Gretel Bueta (

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Tippett; born 3 July 1993) is an Australian

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player and former

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player.

Basketball

Bueta played for the

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in the

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during the 2010/2011 season. She played half the season with the Logan Thunder in the 2011/2012 season and was named Rookie of the Year for WNBL in 2011 before pulling out due to glandular fever. She also played in 3 junior World Championships - 2009 U/19 World Championships in Thailand where Australia placed 5th. 2010 u/17 World Championships in France where Australia placed 7th and 2011 u/19 World Championships in Chile where Australia placed 4th. In a 24 November 2010 game for the team against the

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, she scored thirteen points and had ten rebounds.

Netball

In March 2012, Bueta made the switch from Basketball to Netball, registering as a goal attack, goal shooter In 2013, she was used as a replacement player for the

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for the injured

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. Later that year, she was selected for the Australian under 21 netball team for the 2013 World Youth Netball Championship in

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, where Australia finished second, and announced that she was joining the

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. Bueta made her ANZ Championship debut in Round 5 of the 2014 ANZ Championship after signing with the NSW Swifts for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. At the end of the 2014 season, she was released from her contract with the NSW Swifts a year early to return home to be closer to family, signing with the Queensland Firebirds for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. She was selected in the

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squad for the 2018/19 international season. Gretel has been named in the Super Netball

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three times, in

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and the

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. In the latter year she was also awarded the

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, the most prestigious annual award in Australian netball, given to the player judged the best in both domestic and international netball throughout the calendar year. She sat out of the entire 2020 season as a result of being pregnant with her first child. Following a season on the sidelines, Gretel and her husband Niko have since welcomed their first child Bobby Bueta into the world. Bueta returned to netball in the 2021 season. Landing a spot in the top 15 current league shooters with 266 points at 80.5% accuracy. She continues to play in the 2022 Suncorp Super Netball season for the Queensland Firebirds. In which she was awarded the Most Valuable Player at the Queensland Firebirds awards night. She further proved her athleticism in the

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, having a standout performance of 93% shooting accuracy and earning player of the match.

National & International netball representation

* 2013 Australian 21/U World Youth Netball Championship Team * 2014 Netball Centre of Excellence Program * 2014 ANZ Championship debut for the

* 2013 Australian

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Flyers * 2013 Australian World Youth Netball Championship *

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* 2016 Constellation Cup * 2017 Netball Quad Series - August/September * 2017 Australian

Flyers * 2017 Constellation Cup * 2018 Netball Quad Series - January * 2018 Netball Quad Series - September * 2018 Constellation Cup * 2019 Netball Quad Series *

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* 2021 Constellation Cup *

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Birmingham

Personal life

Bueta is the sister of former

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, and the only daughter of Tony and Janet Tippet. She married her long-term boyfriend, Niko Bueta, on the 7th of March 2020 and gave birth to the couple's first child, Bobby Bueta in January 2021. Bueta announced her second pregnancy in October 2022 and her withdrawal from the

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series against the

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. She miscarried and was unknown if she was going to play the 2023 season but in January 2023, she announced that she is having her rainbow baby (2nd pregnancy) and will miss the 2023 SSN season and world cup in Cape Town.

References

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