 Tuttle in 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | James Tuttle 13 May 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (13 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Joseph's College, Nudgee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James Tuttle (born 13 May 1996) is an Australian rugby union player. He last played for Melbourne Rebels [1] after previously playing for the Queensland Reds. [2]
Contents
Tuttle attended St Joseph's College, Nudgee and represented Queensland and Australia at schoolboy rugby in 2013. He joined Queensland club side GPS, and his performances in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition led to his signing with the Queensland Country team for the inaugural season of the National Rugby Championship (NRC) in 2014. [3]
In 2015, Tuttle was selected for the Australia Under-20 team to play at the World Rugby Under 20 Championship in Italy. [4] He signed a three-year Super Rugby contract with the Brisbane-based Reds in 2015, [5] and toured with the team to South Africa but did not play. [6] After Queensland Country's captain Anthony Fainga'a was forced to withdraw from the 2015 NRC season due to injury, Tuttle was appointed as the new captain of the side. [7]
Tuttle currently studies a Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University as of 2024. [8]
In 2022, Tuttle was selected for the Australia ‘A’ Rugby Union Team to play at the Pacific Nations Cup [9] in Fiji. Later that year, he toured again with Australia ‘A’ to Japan to play the Japan XV side in a three-match series. [10] Tuttle was appointed as captain for the team’s final match in Osaka. [11]
In 2023, Tuttle again toured with the Australia A rugby union side to France to play against Portugal in a RWC warm up match. He later joined the Barbarian FC for a 6 week tour of the UK playing against English Premiership sides Northampton, Bristol, Gloucester, Harlequins and against URC side Scarlets.