Jack Hutchins is a former professional
Australian rules football
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er who played for the
Gold Coast Football Club
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The club has been playing in the AFL since the ...
in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL). He has played with the
Casey Scorpions
The Casey Football Club, nicknamed the "Demons" and formerly the "Scorpions", is an Australian rules football club based in Cranbourne East, Victoria. The club, which was known until 2005 as the Springvale Football Club and the Casey Scorpions ...
in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL) since 2015, and he has served as the captain since the 2016 season.
Originally from
Mansfield, Victoria, he attended
Haileybury College, Melbourne and played for the
Sandringham Dragons
The Sandringham Dragons are an Australian rules football club playing in the NAB League, the top statewide under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. They are based at the Trevor Barker Oval in Sandringham, Victoria, representing the southern ...
in the
TAC Cup
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. Hutchins was a promising junior swimmer and swam in the national swimming championships in 2009. He was recruited by Gold Coast as one of the club's underage recruits prior to their entry to the AFL in
2011
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. Hutchins made his debut in round 5, 2011 against . After nineteen matches with Gold Coast in four seasons, he was delisted at the conclusion of the 2014 season, and he joined the Casey Scorpions in the VFL. His second season with Casey saw him win the Gardner Medal as the club
best and fairest
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player.
Hutchins captained Casey to Grand Finals in 2016 and 2018 but the team "were on the wrong side of the win in those grand finals, however those three years we had some really awesome finals wins, as the club hadn’t won any finals for a few years." Hutchins retired from the VFL at the end of 2021 and moved back to his hometown of Mansfield to play football for the town in the Gouldburn Valley League.
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1992 births
Living people
People educated at Haileybury (Melbourne)
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Gold Coast Football Club players
Sandringham Dragons players
Casey Demons players
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