Teia Miles | |
Fullname: | Teia Miles |
Birth Date: | 2 November 1996 |
Originalteam: | Geelong Falcons (TAC Cup) |
Draftpick: | No. 49, 2014 national draft |
Debutdate: | Round 2, 2017 |
Debutstadium: | Melbourne Cricket Ground |
Height: | 180 cm |
Weight: | 70 kg |
Position: | Midfielder |
Years1: | 2015–2019 |
Games Goals1: | 12 (5) |
Years2: | 2015–2019 |
Club2: | (VFL) |
Games Goals2: | 81 (51) |
Years3: | 2021–2022 |
Club3: | (VFL) |
Games Goals3: | 25 (2) |
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Teia Miles (born 2 November 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a highly rated young midfielder, with the ability to play forward or back when required, and is renowned for his endurance.[1]
Miles was drafted by Hawthorn with their second selection and forty-ninth overall in the 2014 national draft.[2] In 2016, Miles played 15 matches in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the before a broken collarbone late in the season ended his year.[3] After two years in the AFL, he made his debut in the twenty-four point loss to at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in round 2, 2017.[4]
In 2018 he played the last eight games of the regular season only to be dropped for the finals campaign. He returned to Box Hill where he was an important member of the VFL premiership side.
He was delisted by Hawthorn at end of the 2019 AFL season.
In 2021, Miles joined in the Victorian Football League.[5] In 2022, he played his 100th VFL game.[6]
At the end of the 2022 VFL season, Miles was signed by in the West Australian Football League.[7]
He is the son of former Collingwood, West Coast Eagles and Geelong player, Geoff Miles,[8] and the cousin of former Carlton and Greater Western Sydney player, Dylan Buckley. Miles' sister is married to Geelong player, Mitch Duncan.[9]
|- style=background:#EAEAEA| 2015 || || 42| 0 || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || 0|-| 2016 || || 42| 0 || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || 0|- style=background:#EAEAEA| 2017 || || 42| 4 || 3 || 0 || 25 || 18 || 43 || 13 || 5 || 0.8 || 0.0 || 6.3 || 4.5 || 10.8 || 3.3 || 1.3 || 0|-| 2018 || || 42| 8 || 2 || 0 || 89 || 46 || 135 || 33 || 17 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 11.1 || 5.8 || 16.9 || 4.1 || 2.1 || 0|- style=background:#EAEAEA| 2019 || || 42| 0 || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || 0|- class="sortbottom"! colspan=3| Career[10] ! 12 !! 5 !! 0 !! 114 !! 64 !! 178 !! 46 !! 22 !! 0.4 !! 0.0 !! 9.5 !! 5.3 !! 14.8 !! 3.8 !! 1.8 !! 0|}
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