Thomas Anthony Hazelton (born 22 January 1999) is an Australian professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

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who plays as a for the

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the Sutherland Shire of Southern Sydney, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. Cronulla compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugb ...

in the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Austral ...

(NRL).

Background

Hazelton grew up in

Goulburn Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, approximately south-west of Sydney and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters patent by Queen Victor ...

and played his junior rugby league for the Goulburn Stockmen.

Career

2022

Hazelton made his first grade debut for

Cronulla Cronulla is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Boasting numerous surf beaches and swimming spots, the suburb attracts both tourists and Greater Sydney residents. Cronulla is 26 kilometres south of the Sydney central ...

against the

Sydney Roosters Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club, known as the Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs. The club competes in the National Rugby Lea ...

in (Indigenous Round) round 12 of the

2022 NRL season The 2022 NRL season was the 115th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 25th season run by the National Rugby League. Teams The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 16th consecutive year. This became the second longest ...

, in a 36–16 loss and became Cronulla player number 552.

2023

Hazelton played a total of 18 games for Cronulla in the

2023 NRL season The 2023 NRL season was the 116th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 26th season run by the National Rugby League. The season consisted of 27 competition rounds, the longest in league history, followed by a finals series ...

as Cronulla finished sixth on the table. Hazelton played in the club's 13–12 upset loss against the

which ended their season.

2024

Hazelton played 25 games for Cronulla in the

2024 NRL season The 2024 NRL season was the 117th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 27th season run by the National Rugby League (NRL). The season consisted of 27 competition rounds, followed by a finals series contested by the top eight ...

as the club finished 4th on the table and qualified for the finals. Hazelton played in all three of Cronulla's finals matches including their preliminary final loss against Penrith.

2025

Hazleton re-signed with the Cronulla outfit on a three-year deal. On 10 March, Cronulla officially confirmed that he had re-signed with the club until the end of 2028. On 29 May, it was announced that Hazelton would miss at least 12 weeks with a collarbone injury.

Statistics

NRL

: ''Statistics are correct as of the end of the 2023 season''

References

External links

Cronulla Sharks profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hazelton, Thomas 1999 births Living people Australian rugby league players Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks players Newtown Jets NSW Cup players Rugby league players from Goulburn, New South Wales Rugby league props 21st-century Australian sportsmen