Mitchell Lewis (footballer)
| Mitch Lewis | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Lewis playing for Hawthorn in April 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Date of birth | 14 October 1998 | ||
| Original team(s) | Calder Cannons (TAC Cup) | ||
| Draft | No. 76, 2016 national draft | ||
| Debut | Round 9, 2018, Hawthorn vs. Brisbane Lions, at The Gabba | ||
| Height | 199 cm (6 ft 6 in) | ||
| Weight | 101 kg (223 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Key Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Hawthorn | ||
| Number | 2 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2017– | Hawthorn | 70 (125) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2024. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Mitchell Lewis (born 14 October 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early career
[edit]A gifted sportsman as a schoolboy, Lewis had to choose between football, cricket and golf.[1] Good enough to play district cricket and playing off a golfing handicap of 1, Lewis choose football and played for the Calder Cannons.
AFL career
[edit]Lewis was drafted by Hawthorn with their second selection and seventy-sixth overall in the 2016 AFL draft.
Played 13 games for Box Hill in the VFL in 2017 before he required a shoulder reconstruction. He continued to develop in 2018 averaging 3 goals a game for Box Hill. Lewis became a target up forward, he booted 38 goals in the VFL last season and proved himself as a versatile big man as a marking forward or going into the ruck.
He got promoted for the round nine match against Brisbane at The Gabba.
In 2019 with the demise of Jarryd Roughead as the dominant forward, Lewis managed to string a few games together before returning to Box Hill with instruction to work on certain areas of his game. Five weeks later a more aggressive Lewis started to announce himself as a presence in the forward line and started to take contested marks and kick multiple goals on several occasions. He received an AFL Rising Star nomination later in the year. A shoulder injury ended his season prematurely.
Lewis changed his guernsey number to 2 before the 2020 season. In round 2, 2022, Lewis kicked a career-best haul of 5 goals. [2]
Lewis had a delayed start to the 2023 season after suffering a partially torn ACL during the pre-season.
In round 17 of the 2024 Season, in a game against the Geelong Cats, Lewis suffered another torn ACL and is expected to return to playing in mid 2025.
Personal life
[edit]Mitchell went to Wallan Primary School as a young boy. Lewis is currently studying a Bachelor of Sport Development at Deakin University.[3]
Statistics
[edit]Updated to the end of 2024.[4]
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| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
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| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
| 2017 | Hawthorn | 39 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 |
| 2018 | Hawthorn | 39 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0 |
| 2019 | Hawthorn | 8 | 12 | 20 | 15 | 92 | 46 | 138 | 56 | 19 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 7.7 | 3.8 | 11.5 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 0 |
| 2020[a] | Hawthorn | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 18 | 46 | 15 | 5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 2021 | Hawthorn | 2 | 14 | 22 | 9 | 91 | 51 | 142 | 67 | 28 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 6.5 | 3.6 | 10.1 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Hawthorn | 2 | 15 | 37 | 15 | 116 | 52 | 168 | 72 | 16 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 7.7 | 3.5 | 11.2 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 3 |
| 2023 | Hawthorn | 2 | 15 | 36 | 20 | 125 | 67 | 192 | 85 | 25 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 8.3 | 4.5 | 12.8 | 5.7 | 1.7 | 1 |
| 2024 | Hawthorn | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 32 | 18 | 3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 5.3 | 2.8 | 8.0 | 4.5 | 0.8 | 0 |
| Career | 70 | 125 | 66 | 477 | 257 | 734 | 315 | 99 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 6.8 | 3.7 | 10.5 | 4.5 | 1.4 | 4 | ||
Notes
- ^ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Honours and achievements
[edit]Hawthorn
- McClelland Trophy: 2024
Box Hill
- VFL premiership player: 2018
Individual
- Box Hill leading goalkicker: 2018
- Hawthorn most improved player: 2022
- Hawthorn most promising player: 2019
- AFL Rising Star nominee: 2019
References
[edit]- ^ "Lewis a triple threat". 7 August 2016.
- ^ "Hawks 2020 jumper numbers revealed".
- ^ "Elite Athlete Program Profiles". Deakin University. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ "Mitchell Lewis". AFL Tables. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
External links
[edit]
- Mitchell Lewis's profile on the official website of the Hawthorn Football Club
- Mitchell Lewis's playing statistics from AFL Tables
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