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Nov 17, 1986 Auckland, New Zealand 37 years old
Australian dual code rugby player and australian rules football player
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About Karmichael Hunt
- Karmichael Neil Matthew Hunt (born 17 November 1986) is a New Zealand-born Australian rugby union footballer who plays for the New South Wales Waratahs in the Super Rugby competition.
- He previously played for the Queensland Reds.
- Having also played professional rugby league and Australian rules football, Hunt was the second person (after Ray Millington) in Australia to reach an elite professional level in three different football codes.
- He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, but has represented Australia in both rugby codes after his family emigrated there when he was aged 11. Hunt made his debut for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League (NRL) in 2004 and won the Dally M Rookie of the Year award.
- Primarily a fullback, he played for Brisbane until 2009 and was part of the Broncos team which won the Grand Final in 2006.
- In a controversial move, Hunt chose to play for Australia instead of his native New Zealand, citing a lifelong dream of playing for Queensland in the State of Origin series.
- Hunt's performance in the 2006 NRL season resulted in his selection for Queensland and Australia (the Kangaroos) in 2006. In July 2009 he signed a three-year contract with Australian Football League expansion team, Gold Coast, whose inaugural season was in 2011.
- In 2010, while contracted to the Gold Coast, he played a season with Biarritz Olympique in the French Top 14 rugby union competition.
- After beginning his AFL career, Hunt was named in the Courier Mail 2011 Queensland Australian rules football Team of the Year.
- Overall, however, his 4-year stint in the AFL received mixed reviews. In 2015 he returned to rugby union, joining the Queensland Reds.
- He made his international debut for Australia (the Wallabies) in 2017 and has won six caps. In February 2015 Hunt was arrested and charged with four counts for the supply of cocaine for personal use or to on-supply cocaine to friends and colleagues between June and December 2014.
