Sean Lemmens

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Sean Lemmens
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Lemmens playing for Gold Coast in May 2019
Personal information
Full name Sean Lemmens
Date of birth (1994-11-02) 2 November 1994 (age 29)
Original team(s) Port Adelaide (SANFL)
Draft No. 27, 2013 National Draft (Gold Coast)
Height 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 81 kg (179 lb)
Position(s) Medium Defender
Club information
Current club Gold Coast
Number 23
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2014– Gold Coast 148 (25)
Representative team honours
YearsTeamGames (Goals)
2015 Indigenous All-Stars 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2024.
2 State and international statistics correct as of 2015.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Sean Lemmens (born 2 November 1994) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is of Indigenous Australian heritage.

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Early career

Lemmens was born into a family of Indigenous Australian descent (Tiwi). [1] He began playing junior football for the Salisbury Football Club and moved to the Port Adelaide Magpies. [2] He progressed his way through the junior ranks at Port Adelaide before solidifying a reserves spot in the 2013. He debuted for the Magpies senior team in the final round of the 2013 SANFL season. He was also selected to represent South Australia in the 2013 AFL Under 18 Championships, where he was noticed by Gold Coast defensive coach, Dean Solomon. [3]

Leading into the 2013 AFL Draft, Lemmens was considered by some to be a rookie chance at best. He was drafted with the 27th pick in the 2013 National Draft by the Gold Coast Suns. [4]

AFL career

Lemmens made his senior debut for the Suns against Richmond in Round 1 of the 2014 season. [5]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of 2024 [6]
Legend
  G  
 Goals
  K  
 Kicks
  D  
 Disposals  
  T  
 Tackles
  B  
 Behinds  
  H  
 Handballs  
  M  
 Marks
SeasonTeamNo.GamesTotalsAverages (per game)
GBKHDMTGBKHDMT
2014 Gold Coast 4018301459023540410.20.08.15.013.12.22.3
2015 Gold Coast 4018341028919151520.20.25.74.910.62.82.9
2016 Gold Coast 231312937616943300.10.27.25.813.03.32.3
2017 Gold Coast 232091312412224648600.50.76.26.112.32.43.0
2018 Gold Coast 231017654811322370.10.76.54.811.32.23.7
2019 Gold Coast 2384155298415360.50.16.93.610.51.94.5
2020 [lower-alpha 1] Gold Coast 23640291948790.70.04.83.28.01.21.5
2021 Gold Coast 2321001967226876440.00.09.33.412.83.62.1
2022 Gold Coast 2320001845924379500.00.09.23.012.24.02.5
2023 Gold Coast 231101832210538190.00.17.52.09.53.51.7
2024 Gold Coast 23300241337690.00.08.04.312.32.03.0
Career1482528110063917394253870.20.27.44.311.82.92.6

Notes

  1. ↑ The 2020 season was played with 17 home-and-away matches per team (down from 22) and 16-minute quarters with time on (down from 20-minute quarters with time on) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personal life

Lemmens' partner is former Gold Coast teammate Izak Rankine's cousin [7] and Lemmens' daughter is Rankine's second niece. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Gold Coast SUNS - Reconciliation Action Plan 2017-2019" (PDF), Goldcoastfc.com.au, 22 November 2017
  2. ↑ "Young Magpie flies north", Portadelaidefc.com.au, 22 November 2013, archived from the original on 1 December 2013
  3. ↑ Whiting, Michael (24 April 2014). "Sunshine spreading as Lemmens delivers ripple effect". AFL.com.au.
  4. ↑ Homfray, Reece (21 November 2013), "Gold Coast take chance on Sean Lemmens", The Advertiser
  5. ↑ Jackson, Ed (16 March 2014), "Suns shine in final term burst against stubborn Tigers", Canberra Times
  6. ↑ "Sean Lemmens". AFL Tables. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  7. ↑ "AFL.com.au's time inside the SUNS". Gold Coast Suns. 9 May 2019.
  8. ↑ "Gold Coast Suns Izak Rankine and Sean Lemmens open up about stripping weight ahead of the 2020 AFL season". Gold Coast Bulletin. 22 January 2020.
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