Tom Mitchell

Tom Mitchell is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans, the Hawthorn Football Club and the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League. Born on 31 May 1993, the son of former Sydney, Collingwood and Carlton player Barry Mitchell, he grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell and finished his schooling at Hale School in Perth. Drafted by Sydney under the father-son rule in 2011, he moved to Hawthorn in 2017, broke the record for disposals in a home-and-away season that year and set the record of 54 disposals in a single game in 2018. He won the 2018 Brownlow Medal, the Peter Crimmins Medal, the Leigh Matthews Trophy and the Lou Richards Medal, and joined Collingwood in 2023, winning that year's Grand Final and his first premiership.