Karmichael Neil Matthew Hunt, nicknamed K, is a New Zealand-born Australian rugby union footballer who plays for the New South Wales Waratahs. He previously played for the Queensland Reds in rugby league and the Gold Coast in Australian rules football. Hunt is the second person in Australia to reach an elite professional level in three different football codes. He made his international debut for Australia 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.
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Karmichael Neil Matthew Hunt, nicknamed K, 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 in rugby league and the Gold Coast in Australian rules football. Hunt was born in Auckland, New Zealand, but has represented Australia in both rugby codes after his family emigrated there when he was 11. 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. He was questioned by police in 2009 relating to an alleged sexual assault in a Brisbane nightclub. Hunt is the second person in Australia to reach an elite professional level in three different football codes. He made his international debut for Australia in 2017 and has won six caps. In 2004, Hunt was selected for the Australian Schoolboys rugby league representative team to tour New Zealand. While playing rugby union at ACGS, he won the Bob Templeton Trophy for Queensland’s leading schoolboy player. In 2001, he became part of the Under-15 Australian merit side, and, upon seeing him play rugby league, NRL club Brisbane Broncos scout Cyril Connell offered him a scholarship with the club. Hunt accepted the Broncos scholarship and, after strong performance at Souths Acacia Ridge and Sunnybank High School, received a scholarship to the Anglican Church Grammar School. At Churchie, Hunt switched to rugby union and was a dominant figure in the school’s team, which played in the Queensland Great Public Schools competition.
As a fullback, he led his team to an undefeated season in 2003, and he was one of the best players in the GPS competition. Hunt’s performance in the 2006 NRL season resulted in his selection for Queensland and Australia 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. During the rugby off-season in 2003 he played six matches of Australian Rules football code for the ACGS school side under captain Scott Harding. In 2010, while contracted to the Gold coast, he played a season with Biarritz Olympique in the French Top 14 rugby union competition. In 2015 he returned to rugbyunion, joining the Queensland Redskins. He has also played for St. Illawarra Dragons, St. James’ Park, Stony Point and the Sydney Roosters in the Australian Rugby League. He is the son of former rugby league player and former St. Johns coach, Michael Hunt. Hunt has a younger brother, Michael, who is also a rugby union player and a former St Johnstone’s College rugby union coach. He moved to Australia from New Zealand at the age of 11. Hunt played junior rugby league for the Avondale Wolves before moving to Australia as an eleven-year-old in 1997, the family moved to the suburb of Algester in Brisbane, Australia. He played for Brisbane Broncos until 2009 and won the Dally M Rookie of the Year award. In a controversial move, Hunt chose to play for Australia instead of his native New Zealand in the State of Origin series.
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