Full name Shaun Hart Height 1.75 m Name Shaun Hart | Position(s) Midfielder Height/Weight 175cm / 75kg Weight 75 kg | |
Date of birth (1971-05-17) 17 May 1971 (age 44) Place of birth Ferntree Gully, Victoria Draft 33, 1989
Brisbane Bears Role Australian Rules Footballer Original team Shepparton United Football Club | ||
AFL Premiership Player - Shaun Hart
Shaun Hart (born 17 May 1971) is a former Australian rules football player, who played for the Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League. Hart played in the Lions Hatrick of premierships from 2001-2003, as utility player. He is currently the director of coaching at Port Adelaide Power and has also been an assistant coach.
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- AFL Premiership Player Shaun Hart
- Shaun hart press conference
- Early life
- AFL career
- Post playing career
- References
Shaun hart press conference
Early life
He was born in Ferntree Gully, Victoria and moved to country Victoria where he played for the Shepparton United Football Club.
Hart was recruited to the Brisbane Bears from Shepparton in the 1989 national VFL draft.
AFL career
Shaun Hart played his first senior game in the first match of the 1990 season.
He initially struggled with the demands of professional football and played a great deal of football in reserve grade. This allowed him to gain a place in the Bears' only premiership side by being eligible to play in the 1991 reserve grade Grand Final.
In 2001 he was awarded his highest individual honour, the Norm Smith Medal, as best on ground in the Lions' first premiership win. He also went on to play important roles in the Lions successful campaigns in 2002 and 2003.
In the 2004 Preliminary Final, with the Lions poised to enter a playoff for a record-equalling fourth consecutive premiership, Hart was unlucky enough to find himself in the path of teammate Daniel Bradshaw on a lead. Bradshaw was unable to avoid a collision and Hart emerged with massive facial injuries. He was immediately taken to hospital, where shocked medical staff commented that his injuries were consistent with being in a car crash at speed without wearing a seat belt. As a consequence of consistent head injuries, for much of his career, he wore a soft helmet.
Unable to take his place in the Lions side for the 2004 Grand Final, he was forced to watch from his hospital bed as his team failed to maintain a half-time lead over Port Adelaide due to injuries to key forwards Jonathan Brown and Alastair Lynch. He announced his retirement from football not long afterwards.
Post playing career
Not long after retiring, Hart supported the newly formed, Christian-aligned Family First Party in 2004 Federal election to the Australian House of Representatives. In 2007 he stood as a Family First candidate in Queensland for the Senate at the 2007 Australian federal election, although he was unsuccessful.
In 2008, Hart was appointed the senior coach of the Broadbeach football club in Queensland.
Hart held a number of coaching and development roles at the Gold Coast Football Club from 2009 until January 2014 and then joined Port Adelaide as Director of Coaching in January 2014.