Kurt Baptiste

Kurt Baptiste

Baptiste playing for the Broncos in 2009.
Personal information
Born	(1991-03-15) 15 March 1991 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	84 kg (13 st 3 lb)
Playing information
Position	Hooker, Halfback, Five-eighth
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2011–12	Brisbane Broncos	5	1	0	0	4
2014–	Canberra Raiders	7	0	0	0	0
	Total	12	1	0	0	4
Source: Rugby League Project

Kurt Baptiste (born 15 March 1991) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Canberra Raiders of the National Rugby League. He primarily plays hooker, but can fill in at halfback and five-eighth.

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]

On 3 September 2014, Baptiste re-signed with the Raiders on a 2-year contract.^[4]

Representative career

In 2012 and 2013, Baptiste played for the Queensland Residents against the New South Wales Residents.^[5][6]

References

External links

• 2014 Canberra Raiders profile