Mitchell Lewis (footballer)
Mitchell Lewis (born 14 October 1998) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
| Mitchell Lewis | |||
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 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 AFL draft | ||
| Debut |
Round 9, 2018, Hawthorn vs. Brisbane Lions, at The Gabba | ||
| Height | 198 cm (6 ft 6 in) | ||
| Weight | 92 kg (203 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Hawthorn | ||
| Number | 2 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2017– | Hawthorn | 14 (20) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2019. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Early career
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
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.[2]
Statistics
- Statistics are correct to the end of 2019.[3]
| G | Goals | B | Behinds | K | Kicks | H | Handballs | D | Disposals | M | Marks | T | Tackles |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | ||||
| 2017 | Hawthorn | 39 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Career | 14 | 20 | 15 | 96 | 58 | 154 | 58 | 22 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 6.9 | 4.1 | 11.0 | 4.1 | 1.6 | ||
Honours and achievements
Team
Individual
- Hawthorn most promising player: 2019
- AFL Rising Star nominee: 2019
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mitchell Lewis (footballer). |
- Mitchell Lewis's profile on the official website of the Hawthorn Football Club
- Mitchell Lewis's playing statistics from AFL Tables