Brad Sewell

Brad Sewell playing for Hawthorn during the 2007 AFL Season
Personal information
Birth	2 February 1984 (1984-02-02) (age 25)
Recruited from	Newlyn, North Ballarat's U/18
Height and weight	180cm / 86kg
Playing career¹
Debut	Round 3, 11 April 2004, Hawthorn vs. Port Adelaide, at AAMI Stadium
Team(s)	Hawthorn (2004-) 104 games, 16 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 2009 season
Career highlights
Peter Crimmins Medal (2007) AFL Premiership Player (2008)

Brad Sewell is an Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected with pick six in the rookie draft in 2003. He played his junior football at the Newlyn football club which is part of the Central Highlands Football League and later with the North Ballarat Rebels in U18 TAC Cup competition.

2006 proved to be his breakout year, when he was third in the club's Best and Fairest, collecting 130 votes behind Sam Mitchell and Luke Hodge. He played all 22 games for the season, and kicked his first and second goal in the last match of the year against Geelong.

Sewell is seen as one of the AFL's best taggers as he is able to gather the ball and still play his own game while limiting someone else's. A key player for Hawthorn and was the 2007 Peter Crimmins Medalist by one point to Campbell Brown.

On Saturday, 27th of September 2008, Sewell became a Premiership player, after the Hawks beat the reigning premiers Geelong in the Grand Final. Brad Sewell was magnificent. As Hawthorn knew long before most of us who shook our heads when he won the club best and fairest in 2007, he is an extremely good footballer, strong in mind and body, quick in his decision-making and a fine reader of the game. Sewell plays with a minimum of fuss and is little talked about because he stands behind Mitchell, who has rare and obvious class, and Hodge, who looks like he wandered in off the set of a Clint Eastwood movie.^[1]
In the final round of 2009 Hawthorn finals chance died when Brad Sewell suffered a fractured cheekbone and eye socket when he was ironed out in a shirtfront from Essendon captain Matthew Lloyd at the start of the third quarter. ^[2][3][4]

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