Kurtley Beale

Kurtley Beale

Kurtley Beale playing for the Waratahs
Full name	Kurtley James Beale
Nickname	Curly Bill, KB
Date of birth	(1989-01-06) 6 January 1989 (age 28)
Place of birth	Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	90 kg (14 st 2 lb; 200 lb)
School	St. Joseph's College
Rugby union career
Current status
Position(s)	Centre / Fly Half / Fullback
Current team	Wasps
Playing career
Position	Centre / Fly Half / Fullback
Professional / senior clubs Years Club / team Apps (points) 2016– Wasps 10 (20) Correct as of 28 February 2017
Provincial/State sides Years Club / team Apps (points) 2007 Western Sydney Rams 8 (28)
Super Rugby Years Club / team Apps (points) 2007–2011 2012–2013 2014–2016 Waratahs Rebels Waratahs 68 14 42 (351) (66) (101) Correct as of 31 May 2016
National team(s) Years Club / team Apps (points) 2004–2006 2007 2009 2009– Australia Schoolboys Australia A Australia U20 Australia 3 63 (22) (128) Correct as of 31 October 2015

Kurtley Beale (born 6 January 1989) is an Australian professional rugby union football player of Aboriginal descent. He has signed to play for Wasps in the English Premiership for the 2016–17 season.

Beale has played for the New South Wales Waratahs and the Melbourne Rebels in Super Rugby, and he represents Australia in international matches. He mainly plays at inside centre or fly-half but can also play at or fullback or on the wing.

In 2011 he received the John Eales Medal, awarded to Australian rugby's best player of the year.

Beale made his Wasps debut in the European Champions Cup in a game against Connacht, scoring a try and receiving a yellow card in the first half.

Beale was born in Blacktown, New South Wales, and grew up at Mount Druitt in Western Sydney. In his early years Kurtley played junior rugby league for Western City Tigers, Mt Druitt before converting to Rugby union. He gained a scholarship to attend St Joseph's College at Hunters Hill, known as Joeys, where he played rugby for the first XV team for three years in a row. Beale was selected to represent the NSW and Australian Schoolboys rugby teams between 2004 and 2006. In 2006 Beale captained both the Joey's first fifteen and the Australian Schoolboys teams, and regularly attended training sessions with the NSW Waratahs from the age of 15. He signed with the Waratahs while still only a 16-year-old. At 17, he attended his first Wallabies training camp, on the invitation of coach John Connolly.