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).

Mitch Lewis
Lewis playing for Hawthorn in April 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-10-14) 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 66 (120)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2023.
Career highlights
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. 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.

Personal life

Mitchell went to Wallan Primary School as a young boy. Lewis is currently studying a Bachelor of Sport Development at Deakin University.[3]

Statistics

Updated to the end of 2023.[4]

Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals 
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds 
  H  
 Handballs 
  M  
 Marks
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game) Votes
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2017Hawthorn39 0——————————————0
2018Hawthorn39 20041216230.00.02.06.08.01.01.50
2019Hawthorn8 122015924613856191.71.37.73.811.54.71.60
2020[lower-alpha 1]Hawthorn2 8552818461550.60.63.52.35.81.90.60
2021Hawthorn2 14229915114267281.60.66.53.610.14.82.00
2022Hawthorn2 1537151165216872162.51.07.73.511.24.81.13
2023Hawthorn2 1536201256719285252.41.38.34.512.85.71.71
Career 6612064456246702297961.81.06.93.710.64.51.54

Notes

  1. 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

Team

Individual

References
  1. "Lewis a triple threat". 7 August 2016.
  2. "Hawks 2020 jumper numbers revealed".
  3. "Elite Athlete Program Profiles". Deakin University. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  4. "Mitchell Lewis". AFL Tables. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
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