Nick Youngquest is an Australia

Australia

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n professional rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer for the Castleford Tigers

Castleford Tigers

Castleford Tigers are a professional rugby league club based in Castleford in West Yorkshire, England. They participate in the professional European competition Super League. They are sometimes known as 'Cas', 'Cas Tigers', 'Classy Cas' or the 'Black & Amber'...

 club of Europe's Super League

Super League

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. He previously played for Crusaders RL, Gateshead Thunder

Gateshead Thunder

Gateshead Thunder is a professional rugby league club based in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear in England. They currently play in the Championship 1 competition, the third tier of rugby league in the United Kingdom...

, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, St George Illawarra Dragons

St George Illawarra Dragons

The St George Illawarra Dragons is an Australian professional rugby league football club, representing the St. George and Illawarra regions. They have competed in the National Rugby League since 1999 as a joint venture between Sydney's historic St. George Dragons club and 1982 expansion club, the...

, Penrith Panthers

Penrith Panthers

The Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, the top rugby league football competition in Australasia. For the 2012 NRL season they will be coached by Ivan...

 and Bulldogs. He primarily plays on the wing.

In late 2007, Youngquest agreed to a one-year deal with the Wests Tigers

Wests Tigers

The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's mid-western suburbs. They have competed in the National Rugby League since they were formed at the end of the 1999 season as a joint-venture club between the Balmain Tigers and the Western Suburbs...

, his fourth club in six years, but failed to make the NRL squad. Youngquest was released mid-way through the 2008 season and signed with the Bulldogs as a replacement for the released Cameron Phelps

Cameron Phelps

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After failing to make an impact in the NRL after six seasons, he moved to play for the French rugby league team Salanque Meditérrannée PIA XIII (also known as the Pia Donkeys) following the conclusion of the 2008 NRL season.

In 2009, Nick Youngquest played for English Championship team; Gateshead Thunder, where he caught the eye of Brian Noble

Brian Noble (rugby league)

Brian 'Nobby' D. Noble is an English former rugby league footballer. Noble is also the former coach of the Great Britain National Rugby League team. He was also the captain of the 1984 Great Britain touring team to Australia...

, the coach for Crusaders RL. Youngquest signed with the Crusaders shortly before the start of the 2010 Super League season.

In 2010, Nick Signed with Nous Model Management, a prestigious modeling agency in Los Angeles.

Controversy

In 2006 Youngquest posed for the Naked Rugby League Calendar 2007-08

Naked Rugby League

Naked Rugby League is a black-and-white nude calendar featuring professional rugby league footballers of Australasia's National Rugby League competition....

stirring controversy after his revealing pose - in which one hand is placed partially over his genitalia. The NRL reacted by distancing itself from the project, stating that they do not endorse nor authorise the calendar. The sales of the calendar helped to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation

National Breast Cancer Foundation

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Nick also spent the 2008/09 season playing in France for the Pia Burro (Donkeys)

Career highlights

• First Grade Debut: 2003 - Round 1, Cronulla v Melbourne Storm
  Melbourne Storm
  The Melbourne Storm are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the city of Melbourne. They are the first fully professional rugby league team based in the Australian rules football-dominated state of Victoria....
  
  , Toyota Park, 16 March
• First Career hat-trick 2010 - Round 24, Crusaders v. Salford City Reds
  Salford City Reds
  Salford City Reds are an English rugby league club based in Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1873, they currently play in the Super League. They have won six Rugby Football League Championships and one Challenge Cup...
  
  , The Racecourse Ground, 1 August

Personal life

In June 2009, Youngquest married So You Think You Can Dance Australia

So You Think You Can Dance Australia

So You Think You Can Dance Australia was an Australian version of the American reality dance-off series So You Think You Can Dance. The show is hosted by Natalie Bassingthwaighte, with Jason Coleman, Matt Lee and Bonnie Lythgoe acting as the judges....

contestant Kassy Lee. In an interview with Cosmopolitan Magazine, Youngquest said they met at the Cosmopolitan Galliano 2008 Hottest Bartender of the Year Awards.

External links

• Bulldogs profile