Hayes at training prior to the 2009 AFL Grand FinalHayes sporting his famous No. 7 jumper
Lenny Hayes (born 14 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 1999 to 2014. He is currently an assistant coach at the St Kilda Football Club.
Growing up in Sydney, Hayes played TAC Cup football for the NSW/ACT Rams. He was recruited by St Kilda with the 11th pick in the 1998 National Draft and made his senior debut in round five of the 1999 season. He was nominated for the AFL Rising Star Award later in the year as well. Hayes was a first-choice player for St Kilda for virtually his whole career, other than in two seasons (2006 and 2011) where he would require knee reconstructions. After playing 297 games and kicking 95 goals, he retired at the end of the 2014 season.
Hayes would establish himself as one of the best midfielders in the league. He was named in the All-Australian team three times (in 2003, 2005 and 2009) and placed third in the 2009 Brownlow Medal (behind Gary Ablett and Chris Judd). Hayes was a three-time winner of the Trevor Barker Award as St Kilda's best and fairest player (in 2003, 2010 and 2012). He also spent two seasons as St Kilda's captain – in 2004 as sole captain and in 2007 as co-captain, alongside both Luke Ball and Nick Riewoldt. Hayes played in three Grand Finals without tasting premiership success, but won the Norm Smith Medal for his performance in the drawn 2010 AFL Grand Final. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2020.[1]
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LennyHayes (born 14 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football...
clearance work that St Kilda was able to build their late-quarter recovery. LennyHayes was instrumental in St Kilda's clearance work, acting as third-man-up...
The ceremony also includes the Robert Harvey Best Clubman Award, the LennyHayes Crest Player Award, the Best Emerging Player Award, and the publicly...
(2009–10) Nurse. Louis Edmonds (1979–95) He came to Pine Valley as con man Lenny Vlasik (posing as Professor Wallingford), but Myrtle Fargate knew him from...
to Nat Fyfe in the 2015 Brownlow Medal count. In 2017, Priddis broke LennyHayes' record for the most career tackles in the AFL, becoming the first player...
Retrieved 27 June 2018. Green, Warwick (15 July 2014). "Humble Saint LennyHayes a true champion". news.com.au. News Corp Australia. Archived from the...
lost star midfielder LennyHayes to a knee ligament problem and the captain, Luke Ball, was also struggling with injury. In Hayes absence Dal Santo began...
the voting for the Norm Smith Medal, with seven votes and his teammate LennyHayes won it with 13 votes. He is also remembered for taking a memorable high...
(Sydney) Nick Maxwell (Collingwood) Centre Leigh Montagna (St Kilda) LennyHayes (St Kilda) Joel Selwood (Geelong) Half-forward Paul Chapman (Geelong)...
league history and had an attendance of 100,016. St Kilda midfielder LennyHayes won the Norm Smith Medal for the player judged the best on ground in...
of Carlton who received 30 votes. The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to LennyHayes of St Kilda for the drawn Grand Final. Scott Pendlebury was awarded the...
Riewoldt Co-Captain of the St Kilda Football Club, along with Luke Ball and LennyHayes, both former captains themselves. Back and hamstring injuries forced...
with 17 against Fremantle in round 15. This led to Steele winning the "LennyHayes Player Trademark award" for 2017, although he finished 18th in the club's...
career total was 1490 tackles, which was the record until surpassed by LennyHayes late in 2014. On 26 August 2013, Bolton announced he would retire at...
(Hawthorn) Centre Nick Dal Santo (St Kilda) Scott West (Western Bulldogs) LennyHayes (St Kilda) Half-forward Mark Ricciuto (Adelaide) (c) Matthew Pavlich...
Dane Swan and St Kilda midfielders Leigh Montagna, Nick Dal Santo and LennyHayes. Ablett's win was overshadowed by the behaviour of Carlton full-forward...
first season as St Kilda captain. In 2007 Ball was co-captain along with LennyHayes and Riewoldt. He played a total of 18 games of the home and away season...
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