Kurt Anthony Tippett (born 8 May 1987) is a former professional

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er who played for the

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. He also played for the

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between 2007 and 2012. Tippett represented Queensland in under-18 basketball before transferring to Australian rules football and playing for Southport Football Club. He was selected by Adelaide in the

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Early life and junior football

Tippett was born in

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but moved to the

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at two months of age. He is the brother of former AFL player Joel Tippett and professional Netball player

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. Tippett attended All Saints Anglican College during his high school years where he first trialed Australian rules football in an inter-school sports tournament in 2004. His first love was basketball however and at eleven years of age, and made his representative debut for the Gold Coast. In 2004, he represented Queensland in the under 18 championships and was given a spot on the

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development squad. While competing in the under 18 championships, Tippett competed against the likes of

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and future AFL player

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. He also toured the

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with the Queensland Academy of Sport team. 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. He made the team and they went on to be crowned state champions. Following the victory he joined for their 2005 season and after a few games in the reserves he made his seniors debut at the Gabba against the

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reserves team and matched up on AFL premiership player

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. Kurt would end 2005 with Southport's reserves

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award while playing in ten senior matches for the season. He then went on to represent Queensland in the

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where they would go undefeated through the tournament to win the division two title. He would also be the second highest goal kicker during Southport's 2006 premiership winning season.

AFL career

Adelaide (2008–2012)

Tippett was drafted by the

with the thirty-second pick in the

. He made his debut in round one in the 2008 season against at the

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. 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 in round 11 showed his potential to become the high-scoring key forward that Adelaide had lacked since the departure of

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, and with successive bags of five against and he showed he could perform on a regular basis. He finished the home-and-away season with forty-seven goals, second behind only

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– 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 in the last minute of the 2009 semi final; however, this went in vain as opposing forward

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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.

2012 trade controversy

On 6 October 2012, it was announced Tippett had requested a trade to the

. Criticism was later heard from many people, two of which were Crows legend

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, who said that Tippett was a money driver and former Hawthorn president

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who angrily said the Swans should be stripped of money on trying to get him. Although things shifted, when it was revealed Tippett and Adelaide had breached AFL rules regarding his contract. Tippett was offered money not stipulated under the club's salary cap. As a result, the club was fined and lost its first two draft picks in the 2012 and 2013 national drafts, while Tippett was fined and suspended for eleven matches. The proposed trade to Sydney was blocked by the AFL, with Sydney eventually picking him up in the pre-season draft, while Adelaide lost Tippett for nothing.

Sydney (2013–2019)

Tippett debuted for the Swans in round 13 of the

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when Sydney played at

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. He kicked a goal in the first minute, finished with two, and collected six possessions. Although missing the first eleven rounds of the season, Tippett showed his prowess in front of the goals winning the Swans' leading goal kicker award. After an injury interrupted start to the year, Tippett would play his first game for 2014 in round eight against Hawthorn, kicking four goals. He would go on to play the next two games showing good signs before tearing the meniscus in his right knee. He returned against but was in and out of the side due to his troublesome knee. He would then go on to play in his first grand final, only to lose to the Hawks, kicking one goal from sixteen disposals for the match. Tippett announced his immediate retirement in January 2018 just two months prior to the start of the 2018 season. The effects of a lingering ankle injury was referred to as his key consideration. Tippett had also suffered various hamstring, hip and ankle injuries in the two years prior. Tippett was drafted by the Swans in the 2018 AFL rookie draft with pick 42, after previously reaching an agreement with the Swans as per his retirement settlement. Due to

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rules, the Swans would need to pay the remainder of his settlement within the salary cap, while Tippett would have to remain a listed player.

Statistics

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2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

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2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

, , 4 , , 24 , , 55 , , 31 , , 160 , , 98 , , 258 , , 96 , , 60 , , 243 , , 2.3 , , 1.3 , , 6.7 , , 4.1 , , 10.8 , , 4.0 , , 2.5 , , 10.1 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

, , 4 , , 22 , , 46 , , 34 , , 141 , , 59 , , 200 , , 84 , , 39 , , 175 , , 2.1 , , 1.5 , , 6.4 , , 2.7 , , 9.1 , , 3.8 , , 1.8 , , 8.0 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

, , 4 , , 18 , , 31 , , 22 , , 148 , , 69 , , 217 , , 85 , , 40 , , 130 , , 1.7 , , 1.2 , , 8.2 , , 3.8 , , 12.1 , , 4.7 , , 2.2 , , 7.2 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

, , 4 , , 21 , , 39 , , 31 , , 176 , , 79 , , 255 , , 106 , , 32 , , 158 , , 1.9 , , 1.5 , , 8.4 , , 3.8 , , 12.1 , , 5.0 , , 1.5 , , 7.5 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

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2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

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2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

, , 8 , , 22 , , 44 , , 23 , , 146 , , 121 , , 267 , , 93 , , 68 , , 380 , , 2.0 , , 1.0 , , 6.6 , , 5.5 , , 12.1 , , 4.2 , , 3.1 , , 17.3 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

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2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

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Family

His brother

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played in the

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(AFL) for the

, and , while his sister Gretel played professional Basketball for the Logan Thunder in the

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(WNBL) and now plays netball in the ANZ Championship for the

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Personal life

During Kurt's two years with he studied pharmacy at

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on the Gold Coast. In 2021 he was approached by the Gold Coast Suns to work part time as a mentor to the club taller recruits.afl.com.au

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tippett, Kurt Sportspeople from the Gold Coast, Queensland Adelaide Football Club players Southport Australian Football Club players West Adelaide Football Club players Sydney Swans players Australian rules footballers from Queensland Living people 1987 births