Jeremy Tilse
Prop
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Profile
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Height:
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190cm
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Weight:
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118kg
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Date Of Birth:
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02/06/1986
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Place of Birth:
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Newcastle NSW
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Rugby Career
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Senior Club:
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Sydney University
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Stats
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Provincial Rugby Caps:
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24
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Provincial Rugby Debut:
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2006 v Saracens A
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Super Rugby Caps:
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20
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Super Rugby Debut:
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2007 v Cheetahs
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The 2013 season will be Jeremy Tilse’s eighth year with the HSBC Waratahs, making him one of the most experienced members of the 30 man squad. The big front rower made his state debut on the 2006 Development Tour to the UK and Ireland, and has gone on to make 19 provincial appearances between 2006 and 2012.
A multiple-premiership winner with the Sydney University club, Tilse made his Super 14 debut against the Cheetahs in Kimberley in 2007, but an abundance of front row talent saw the talented young prop struggle for game time behind Wallabies Al Baxter, Benn Robinson and Sekope Kepu. However in 2010, with the injury-enforced absence of Benn Robinson and Sekope Kepu, Tilse took the opportunities presented to him with both hands and established himself as an important component of the squad.
Jeremy grew up in the city of Maitland, 166km north of Sydney, where he studied at Bolwarra Public School, and Hunter Valley Grammar. He enjoyed early sporting successes in the sport of rowing, an endeavour he initially took up for the female attention, rather than the sporting plaudits.
The experienced front rower started his rugby career for the U/12 Maitland Blacks, alongside established Wallabies Pat McCabe and Kurtley Beale. He moved to Sydney to row for the prestigious St Joseph’s College in Hunter’s Hill, but his size and ability saw him quickly drafted into the school’s first grade rugby team.
From there, he went on to represent the Australian Schoolboys, Australian U/19 and Sydney University before joining the Waratahs Academy in 2005.
The Tilse family has a strong athletic pedigree, with both his parents also enjoying representative honours. His father represented NSW Country in rugby, and his mother was a member of the NSW rowing team.
Away from the rugby field, Jeremy is an extreme sports fanatic, listing sailing, coastal rowing, snowboarding, hang gliding and surfing as his other major passions. Tilse is studying for a Bachelor of Construction and in November 2012 became a qualified builder by completing his Certificate IV in Building. He lives in Camperdown.
Updated June 17, 2013