Dean Hewitt

Dean Hewitt (born 9 November 1994) is an Australian curler from Melbourne. Hewitt and his former teammate Tahli Gill made history in 2022 as the first ever Australian curling team (in any curling discipline) to qualify for the Winter Olympics. Hewitt and Gill are also the first Australian team to ever win a World Curling Championship title, winning the 2026 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

Career Hewitt first played mixed doubles with his mother, Lynn Hewitt. Lynn and Dean together played as the Australian national mixed doubles curling team at the 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship

At the 2019 World Mixed Doubles Championship, Hewitt and his new teammate Tahli Gill made it to the semifinals before being eliminated by Sweden's Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson. In the bronze medal match, they again lost to John Shuster and Cory Christensen from the United States. Their fourth-place finish was the best finish ever for an Australian team at any World Curling Championship to that point. Gill and Hewitt were qualified for the 2020 World Mixed Doubles Championship, but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the 2021 Olympic Curling Qualification Event in December 2021, Gill and Hewitt made history when they won qualification to the mixed doubles tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics. They are the first ever Australian curling team (in any curling discipline) to qualify for the Winter Olympics. At the Olympics, they finished with a 2–7 record, finishing in 10th place.

Gill and Hewitt would continue to find success in mixed doubles in the next Olympic quadrennial from 2022–26, performing well on the mixed doubles curling tour and consistently being ranked as one of the top 5 teams in the world. They would also notably win a bronze medal at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. This success would allow them to compete in the 2025 Olympic Qualification Event in the hopes of representing Australia at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Gill and Hewitt would finish round robin play with a 6–1 record, qualifying for the playoffs, but would lose to South Korea's Kim Seon-yeong and Jeong Yeong-seok 10–5 in the final qualification game, failing to reach the Olympics. However, Gill and Hewitt would bounce back at the 2026 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, where they would finish 8–1 after the round robin and after beating Italy in the semifinals, would go on to defeat Sweden's Therese Westman and Robin Ahlberg 8–4 in the gold medal game to win their first world championship, as well as the first world championship title in curling ever for Australia. Hewitt is from a curling family, as his mother and former mixed doubles partner, Canadian-born Lynn Hewitt, played curling in Canada from her childhood. When she met Australian farmer Stephen (Steve) Hewitt, she married him and they moved to Australia, and her husband began curling too. Steve was member of the Australian national men's team and played in several Pacific Curling Championships.

Hewitt studied a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science and a Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology at Deakin University. Outside of curling, Hewitt is a trained exercise physiologist, and works at an ice rink and a supermarket.

Teams and events Men's Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events 2011–12 Angus Young Dean Hewitt Maxwell Thomas Sam Williams Grant Hamsey Tim McMahon AMCC 2011 PAJCC 2012 (5th) 2012–13 Maxwell Thomas Dean Hewitt Sam Williams Grant Hamsey Mitchell Thomas Matt Panoussi PAJCC 2013 (5th) 2013–14 Maxwell Thomas Dean Hewitt Mitchell Thomas Grant Hamsey Matt Panoussi AMCC 2013 (4th) PAJCC 2014 (5th) 2014–15 Dean Hewitt Maxwell Thomas Mitchell Thomas Grant Hamsey Tyler Hogan Matt Panoussi PAJCC 2015 (5th) Ian Palangio Jay Merchant Dean Hewitt Steve Johns Archie Merchant AMCC 2014 (4th) 2015–16 Ian Palangio Jay Merchant Dean Hewitt Derek Smith Archie Merchant (5th) 2016–17 Ian Palangio Jay Merchant Dean Hewitt Derek Smith Archie Merchant AMCC 2016 (7th) 2017–18 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Ian Palangio Christopher Ordog Hugh Millikin (Skip) Jay Merchant Archie Merchant AMCC 2017 (4th) 2018–19 Dean Hewitt Jay Merchant Rupert Jones Ian Palangio Steve Johns AMCC 2018 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Jay Merchant (Skip) Dustin Armstrong Steve Johns Bob Armstrong (7th) 2019–20 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Sean Hall (Skip) Tanner Davis Jay Merchant Matthew Millikin Archie Merchant AMCC 2019 (6th) 2022–23 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Jay Merchant (Skip) Tanner Davis Justin Grundy Iain Grundy Chad Merchant,Archie Merchant AMCC 2022 PCCC 2022 (7th) 2023–24 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Jay Merchant (Skip) Tanner Davis Justin Grundy Thomas Bence Chad Merchant,Archie Merchant AMCC 2023 PCCC 2023 (6th) 2024–25 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Steve Johns Stephen Hewitt Hugh Millikin (Skip) AMCC 2024 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Tanner Davis Steve Johns Hugh Millikin (Skip) Steve Hewitt Perry Marshall

Mixed doubles Season Female Male Coach Events 2014–15 Kristen Tsourlenes Dean Hewitt AMDCC 2014 2015–16 Kristen Tsourlenes Dean Hewitt AMDCC 2015 2016–17 Lynn Hewitt Dean Hewitt Jay Merchant AMDCC 2016 (18th) 2017–18 Lynn Hewitt Dean Hewitt Pete Manasantivongs AMDCC 2017 (18th) 2018–19 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Pete Manasantivongs AMDCC 2018 (4th) 2019–20 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt AMDCC 2019 2020–21 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Pete Manasantivongs (13th) 2021–22 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt John Morris (OQE),Pete Manasantivongs OQE 2021 WOG 2022 (10th) (11th) 2022–23 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Laura Walker AMDCC 2022 (8th) 2023–24 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Perry Marshall AMDCC 2023 (15th) 2024–25 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Perry Marshall 2025–26 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Perry Marshall OQE 2025 2026–27 Jessica Wytrychowski Dean Hewitt Perry Marshall