Australian rules football player
Mitchell Lewis
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Mitchell Lewis is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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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).
Mitchell Lewis was born on 14 October 1998. He attended primary school at Wallan Primary School, in Wallan, Victoria, before later attending Assumption College, in Kilmore, graduating from the latter in 2016. He played junior football for the Whittlesea Football Club. A multi-sport athlete as a junior, Lewis had to choose between football, cricket, and golf. Lewis chose football and played for the Calder Cannons, despite playing district cricket and playing off a golfing handicap of 1.
Lewis was drafted by Hawthorn with their second selection and seventy-sixth overall in the 2016 AFL draft.
Lewis played 13 games for Box Hill in the Victorian Football League (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, kicking 38 goals in the VFL in the 2018 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 ahead of the 2020 season. In round 2, 2022, Lewis kicked a career-best haul of 5 goals.
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. Lewis returned to playing in the middle of the 2025 season.
Lewis entered his free agency year in the 2026 season.
Lewis is a key forward who can pinch-hit as a back-up ruckman.
Lewis studied a Bachelor of Sport Development at Deakin University.
McClelland Trophy (Hawthorn): 2024
VFL premiership player (Box Hill): 2018
Box Hill leading goalkicker: 2018
AFL Rising Star nominee: 2019
Updated to the end of round 22, 2026.