1. Callum Mills was born on 2 April 1997 and is a professional Australian rules footballer and current captain of the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League.
17 Facts About Callum Mills
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Callum Mills has been a co-captain of the club since 2022 and the sole captain since 2024.
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Callum Mills was born in Sydney and grew up on the Northern Beaches.
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Callum Mills was an avid Sydney Swans supporter as a child and idolised Swans' forward Tony Lockett.
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Callum Mills began playing Australian rules football at the age of four through the Auskick junior program, but gave the game away at seven years of age to play rugby union with his school friends.
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Callum Mills played representative junior rugby with Warringah Rugby Club's underage representative team which won three consecutive state championships alongside Brad Parker and Simon Kennewell.
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In 2010, aged 13, Callum Mills was approached by then-Sydney Swans chairman Andrew Pridham to fill in for the Mosman Swans junior Australian rules football team.
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Callum Mills impressed enough to be placed in the Sydney Swans talent academy later that year and gave up rugby union.
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Callum Mills later revealed the Swans' academy was the major influence in his decision to play Australian rules football instead of rugby union when he was a teenager.
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Callum Mills won the under 16's best and fairest at fourteen years of age for the Mosman Swans and he was ultimately named club champion in 2012.
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Callum Mills was selected by the Sydney Swans with their first selection and third overall in the 2015 national draft.
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Callum Mills was initially bid on by Melbourne, however Sydney matched the bid under the new live bidding rules implemented in the 2015 draft.
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Callum Mills was given the number 14 guernsey, made famous by three-time Brownlow Medallist and Australian football hall of famer, Bob Skilton and former club captain and Brownlow medallist, Paul Kelly.
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Callum Mills made his debut in the eighty point win against Collingwood, recording 18 disposals in round one, 2016.
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Callum Mills was ultimately the winner of the Rising Star, receiving the Ron Evans Medal with 49 votes out of a possible 50.
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Callum Mills became the third Sydney Swan to win the award.
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Callum Mills later became sole captain of the Swans ahead of the 2024 AFL season.