DOB: 15 February 2000
Debut: Round 1, 2019 vs Fremantle at Casey Fields
From: Cora Lynn/Beaconsfield/Gippsland Power/Carlton VFL, selection #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, 2023
Grand Final player - 2022 summer season
All Australian - 2025
Games: 87* (to end 2025)
Goals: 23*
Career statistics
| Wins | Draws | Losses | Winning % |
| 62 | 0 | 25 | 71.26 |
Statistical categories led:
Most games and Most goals in number 5
Most goals in number 28
Most tackles - 283
Most tackles in a season: 96 - 2025
Most average disposals in a season - 23.2 - ((2025 AFLW season)
Equal most finals - 10
Equal most frees against in a match - 5, Round 4, 2025
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. Hanks 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.
2023 was another successful year, as Hanks proved one of the best midfielders in the competition, again played every game, and was joint Best and Fairest winner. Hanks signed a four year contract extension at the end of the season. After a slow start to 2024 in an injury-hit midfield, Hanks recovered to finish second in the Best and Fairest. She played every game in Melbourne's 2025 return to the finals.
| 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 |
| 2023 | 12 | 6 | 12 |
| 2024 | 11 | 3 | 8 |
| 2025 | 14 | 4 | ? |
Lists
Rising Star
Media
melbournefc.com.au - 23/10/2018, 08/12/2023, melbournefc.com.au - 09/12/2023