Brent Kite

Brent Kite

Personal information
Born	(1981-03-07) 7 March 1981 (age 36) Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	105 kg (16 st 7 lb)
Position	Prop, Second-row
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2002–04 St. George Illawarra Dragons 67 9 0 0 36 2005–13 Manly Sea Eagles 221 12 0 0 48 2014–15 Penrith Panthers 25 0 0 0 0 Total 313 21 0 0 84 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2000–13 Tonga 6 0 0 0 0 2004–06 NSW Country 2 0 0 0 0 2004–09 New South Wales 10 0 0 0 0 2006–09 Australia 14 0 0 0 0
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Brent Kite (born 7 March 1981 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales) is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer. A Tonga and Australia international, and New South Wales State of Origin representative front-row forward, he played club football for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and Penrith Panthers. Kite was named the Clive Churchill Medallist for his performance in the 2008 NRL Grand Final, in which he helped steer Manly-Warringah to a 40 - 0 thumping of the Melbourne Storm, scoring a try.

Kite is of Tongan Descent And played junior football with the Queanbeyan Blues. He represented the Australian Schoolboys side their tour of New Zealand in 1998. He spent three years with the Canberra Raiders' lower grades sides following his graduation from Erindale College.

In late 2000 he travelled to Europe to play for the Tonga national rugby league team alongside Willie Mason in the 2000 World Cup tournament.

Kite made his NRL debut for the St George Illawarra Dragons against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks at Aussie Stadium on 17 March 2002. Kite moved from the second-row into the front-row following injuries at St George in early 2004. After showing good form in early 2004, Kite was selected for the Country Origin side. Kite was also selected to represent New South Wales, playing all three games in the 2004 State of Origin series. Kite left the Dragons at the end of the 2004 NRL season with both parties citing salary cap constraints as the reason for his move to the Manly Sea Eagles.