AFTER 13 seasons with the Club, midfielder Chance Bateman will retire at the conclusion of the Hawks' 2012 finals campaign.
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Bateman was the third Indigenous player drafted to the Club, and became the second Indigenous player to earn a berth in the senior team when he debuted in Round 3, 2000.
At the Club’s AGM in December 2010, he was awarded Hawthorn Life Membership - the first Indigenous player to achieve the accolade.
The 31-year-old was a member of Hawthorn’s 2008 premiership team, and took out the Hawks’ Best Clubman award at its Peter Crimmins Medal event that year.
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