Sean Lemmens

Sean Lemmens
Lemmens playing for Gold Coast in May 2019
Personal information
Full name Sean Lemmens
Date of birth (1994-11-02) 2 November 1994 (age 30)
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
Years Club Games (Goals)
2014– Gold Coast 148 (25)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (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.

Early career

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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

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

Statistics

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Statistics are correct to the end of 2024[6]
Legend
  G  
Goals
  K  
Kicks
  D  
Disposals 
  T  
Tackles
  B  
Behinds 
  H  
Handballs 
  M  
Marks
Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game)
G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
2014 Gold Coast 40 18 3 0 145 90 235 40 41 0.2 0.0 8.1 5.0 13.1 2.2 2.3
2015 Gold Coast 40 18 3 4 102 89 191 51 52 0.2 0.2 5.7 4.9 10.6 2.8 2.9
2016 Gold Coast 23 13 1 2 93 76 169 43 30 0.1 0.2 7.2 5.8 13.0 3.3 2.3
2017 Gold Coast 23 20 9 13 124 122 246 48 60 0.5 0.7 6.2 6.1 12.3 2.4 3.0
2018 Gold Coast 23 10 1 7 65 48 113 22 37 0.1 0.7 6.5 4.8 11.3 2.2 3.7
2019 Gold Coast 23 8 4 1 55 29 84 15 36 0.5 0.1 6.9 3.6 10.5 1.9 4.5
2020[a] Gold Coast 23 6 4 0 29 19 48 7 9 0.7 0.0 4.8 3.2 8.0 1.2 1.5
2021 Gold Coast 23 21 0 0 196 72 268 76 44 0.0 0.0 9.3 3.4 12.8 3.6 2.1
2022 Gold Coast 23 20 0 0 184 59 243 79 50 0.0 0.0 9.2 3.0 12.2 4.0 2.5
2023 Gold Coast 23 11 0 1 83 22 105 38 19 0.0 0.1 7.5 2.0 9.5 3.5 1.7
2024 Gold Coast 23 3 0 0 24 13 37 6 9 0.0 0.0 8.0 4.3 12.3 2.0 3.0
Career 148 25 28 1100 639 1739 425 387 0.2 0.2 7.4 4.3 11.8 2.9 2.6

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

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

References

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  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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