With Hawthorn's AFLW season set to kick off on Saturday night, it's a good time to get to know one of our latest draftees, Mattea Breed.
Nickname: Tea
Instagram handle: @matteabreed
Position: Forward
Draft History: Pick 4, 2023 Supplementary Draft
Senior Clubs: Norwood (SANFLW), North Adelaide (SANFLW)
Community Clubs: Darwin Buffettes (NT)
Bio: Breed was drafted to Hawthorn with Pick 4 in the AFLW Season Eight supplementary draft. The utility arrives at the Hawks from North Adelaide in the SANFLW, where the 21-year-old averaged 14.3 disposals to go with six goals. As a Darwin Buffaloes junior, Breed won the NTFL under 18 competition’s Best and Fairest awards in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons as well as the league’s Women’s Rising Star honour in 2018/19.
Honours:
- NTFL U18 best and fairest (2016/17 & 2017/18)
- NTFL Women’s Rising Star (2018/19)
Three things you might not know about Tea:
1. Her name is pronounced as 'Matt-Ee-Ah' and means 'gift of God'.
2. She was born and raised in Darwin.
3. She's a huge country music fan and has a tattoo of a Luke Combs song on her chest.
