DOB: 15 February 2000
Debut: Round 1, 2019 vs Fremantle at Casey Fields
From: Cora Lynn/Beaconsfield/Gippsland Power/Carlton VFL, Pick #6, 2018 AFLW National Draft
Number: 28 (2019-2020), 5 (2021-)
Honours:
Premiership player - 2022 spring season
Rising Star - Round 3, 2021
Rising Star winner - 2021
Best and Fairest - 2021
Grand Final player - 2022 summer season
Games: 49* (to end 2022 spring)
Goals: 10*
Career statistics
| Wins | Draws | Losses | Winning % |
| 38 | 0 | 11 | 77.55 |
Statistical categories led:
Equal most tackles in a game: 12 - 2022 spring season Preliminary Final
Most tackles - (234)
Most tackles in a season: 78 - 2022 spring season
Forward/midfielder drafted with Melbourne's first selection in the third AFLW draft. She had been a 2017 All-Australian, and was named in a 2018 Academy squad the next year.
Played every game for her first two seasons, before a breakout 2021 campaign where she won the league's Rising Star award. In 2022 she topped Melbourne's tally in the AFLW B&F award and finished equal third in the Best and Fairest. Hanks played every game in Melbourne's 2022 spring season premiership campaign, and was again one of her side's most important midfielders.
| Year | Games | Goals | AFL B&F |
| 2019 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2 | 8 |
| 2022 summer | 11 | 2 | 8 |
| 2022 spring | 13 | 3 | 2 |
Lists
Rising Star
Media
melbournefc.com.au - 23/10/2018
Links
Wikipedia profile