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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 (age 24)
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	51 (84)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2022 season.
Career highlights
VFL premiership player: 2018 Box Hill leading goalkicker: 2018
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. On Round 2 2022, Lewis kicked a career-best haul of 5 goals. [2]

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 the 2022 season.[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
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[lower-alpha 1]	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
Career			51	84	43	331	179	510	212	71	1.6	0.9	6.5	3.5	10.0	4.2	1.4	3

Notes

Honours and achievements

Team

• VFL premiership player (Box Hill): 2018

Individual

• Box Hill leading goalkicker: 2018
• Hawthorn most improved player: 2022
• Hawthorn most promising player: 2019
• AFL Rising Star nominee: 2019

References

External links

• 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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