Gretel Bueta
![]() Tippett in 2016 | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Gretel Bueta | ||||||||||||||||
Born |
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia | 3 July 1993||||||||||||||||
Height | 191 cm (6 ft 3 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
School | All Saints Anglican School | ||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Niko Bueta | ||||||||||||||||
Married | 7 March 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
Children | Bobby Bueta | ||||||||||||||||
Relatives | Kurt Tippett, Joel Tippett (Brothers) | ||||||||||||||||
Netball career | |||||||||||||||||
Playing position(s): GA, GS | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Club team(s) | Apps | |||||||||||||||
2013, 2015-2019, 2021-2022 | Queensland Firebirds | ||||||||||||||||
2014 | New South Wales Swifts | ||||||||||||||||
Years | National team(s) | Caps | |||||||||||||||
Australian Under 21 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gretel Bueta (née Tippett; born 3 July 1993) is an Australian netball player and former basketball player.[1]
Basketball
[edit]Bueta played for the Australian Institute of Sport in the Women's National Basketball League during the 2010/2011 season. She played half the season with the Logan Thunder in the 2011/2012 season and was named Rookie of the Year for WNBL in 2011 before pulling out due to glandular fever. She also played in 3 junior World Championships - 2009 U/19 World Championships in Thailand where Australia placed 5th. 2010 u/17 World Championships in France where Australia placed 7th and 2011 u/19 World Championships in Chile where Australia placed 4th.[2] In a 24 November 2010 game for the team against the Canberra Capitals, she scored thirteen points and had ten rebounds.[2]
Netball
[edit]In March 2012, Bueta made the switch from Basketball to Netball, registering as a goal attack, goal shooter
In 2013, she was used as a replacement player for the Queensland Firebirds for the injured Chelsea Pitman.[3] Later that year, she was selected for the Australian under 21 netball team for the 2013 World Youth Netball Championship in Glasgow, Scotland,[4] where Australia finished second, and announced that she was joining the NSW Swifts.[4]
Bueta made her ANZ Championship debut in Round 5 of the 2014 ANZ Championship after signing with the NSW Swifts for the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
At the end of the 2014 season, she was released from her contract with the NSW Swifts a year early to return home to be closer to family, signing with the Queensland Firebirds for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. She was selected in the Australian Diamonds squad for the 2018/19 international season.[5]
Gretel has been named in the Super Netball Team of the Year three times, in 2018, 2019 and the 2022 . In the latter year she was also awarded the Liz Ellis Diamond, the most prestigious annual award in Australian netball, given to the player judged the best in both domestic and international netball throughout the calendar year.[6] She sat out of the entire 2020 season as a result of being pregnant with her first child.[7]
Following a season on the sidelines, Gretel and her husband Niko have since welcomed their first child Bobby Bueta into the world.[8] Bueta returned to netball in the 2021 season.[9] Landing a spot in the top 15 current league shooters with 266 points at 80.5% accuracy. She continues to play in the 2022 Suncorp Super Netball season for the Queensland Firebirds. In which she was awarded the Most Valuable Player at the Queensland Firebirds awards night. She further proved her athleticism in the 2022 Netball Quad Series,[10] having a standout performance of 93% shooting accuracy and earning player of the match.[11]
National & International netball representation
[edit]- 2013 Australian 21/U World Youth Netball Championship Team
- 2014 Netball Centre of Excellence Program
- 2014 ANZ Championship debut for the Queensland Firebirds
- 2013 Australian Fast5 Netball Flyers
- 2013 Australian World Youth Netball Championship
- 2015 Constellation Cup
- 2016 Constellation Cup
- 2017 Netball Quad Series - August/September
- 2017 Australian Fast5 Netball Flyers
- 2017 Constellation Cup
- 2018 Netball Quad Series - January
- 2018 Netball Quad Series - September
- 2018 Constellation Cup
- 2019 Netball Quad Series
- 2019 Netball World Cup
- 2019 Constellation Cup
- 2021 Constellation Cup
- 2022 Netball Quad Series
- 2022 Commonwealth Games Birmingham
Personal life
[edit]Bueta is the sister of former AFL footballers Kurt and Joel, and the only daughter of Tony and Janet Tippet.[12] She married her long-term boyfriend, Niko Bueta, on 7 March 2020 and gave birth to the couple's first child, Bobby Bueta in January 2021.[13] Bueta announced her second pregnancy in October 2022 and her withdrawal from the Constellation Cup series against the Silver Ferns.[14] She miscarried and was unknown if she was going to play the 2023 season but in January 2023, she announced that she is having her rainbow baby (2nd pregnancy) and will miss the 2023 SSN season and world cup in Cape Town. On 10th August 2024 on her Instagram page, she announced that she is pregnant again but this time with a baby girl
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gretel Tippett". netball.com.au. Netball Australia. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ a b Tuxworth, Jon (25 November 2010). "AIS star struck by Payne of moving on". The Canberra Times. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ "Gretel's code switch set for fairytale ending". ANZ Championship. 11 May 2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ a b Partland, Warren (30 July 2013). "Gretel Tippett joins NSW Swifts for next season". The Advertiser. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ "17-strong Diamonds squad named for International Test Series". Netball Australia. 15 July 2018.
- ^ "Gretel Tippett wins Liz Ellis Diamond with standout season for bottom-of-the-ladder Queensland Firebirds". ABC News. 30 November 2019.
- ^ "Netball ace Bueta to miss whole season". The Canberra Times. 5 July 2020.
- ^ "Bueta's Back with a Plus One!". Queensland Firebirds. 16 March 2021.
- ^ "Gretel Bueta Profile". Queensland Firebirds. 2 March 2021.
- ^ "New-look Diamonds show fight in Quad Series and potential for sparkling future | Erin Delahunty". TheGuardian.com. 19 January 2022.
- ^ Gretel Bueta - Player of the series
- ^ Pearce, Linda (8 May 2014). "Gretel Tippett, sister of AFL giants, the big hope of Australian netball". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Amy Price (21 March 2020). "Netballer Gretel Tippett shares details of her dream Gold Coast wedding". The Courier Mail. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ^ "Amazing news sees 'world's best player' Gretel Bueta withdraw from Diamonds". 4 October 2022.
- Australian Institute of Sport basketball (WNBL) players
- 1993 births
- New South Wales Swifts players
- Queensland Firebirds players
- Sportspeople from the Gold Coast, Queensland
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Living people
- 2019 Netball World Cup players
- Netball players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in netball
- Suncorp Super Netball players
- Netball players from Queensland
- Queensland Fusion players
- Australian Netball League players
- Australian netball players
- Australia international netball players
- Australia international Fast5 players
- Queensland state netball league players
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- People educated at All Saints Anglican School