Kurt Baptiste

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Kurt Baptiste
Personal information

Baptiste playing for the Broncos in 2009.
Born	(1991-03-15) 15 March 1991 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	87 kg (13 st 10 lb)
Playing information
Position	Hooker
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2011–12	Brisbane Broncos	5	1	0	0	4
2014–	Canberra Raiders	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	5	1	0	0	4
Source: RLP

Kurt Baptiste (born 15 March 1991) is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Canberra Raiders of the National Rugby League. He primarily plays hooker.

Playing career

Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Baptiste played his junior football for the Aspley Devils before being signed by the Brisbane Broncos. He played for the Broncos' NYC team from 2009 to 2011, scoring 28 tries in 67 games^[1] before moving on to the Norths Devils, one of the Broncos' Queensland Cup feeder teams in 2012.

At the end of 2011, Baptiste was named at hooker in the 2011 NYC Team of the Year.

In Round 12 of the 2011 NRL season, Baptiste made his NRL debut for the Broncos in their 34-10 loss to the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles at Suncorp Stadium. He scored the first try of his NRL career in the Broncos' Round 16, 16-12 loss to the South Sydney Rabbitohs in Perth, Western Australia. Baptiste only played 1 game for the Broncos in 2012, in the Broncos' 30-6 win over the Canberra Raiders at Suncorp Stadium.

On 18 November 2013, Baptiste signed a 1-year contract with the Canberra Raiders starting in 2014.^[2]^[3]

Representative career

In 2012 and 2013, Baptiste played for the Queensland Residents against the New South Wales Residents.^[4]^[5]

References

External links

2012 Brisbane Broncos profile

v t e Canberra Raiders – current squad

Campese (c) Baptiste Boyd Buttriss Croker Cronin Edwards Fensom Foster Hodge Kennedy Learoyd-Lahrs Lee Mataora McCrone McIlwrick Milford Nicholls O'Donnell Pangai Papalii Rapana Robinson Sauiluma Setu Shillington Tilse Tupou Vaughan White Wighton Coach: Stuart

v t e NYC Team of the Year – 2011

1. Omar Slaimankhel 2. Dane Gagai 3. Konrad Hurrell 4. Mahe Fonua 5. James Roberts 6. Carlos Tuimavave 7. Jacob Miller 8. Kane Evans 9. Kurt Baptiste 10. Dale Finucane 11. Jason Taumalolo 12. Alex McKinnon 13. Tyrone Peachey 14. Kenny Bromwich 15. Tim Lafai 16. Jack De Belin 17. Kyle Feldt Coach: John Ackland

Persondata
Name	Baptiste, Kurt
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player
Date of birth	15 March 1991
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland
Date of death
Place of death

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