Freakish Sporting Feats | Kyle Mueller

By Gus Underwood

Apr 23, 2025

Congupna's Kyle Mueller. Photo by Aidan Briggs

His peers labelled him the “The Wiz’’ as a teenager, and it’s proving an appropriate tag.

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The Wiz is Kyabram’s Kyle Mueller, who is in the prime of his sporting life and arguably the Goulburn Valley’s premier sportsman considering his deeds on both the cricket pitch and football field and beyond for the last 15 years.

The cropping farmer was good at these mainstream sports from the moment he started playing them.

A young man of few words but with a generous helping of one-in-a-lifetime generation of sporting ability, The Wiz has always let his actions do the talking for his freakish ability.

He once bagged 13 goals in an under-14s game in the Goulburn Murray Junior Football League to display some of his now renowned elusive brilliance, marking power and kicking accuracy.

And in cricket he announced himself very early as a batsman, ’keeper and fielder well above his teammates.

In the Kyabram and District League premiership showdown against cross-town rival Fire Brigade in the 2011-12 season, he and another talented youngster Matt Ryan looked the only Kyabram batsmen at ease against a potent Brigade bowling attack headed by former Victorian seconds representative David Newman.

In that year Mueller was selected in the KDCA’s representative side for Melbourne Country Cricket Week, recognised as the holy grail of competition for country cricketers.

He was just 13 years of age and still is the youngest player ever to represent the KDCA at the Melbourne carnival.

And with the folding of the KDCA at the end of the 2011-12 season it means it is a record that will stand for eternity.

There was more historic glory for The Wiz early last year when led the Kyabram Cricket Club side to its first Haisman Shield premiership in the top tier of pennant cricket in the Cricket Shepparton competition.

Personally, he had played a key role during the home-and-away season with the most runs - 612 - in this competition during the regular season and also the previous season.

And this year he took this title again with 762 runs for the home-and-away season at the mind-blowing average of 108.

Some pundits believe he could even become the first Cricket Shepparton batsman to make 1000 runs in a season.

The modern-day Cricket Shepparton Haisman Shield record of most runs in a season held by Central Park St Brendan’s Sam Ahmet who made 831 in the 2006-07 season, Mooroopna’s Brad Lowe who compiled 753 in the 2002-03 season and CPSTB’s Rohan Larkin with 749 in the 2004-05 season.

But it’s football not cricket behind my decision to include Kyle Mueller in my series of Freakish Sporting Feats.

He topped the GVL goal kicking list in 2019 with 66 goals but was always among the league’s leading goal kickers in his time with the Bombers.

He switched to Murray Football League club Congupna last year where he proceeded to kick 100 goals – his 100th coming in the grand final - and helped the club win its first ever flag in the league and end a long premiership drought for the club.

But his most productive day at the goal front last year was what got everyone talking about.

It was in round 17 against Barooga at Barooga where he weaved his well-known wizardry.

He kicked 15 goals and one behind in that game.

Yes, one behind and 15 goals.

Now that’s a freakish strike rate almost most unheard of…..but something not entirely unexpected from the man they call The Wiz.