves and seniors through 2005 and 2006, suffering several injury setbacks. Following strong performances with the Bullants seniors in early 2007, he made his debut for Carlton in Round 9. He was a member of the Bullants' losing grand final team in 2009. His brother,
Hamish Hamish is a Scottish masculine given name. It is the anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name '' Seamus'' or ''Sheumais''. It is therefore, the equivalent of James. People Given name * Hamish Bennett, retired New Zealand cricke ...
, is a former player for Port Adelaide.R. Homfra
The Advertiser
"Hamish and Adam to line up for Westies", 1 April 2010, Retrieved 4 September 2010
Hartlett has played both back and forward in key positions, both with the Bullants and Blues. However, his development and career were hampered by recurring hamstring injuries. He was delisted by the Blues at the end of the 2009 seaso

and returned to West Adelaide in 2010. Hartlett went onto become the senior coach of the
West Adelaide Football Club West Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Nicknamed the Bloods and commonly known as the Westies, the club's home base is Richmond Oval (currently known as Hisens ...
.


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Adam Hartlett at the Carlton Football Club website
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Adam Hartlett profile in Blueseum
1986 births Carlton Football Club players West Adelaide Football Club players Northern Bullants players Australian rules footballers from South Australia Living people People educated at Sacred Heart College (Adelaide) 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1980s-stub