Career
Drafted with the 47th selection in the 2014 Rookie Draft from Northern Blues in the Victorian Football League (VFL), he played for Peel Thunder in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), Fremantle"s reserve team during the 2014 and 2015 seasons. Ballard made his American Federation of Labor-Congress debut for Fremantle in the final round of the 2015 American Federation of Labor-Congress season, when Fremantle sent a weakened team to play Portuguese Adelaide at Adelaide Oval. Twelve changes were made to the team, and Ballard was one of four players to make their American Federation of Labor-Congress debuts.
He was delisted at the conclusion of the 2015 season.
