Karmicheal hunt
Introduction and early life
Karmicheal Hunt is a professional Australian soccer player. He has been known to exhibit a rare type of versatility having played and done very well in Rugby League, Rugby Union and now Australian football. He was born on November 17, 1986 in Auckland, New Zealand. He is Australian but has a heritage from the Cook Islands and Samoa. It is 1.86 meters tall and weighs about 93 kg. He plays as a defender and usually wears jersey number 7. He currently plays for the Gold Coast Suns Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He started playing at the tender age of thirteen and has many accomplishments even at that young age. He has only played a few games in the AFL after spending most of his early life playing in the Rugby League.
Early career
When he was a school kid, Karmicheal was very good at sports and performed exceptionally well in many of the sports at the time. Basketball was his favorite game then, but he practiced practically all sports. His performance was very exceptional to the extent that Cyril O’Connor awarded him the Bronco Scholarship in 2001. That same year he was able to enter the Merit Side of Australian schoolboys. He also played for various local teams in both Basketball and Rugby League. All of them formed the basis of his Rugby League career.
He started playing Rugby League at the club level in 2002 at the age of fifteen, where he was offered an official contract. He played in various categories, including under-eighteen (U-18) Rugby League championships and also had various awards, honors and achievements in Rugby at the youth level. At the senior level, he made his National Rugby League (NRL) debut in 2004 with the Broncos. His first game was the game against the Warriors and he made history as the youngest Bronco player to play in this grade. He was seventeen at the time. He was also named to the Australian Youth Kangaroo team, but did not play a match with the team. He ended up winning the NRL / Bronco / Footy Show Rookie of the Year award at the end of that season.
Career
He continued his great performance in the 2005 season as a very consistent Brisbane Bronco player. In the 2006 season, he became a very consistent member of the Brisbane Broncos team. Hunt also had quite a few accomplishments this season, including making his debut for the Australian Kangaroos, participating in the Australian Three Nations team and also winning the grand final in a game where they defeated the Melbourne Storm. It also won the Beach Footy Award this year.
Karmichael Hunt was able to maintain his form and improve his performance consistently as the years went by. In 2007, he won the Best Back Award at his club, Brisbane Broncos, and was part of the winning team for the Queensland State of Origin Series for the second year in a row. In 2008, he consolidated most of the accomplishments that he was able to achieve in the previous year and also reached new heights that same year. He again won the Best Back Award and also the Queensland State of Origin Series for the third time. He entered the World Cup team selection and also made history as the youngest player to reach 100 games at the age of 21. He continued his achievements and played consistently for his club. He was part of the Queensland team that won the State of Origin Series again for the fourth time in 2009.
He left the Brisbane Broncos for France to play in the Rugby Union, from there he moved to the Gold Coast Suns after a short stint in France where he has been playing well on defense.
