By Michael Atkinson From shotput to UQ to Ireland and India and back again, international prop Tom Court, is back where it all began, 14 years later. A promising athlete, Tom Court was on a trajectory to great things in the world of shotput in his early 20’s. But a disappointing twist of fate in relation to a representative team, and some complications with his health led Court to the beginning of a journey no one could have predicted. Needing to deal with some high blood pressure, the then 24-year-old was given the recommendation to take up a team sport “with some cardio”. As a student at University of Queensland in 2004, Court would see the rugby teams training on the fields at St. Lucia and decided to give rugby a go. “I just went down and joined the sixth-grade boys,” Court told Rugby News. “By the end of the season, I was packing down in the front row for Premier Grade in the Grand Final.” The front-rower’s rise to the professional ranks fro