Dean Hewitt | |
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Born | 9 November 1994 |
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 | ![]() |
World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances | 7 (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) |
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]
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]
Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
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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 |
Season | Female | Male | Coach | Events |
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2014–15 | Kristen Tsourlenes | Dean Hewitt | AMDCC 2014 ![]() | |
2015–16 | Kristen Tsourlenes | Dean Hewitt | AMDCC 2015 ![]() | |
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 |
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