The partner of West Coast Eagles premiership hero Mark Hutchings has tragically died just days after giving birth to the couple\u2019s first child.<\/p>\n
Hutchings took to social media on Thursday evening to announce the horrific news of his partner Hannah\u2019s death, two days after the birth of their daughter Sofia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with deep sadness that I share the sudden loss of my beautiful partner, Hannah \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udc94,\u201d Hutchings said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer dream was to become a Mum, so it\u2019s been incredibly difficult to take.<\/p>\n
\u201cSofia and I love you and will miss you very much Hannah \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udc94.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is believed the couple had been together since 2022.<\/p>\n
Hutchings\u2019 followers flooded to the comments to offer their condolences, including several of his former West Coast Eagles teammates.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2764\ufe0f thinking of you mate. Sending all our love your way,\u201d Mark LeCras said.<\/p>\n
\u201c\ud83d\ude22 \u2764\ufe0f You\u2019ll be an amazing Dad!!\u201d Brad Sheppard said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLove you Hutchy, always here for you,\u201d Jack Darling said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeen thinking of you everyday Hutch, no words will ever be enough. Praying for you and your beautiful Sofia,\u201d Darling\u2019s wife Courtney said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so sorry, and sending so much love to you and Sofia, Hutch. You\u2019ve been in our thoughts,\u201d Lily Cole, wife of Eagles player Tom Cole, wrote.<\/p>\n
Jack Redden, Bailey WIlliams, Jamie Cripps, Harry Edwards, and Jack Petruccelle also commented heart emojis on the post.<\/p>\n
Hutchings grew up in Perth and was drafted by St Kilda in 2008, before he was delisted in 2010 without playing a senior game for the Victorian club.<\/p>\n
He returned to Western Australia and played for West Perth in the WAFL, and came second in the 2012 Sandover Medal.<\/p>\n
Hutchings was selected by the West Coast Eagles in the 2012 National Draft at pick 60.<\/p>\n
He played 120 games and scored 46 goals for the Eagles as a tagger, including a starring role in the club\u2019s premiership win in 2018.<\/p>\n
He retired in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The partner of West Coast Eagles premiership hero Mark Hutchings has tragically died just days after giving birth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,14660,588,85],"class_list":["post-903770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-community-news","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}