Teia Miles


Teia Miles is a professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is a highly rated young midfielder, with the ability to play forward or back when required, and is renowned for his endurance.

AFL career

Miles was drafted by Hawthorn with their second selection and forty-ninth overall in the 2014 national draft. In 2016, Miles played 15 matches in the Victorian Football League for the before a broken collarbone late in the season ended his year. 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.
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.

Family

He is the son of former Collingwood, West Coast Eagles and Geelong player, Geoff Miles, and the cousin of former Carlton player and current Greater Western Sydney player, Dylan Buckley. Miles' sister is the wife of Geelong player, Mitch Duncan.

Statistics

! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2015
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2016
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2017
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2018
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2019
! colspan=3| Career
! 12 !! 5 !! 0 !! 114 !! 64 !! 178 !! 46 !! 22 !! 0.4 !! 0.0 !! 9.5 !! 5.3 !! 14.8 !! 3.8 !! 1.8

Honours and achievements

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