{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Scott Barton | image = | caption = | full_name = Scott Andrew Barton | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|02|24|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Winger | provinceyears1 = 2001 | province1 = {{rut|Bay of Plenty}} | provinceapps1 = 10 | provincepoints1 = 5 | superyears1 = 2002 | super1 = {{Rut|Brumbies}} | superapps1 = 1 | superpoints1 = 0 | medals = {{MedalSport|Rugby sevens}} {{MedalCountry |{{AUS}}}} {{MedalCompetition|World Games}} {{MedalSilver|2001 Akita | Team competition}} }} '''Scott Andrew Barton''' (born 24 February 1977) is an Australian former professional rugby union player.
==Rugby career== A winger, Barton scored the title sealing try for the Queensland Reds in the 2000 Ricoh Championship final against the ACT Brumbies.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dashing winger arrives late to break Brumbies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/119726594 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=7 June 2000}}</ref> He was forced out by the Reds at the end of the 2001 season after the club signed Wendell Sailor.<ref>{{cite news |title=Barton sealed out |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121730203 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=31 October 2001}}</ref>
Barton continued his career at the Brumbies and featured once during the 2002 Super 12 season, against the Sharks in Canberra. He represented Australia in rugby sevens at that year's Commonwealth Games in Manchester.<ref>{{cite news |title=Australia show class |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/rugby_7s/newsid_2169000/2169081.stm |work=BBC News |date=3 August 2002}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1998, Barton escaped uninjured from a helicopter crash near the Queensland town of Alpha.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rolleston mourns a local legend |url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/rockhampton/rolleston-mourns-a-local-legend/news-story/0327eb2287cab9d5eae70a07724116af |work=The Morning Bulletin |publisher=The Courier-Mail |date=11 November 2010}}</ref>
Barton is a property developer by profession.<ref>{{cite news |title=Scott Barton lists his brand new Grange family home |url=https://www.domain.com.au/news/scott-barton-lists-his-brand-new-grange-queenslander-1072369/ |work=Domain |date=15 July 2021}}</ref>
==See also== *List of ACT Brumbies players
==References== {{Reflist}}
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