Billy Slater

Billy Slater

Personal information
Full name	William Slater
Nickname	Billy the Kid
Born	(1983-06-18) 18 June 1983 (age 33) Nambour, Queensland, Australia
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	89 kg (14 st 0 lb)
Playing information
Position	Fullback
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2003– Melbourne Storm 278 172 0 0 688 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2004–15 Queensland 27 12 0 0 48 2008–15 Australia 25 22 0 0 88
As of 3 March 2017 Source:

Billy Slater is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Melbourne Storm of the National Rugby League (NRL). An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative fullback, he has played his whole NRL career to date at Melbourne, with whom he set the club record for most ever tries and NRL record for most ever tries by a fullback. Slater also won three grand finals, the Clive Churchill Medal and the Dally M Medal with the Storm. With the Kangaroos he was the 2008 World Cup's top try-scorer and player of the tournament and won the 2008 Golden Boot Award as the World player of the year. Slater was also the winner of the television game show Australia's Greatest Athlete in 2009 and 2010.

Slater was born in Nambour, Queensland, and began playing rugby league for the Innisfail Brothers club in Innisfail, Queensland at age fourteen. A North Queensland Cowboys fan growing up, he continued to make the Innisfail representative side every season until his final year with the club. At sixteen years of age, Slater left Year 12 at Innisfail State High School and decided to follow his personal passion for thoroughbred racing, working initially in Sydney as a roustabout for the racehorse trainer Gai Waterhouse.