Heath Culpitt

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

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| fullname = Heath Culpitt

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|2|16|df=y}}

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| originalteam = Castlemaine

| height = 183 cm

| weight = 85 kg

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| statsend = 2001

| years1 = 1999–2001

| club1 = {{AFL Car}}

| games_goals1 = 15 (5)

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Heath Culpitt (born 16 February 1978) is an Australian rules footballer. He played with Carlton in the Australian Football League.

From Castlemaine, Victoria, Culpitt played football for the Castlemaine Football Club, before being recruited to the AFL by the Carlton Football Club in 1998. He spent four years with Carlton, playing as a utility/midfielder, and played fifteen games between 1999 and 2001 before being delisted.{{Ref AFL Encyc|4th|140}}

Since being delisted, Culpitt has played for Glenelg and Norwood in the South Australian National Football League, and for St Mary's and Waratah in the Northern Territory Football League. While with St Mary's in the 2005/06 NTFL season, Culpitt won the Nichols Medal as the league best and fairest.{{cite web|url=http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/St_Marys.htm|title=St Mary's|accessdate=24 Dec 2011|publisher=Fullpointsfooty|first=John|last=Devaney|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607134817/http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/St_Marys.htm|archivedate=7 June 2011}}

In 2005, it was revealed that Culpitt was accused of rape in 1999. He was not charged, although the police were criticised for losing evidence in the investigation.{{cite news|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&docID=AGE050419F27L47V5CJK |title=No charge for former Blues player as evidence lost|author1=Hughes, Gary |author2=Milovanovic, Selma |date=19 April 2005|work=The Age|page= 6}}