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Kurt Tippett
Kurt Anthony Tippett (born 8 May 1987) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club and the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Tippett represented Queensland in under-18 basketball before transferring to Australian rules football and playing for the Southport Football Club in the Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL). He was selected by Adelaide in the 2006 AFL draft.
Tippett was born in Sydney, New South Wales[citation needed] but moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland at two months of age.[citation needed] He is the brother of former AFL player Joel Tippett and professional Netball player Gretel Bueta.[citation needed] Tippett attended All Saints Anglican College during his high school years[citation needed] where he first trialed Australian rules football in an inter-school sports tournament in 2004.[citation needed] His first love was basketball however and at eleven years of age,[citation needed] and made his representative debut for the Gold Coast.[citation needed] In 2004, he represented Queensland in the under 18 championships[citation needed] and was given a spot on the Brisbane Bullets development squad.[citation needed] While competing in the under 18 championships, Tippett competed against the likes of Patrick Mills, Joe Ingles and future AFL player Scott Pendlebury.[citation needed] He also toured the United States with the Queensland Academy of Sport team.[citation needed]
Upon returning from the United States, he accepted an offer from the Gold Coast Stingrays to try out for their Australian rules football representative team.[citation needed] He made the team and they went on to be crowned state champions.[citation needed] Following the victory he joined Southport for their 2005 season and after a few games in the reserves he made his seniors debut at the Gabba against the Brisbane Lions reserves team and matched up on AFL premiership player Jamie Charman.[citation needed] Kurt would end 2005 with Southport's reserves best and fairest award while playing in ten senior matches for the season.[citation needed] He then went on to represent Queensland in the 2006 AFL Under 18 Championships where they would go undefeated through the tournament to win the division two title.[citation needed] He would also be the second highest goal kicker during Southport's 2006 premiership winning season.[citation needed]
Tippett was drafted by the Adelaide Football Club with the thirty-second pick in the 2006 AFL draft. He made his debut in round one in the 2008 season against Western Bulldogs at the Telstra Dome. Playing as a key forward and ruckman, he became a regular in the side, but was often criticized for his inaccurate kicking at goal. At the Crows Club Champion evening, he received a 2008 Rising Star Nomination.
By the next season, Tippett had begun to develop into a potent tall forward. A bag of seven goals and a high mark against Essendon in round 11 showed his potential to become the high-scoring key forward that Adelaide had lacked since the departure of Tony Modra, and with successive bags of five against Richmond and Fremantle he showed he could perform on a regular basis. He finished the home-and-away season with forty-seven goals, second behind only Jason Porplyzia – with fifty-two goals – in the club's goalkicking. He kicked eight more goals in the finals to finish with fifty-five for the year. His sixty-metre goal from the boundary line gave Adelaide a one-point lead against Collingwood in the last minute of the 2009 semi final; however, this went in vain as opposing forward Jack Anthony restored Collingwood's lead seconds later, resulting in a loss.
In 2009. he signed a three-year deal with Adelaide, preventing the soon-to-be Gold Coast club from recruiting him as one of their un-contracted player signings. In 2010 Tippett was Adelaide's leading goalkicker.
On 6 October 2012, it was announced Tippett had requested a trade to the Sydney Swans. Criticism was later heard from many people, two of which were Crows legend Mark Ricciuto, who said that Tippett was a money driver and former Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett who angrily said the Swans should be stripped of money on trying to get him.
Kurt Tippett
Kurt Anthony Tippett (born 8 May 1987) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club and the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Tippett represented Queensland in under-18 basketball before transferring to Australian rules football and playing for the Southport Football Club in the Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL). He was selected by Adelaide in the 2006 AFL draft.
Tippett was born in Sydney, New South Wales[citation needed] but moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland at two months of age.[citation needed] He is the brother of former AFL player Joel Tippett and professional Netball player Gretel Bueta.[citation needed] Tippett attended All Saints Anglican College during his high school years[citation needed] where he first trialed Australian rules football in an inter-school sports tournament in 2004.[citation needed] His first love was basketball however and at eleven years of age,[citation needed] and made his representative debut for the Gold Coast.[citation needed] In 2004, he represented Queensland in the under 18 championships[citation needed] and was given a spot on the Brisbane Bullets development squad.[citation needed] While competing in the under 18 championships, Tippett competed against the likes of Patrick Mills, Joe Ingles and future AFL player Scott Pendlebury.[citation needed] He also toured the United States with the Queensland Academy of Sport team.[citation needed]
Upon returning from the United States, he accepted an offer from the Gold Coast Stingrays to try out for their Australian rules football representative team.[citation needed] He made the team and they went on to be crowned state champions.[citation needed] Following the victory he joined Southport for their 2005 season and after a few games in the reserves he made his seniors debut at the Gabba against the Brisbane Lions reserves team and matched up on AFL premiership player Jamie Charman.[citation needed] Kurt would end 2005 with Southport's reserves best and fairest award while playing in ten senior matches for the season.[citation needed] He then went on to represent Queensland in the 2006 AFL Under 18 Championships where they would go undefeated through the tournament to win the division two title.[citation needed] He would also be the second highest goal kicker during Southport's 2006 premiership winning season.[citation needed]
Tippett was drafted by the Adelaide Football Club with the thirty-second pick in the 2006 AFL draft. He made his debut in round one in the 2008 season against Western Bulldogs at the Telstra Dome. Playing as a key forward and ruckman, he became a regular in the side, but was often criticized for his inaccurate kicking at goal. At the Crows Club Champion evening, he received a 2008 Rising Star Nomination.
By the next season, Tippett had begun to develop into a potent tall forward. A bag of seven goals and a high mark against Essendon in round 11 showed his potential to become the high-scoring key forward that Adelaide had lacked since the departure of Tony Modra, and with successive bags of five against Richmond and Fremantle he showed he could perform on a regular basis. He finished the home-and-away season with forty-seven goals, second behind only Jason Porplyzia – with fifty-two goals – in the club's goalkicking. He kicked eight more goals in the finals to finish with fifty-five for the year. His sixty-metre goal from the boundary line gave Adelaide a one-point lead against Collingwood in the last minute of the 2009 semi final; however, this went in vain as opposing forward Jack Anthony restored Collingwood's lead seconds later, resulting in a loss.
In 2009. he signed a three-year deal with Adelaide, preventing the soon-to-be Gold Coast club from recruiting him as one of their un-contracted player signings. In 2010 Tippett was Adelaide's leading goalkicker.
On 6 October 2012, it was announced Tippett had requested a trade to the Sydney Swans. Criticism was later heard from many people, two of which were Crows legend Mark Ricciuto, who said that Tippett was a money driver and former Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett who angrily said the Swans should be stripped of money on trying to get him.
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