David Mirra (born 20 March 1991) is a former professional
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played for the
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawth ...
in the
Australian Football League
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(AFL). Following his AFL career, he joined
Collegians Football Club
Collegians Football Club, nicknamed the Lions, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park.
Formed in 1892, it is the second-oldest club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), after Melbou ...
in the
VAFA
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competition, before retiring at the end of the
2023 season.
VFL career
As a young player who was no longer eligible for junior football, Mirra joined the in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL) in 2010. In his first season with the club, he played just one senior game, spending the rest of the season playing in the development team which won the premiership. From 2011 onward, Mirra was a regular senior player for Box Hill. He became a solid and dependable
defender and had been selected for the VFL in state representative matches on three occasions. In
2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
, Mirra led Box Hill to a grand final win after club captain,
Daniel Pratt, was unable to play because of injury. He has been named in the VFL team of the year four times and won the club
best and fairest
In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
in 2016 having previously been runner-up on four occasions.
To the end of the 2019 season; Mirra has played 155 senior games for Box Hill and captained the side for four seasons from 2014 to 2017.
He has captained the Box Hill Hawks in 78 matches, a club record.
AFL career
Mirra was drafted by Hawthorn with their second selection and twenty-third overall in the
2018 rookie draft.
[ He made his AFL debut in the sixty-seven point win against at the ]Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as the 'G, is a sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the Lis ...
in round four of the 2018 season. Mirra played 7 games in his debut season including the semi-final loss to . He was promoted to the main list at the end of the season.
Mirra played four games in his second season before getting delisted at the end of the year.
Statistics
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This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
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Honours and achievements
Team
* 2× VFL premiership player (): 2013, 2018
* Minor premiership (): 2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
Individual
* VFL premiership captain: 2013
* Norm Goss Memorial Medal
The Norm Goss Memorial Medal is awarded to the player judged to be the best afield in the Victorian Football League grand final.
It is named after former player and administrator Norm Goss Sr.
When the competition was split into two divisions ...
: 2018
* 2× Col Austen Trophy: 2016, 2019
* 3× VFL Representative: 2013, 2014, 2016
* 4× VFL Team of the Year: 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mirra, David
1991 births
Living people
Hawthorn Football Club players
Box Hill Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Eastern Ranges players