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Australia to Auburn, now Detroit? Punter hoping to turn his Plan B into Lions' Plan A

The Australian punter worked on ball placement and power during his first summer in America. Montgomery Advertiser

Arryn Siposs was 22 years old when his once-promising Australian Football League career came to an end.

He had been drafted days before his 18th birthday by the St. Kilda Saints, the club he grew up rooting for. But he was delisted after undergoing three reconstructions on his left shoulder in four AFL seasons.

He spent the next 18 months playing for a lower-level team in Williamstown, hoping to get another chance in the AFL. When he decided to return to college and pursue a career as a teacher, he also remembered a letter he had received years earlier from Nathan Chapman’s fledgling training program, Prokick Australia.