Dean Hewitt

Dean Hewitt
Curler
Born	(1994-11-09) 9 November 1994 (age 30) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [1]
Team
Curling club	Victorian Curling Association [2]
Skip	Hugh Millikin
Fourth	Dean Hewitt
Third	Tanner Davis
Second	Steve Johns
Alternate	Steve Hewitt
Mixed doubles partner	Tahli Gill
Curling career
Member Association	Australia
World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances	8 (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Pacific-Asia Championship appearances	6 (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Pan Continental Championship appearances	3 (2022, 2023, 2024)
Olympic appearances	1 (2022)

Dean Hewitt (born 9 November 1994) is an Australian curler from Melbourne. At the 2021 Olympic Curling Qualification Event in December 2021, Hewitt and his teammate Tahli Gill made history when they won qualification to the mixed doubles tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics. They are the first ever Australian curling team (in any curling discipline) to qualify for the Winter Olympics. ^[3]

Personal life

Hewitt is from a curling family. His mother, Canadian-born Lynn Hewitt, ^[4] played curling in Canada from her childhood. When she met Australian farmer Stephen (Steve) Hewitt, ^[5] she married him and they moved to Australia, and her husband began curling too. He was member of the Australian national men's team and played in several Pacific Curling Championships. Dean Hewitt began curling when he was 6 years old. ^{[6] [7]} Lynn and Dean together played as the Australian national mixed doubles curling team at the 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship ^{[8] [9]}

Hewitt studied a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science and a Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology at Deakin University. ^{[10] [11]} Outside of curling, Hewitt is a trained exercise physiologist, and works at an ice rink and a supermarket. ^[12]

Teams and events

Men's

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Coach	Events
2011–12	Angus Young	Dean Hewitt	Maxwell Thomas	Sam Williams	Grant Hamsey	Tim McMahon	AMCC 2011 PAJCC 2012 (5th)
2012–13	Maxwell Thomas	Dean Hewitt	Sam Williams	Grant Hamsey	Mitchell Thomas	Matt Panoussi	PAJCC 2013 (5th)
2013–14	Maxwell Thomas	Dean Hewitt	Mitchell Thomas	Grant Hamsey		Matt Panoussi	AMCC 2013 (4th) PAJCC 2014 (5th)
2014–15	Dean Hewitt	Maxwell Thomas	Mitchell Thomas	Grant Hamsey	Tyler Hogan	Matt Panoussi	PAJCC 2015 (5th)
	Ian Palangio	Jay Merchant	Dean Hewitt	Steve Johns		Archie Merchant	AMCC 2014 PACC 2014 (4th)
2015–16	Ian Palangio	Jay Merchant	Dean Hewitt	Derek Smith		Archie Merchant	PACC 2015 (5th)
2016–17	Ian Palangio	Jay Merchant	Dean Hewitt	Derek Smith		Archie Merchant	AMCC 2016 PACC 2016 (7th)
2017–18	Dean Hewitt (Fourth)	Ian Palangio	Christopher Ordog	Hugh Millikin (Skip)	Jay Merchant	Archie Merchant	AMCC 2017 PACC 2017 (4th)
2018–19	Dean Hewitt	Jay Merchant	Rupert Jones	Ian Palangio	Steve Johns		AMCC 2018
	Dean Hewitt (Fourth)	Jay Merchant (Skip)	Dustin Armstrong	Steve Johns		Bob Armstrong	PACC 2018 (7th)
2019–20	Dean Hewitt (Fourth)	Sean Hall (Skip)	Tanner Davis	Jay Merchant	Matthew Millikin	Archie Merchant	AMCC 2019 PACC 2019 (6th)
2022–23	Dean Hewitt (Fourth)	Jay Merchant (Skip)	Tanner Davis	Justin Grundy	Iain Grundy	Chad Merchant, Archie Merchant	AMCC 2022 PCCC 2022 (7th)
2023–24	Dean Hewitt (Fourth)	Jay Merchant (Skip)	Tanner Davis	Justin Grundy	Thomas Bence	Chad Merchant, Archie Merchant	AMCC 2023 PCCC 2023 (6th)
2024–25	Dean Hewitt (Fourth)	Steve Johns	Stephen Hewitt	Hugh Millikin (Skip)			AMCC 2024
	Dean Hewitt (Fourth)	Tanner Davis	Steve Johns	Hugh Millikin (Skip)	Steve Hewitt	Perry Marshall	PCCC 2024

Mixed doubles

Season	Female	Male	Coach	Events
2014–15	Kristen Tsourlenes	Dean Hewitt		AMDCC 2014
2015–16	Kristen Tsourlenes	Dean Hewitt		AMDCC 2015 [13]
2016–17	Lynn Hewitt	Dean Hewitt	Jay Merchant	AMDCC 2016 WMDCC 2017 (18th)
2017–18	Lynn Hewitt	Dean Hewitt	Pete Manasantivongs	AMDCC 2017 WMDCC 2018 (18th)
2018–19	Tahli Gill	Dean Hewitt	Pete Manasantivongs	AMDCC 2018 WMDCC 2019 (4th)
2019–20	Tahli Gill	Dean Hewitt		AMDCC 2019
2020–21	Tahli Gill	Dean Hewitt	Pete Manasantivongs	WMDCC 2021 (13th)
2021–22	Tahli Gill	Dean Hewitt	John Morris (OQE), Pete Manasantivongs	OQE 2021 WOG 2022 (10th) WMDCC 2022 (11th)
2022–23	Tahli Gill	Dean Hewitt	Laura Walker	AMDCC 2022 WMDCC 2023 (8th)
2023–24	Tahli Gill	Dean Hewitt	Perry Marshall	AMDCC 2023 WMDCC 2024 (15th)
2024–25	Tahli Gill	Dean Hewitt	Perry Marshall	WMDCC 2025 ()

References

1. "Dean HEWITT". Beijing 2022 Olympics . Retrieved 1 February 2022.^{[ dead link ‍]}
2. "Curling Victoria" . Retrieved 1 November 2018.
3. "Australia make history and qualify for Beijing 2022 Mixed Doubles Event". World Curling Federation. 9 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
4. Lynn Hewitt | WCF
5. Steve Hewitt | WCF
6. 2018 Winter Olympics | Pyeongchang: Australian Dean Hewitt on curling - PlayersVoice
7. "Dean Hewitt – Deakin Life". Archived from the original on 30 October 2018.
8. Australian Olympic Committee: Mother and son put Australia on the curling map
9. "World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2018 - Family ties on the ice at the World Mixed Doubles". Archived from the original on 30 October 2018. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
10. "The Beijing Winter Olympics begin this week: meet the Deakin students representing Australia!". Deakin Life. Deakin University. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
11. Webb, Emily (3 September 2014). "Glen Waverley home to national curling champion". Herald Sun. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
12. Bakalla, Ilias (20 December 2021). "Beach to Beijing: The young duo representing Australia for the first time in curling at the Winter Olympics". The Feed. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
13. "Australian Curling Federation - 2015 National Mixed Doubles Championships Results". Archived from the original on 29 July 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2019.

External links

• Dean Hewitt at World Curling
• Dean Hewitt at Olympics.com
• Dean Hewitt at the Australian Olympic Committee
• Dean Hewitt at Olympedia
• Dean Hewitt at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (archived)
• Dean Hewitt on Facebook