Shaun Hart

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Shaun Hart
Personal information
Full name	Shaun Hart
Date of birth	(1971-05-17) 17 May 1971
Place of birth	Ferntree Gully, Victoria
Original team	Shepparton United Football Club (Goulburn Valley Football League)
Draft	33, 1989 Brisbane Bears
Height/Weight	175cm / 75kg
Position(s)	Midfielder
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1989 – 1996 1997 – 2004	Brisbane Bears Brisbane Lions	102 (81) 171 (96)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of Preliminary final, 2004 season.
Career highlights
Brisbane Bears reserves premiership 1991 Brisbane Lions premiership side 2001, 2002, 2003 Brisbane Lions Grand Final side 2004 Norm Smith Medal 2001

Shaun Hart (born 17 May 1971) is the Director of Coaching at Australian Football League (AFL) club, Port Adelaide.^[1] He is a former player who played his entire professional career at the Brisbane Lions where he was a premiership winning utility player. He has also had assistant coaching and development roles at the Gold Coast Football Club.^[1]

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 AFL 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,^[2] although he was unsuccessful.

In 2008, Hart was appointed the senior coach of the Broadbeach football club in Queensland.^[3]

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.^[4]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Jackson, Ed (10 January 2014). "Suns lose Hart to Power". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
↑ "Lions star runs for Family First". The Australian. 2007-11-02. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
↑ "Shaun Hart". Fox Sport Pulse. Fox Sport Pulse. 27 November 2008. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
↑ Morgan, Kym (10 January 2014). "Brisbane champion Shaun Hart replaces Alan Richardson as coaching director at Port Adelaide". Herald Sun. News Ltd. Retrieved 10 January 2014.

External links

v t e Brisbane Lions 2001/2002/2003 AFL Premiers

2001: Brisbane Lions 15.18 (108) defeated Essendon 12.10 (82), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 2002: Brisbane Lions 10.15 (75) defeated Collingwood 9.12 (66), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 2003: Brisbane Lions 20.14 (134) defeated Collingwood 12.12 (84), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 3. Voss 2. Johnson 4. McRae 6. Power 10. Ashcroft 11. Lynch 12. Akermanis 13. Pike 15. Michael 16. Brown 20. Black 23. Leppitsch 27. Keating 32. Hart 33. White 44. Lappin

Coach: Matthews

v t e Norm Smith Medal winners

1979: Harmes 1980: Bartlett 1981: Doull 1982: Rioli 1983: Robertson 1984: Duckworth 1985: Madden 1986: Ayres 1987: Rhys-Jones 1988: Ayres 1989: Ablett 1990: Shaw 1991: Dear 1992: Matera 1993: Long 1994: Kemp 1995: Williams 1996: Archer 1997: McLeod 1998: McLeod 1999: Grant 2000: Hird 2001: Hart 2002: Buckley 2003: Black 2004: Pickett 2005: Judd 2006: Embley 2007: Johnson 2008: Hodge 2009: Chapman 2010 draw: Hayes 2010 replay: Pendlebury 2011: Bartel 2012: O'Keefe 2013: Lake

italics denotes the player won the Norm Smith Medal in a losing side

1989 VFL National Draft

1. Anthony Banik
2. Matthew Croft
3. Jody Arnol
4. Peter Matera
5. Brad Rowe
6. Mark Brayshaw
7. Stephen Edgar
8. Brad Tunbridge
9. Dale Kickett
10. Daryl Groves
11. Darren Smith
12. Gavin Wanganeen
13. Allister Scott
14. Ben Allan
15. Nathan Bower
16. Jason Shields
17. Gilbert McAdam
18. Robert Wren
19. Ashley Green
20. Brett Hawkey
21. Peter Doyle
22. Mathew Hanrahan
23. Roger Delaney
24. Mathew Styles
25. Paul Rouvray
26. Alister Carr
27. Joel Saunders
28. Jason Gibson
29. Wayne Campbell
30. Glenn Coleman
31. Darel Hart
32. Shaun Slater
33. Shaun Hart
34. Andrew Venner
35. Chris Bond
36. Rohan Smith
37. Shayne Stevenson
38. Gavin Rose
39. Peter Cransberg
40. Travis St Clair
41. Chris Waterworth
42. Matthew Robran
43. Chris Guerts
44. Jonathan Solomon
45. Sasha Dyson-Holland
46. Shane Radbone
47. Richard Gerke
48. Dennis Rapacholi
49. Greg Jones
50. Dean Irving
51. Joe Wilson
52. Rod Jameson
53. Derek Coghlan
54. Steven Bozicevic
55. Grant Coffee
56. Shayne Bennett
57. Tim Moreland
58. Jason Dullard
59. Daniel Frawley
60. Chris Sharp
61. Simon Eastaugh
62. John Brunner
63. Wayne Thornborrow
64. Tony Evans
65. Alan Schwartz
66. Shannon Bergmann
67. Ben Judd
68. Scott Tomlinson
69. Jamie Elliott
70. Paul Williams
71. Glenn Wilkins
72. Glenn Crawford
73. Tim Birthisel
74. Alistair Burke
75. Stephen Pearce
76. Shayne Ward
77. Christian Lister
78. Stephen Schwerdt
79. David Brown
80. Damien Murray
81. Sam Gross
82. Troy Lehmann
83. Mark Robinson
84. Matthew Kelly
85. Anthony Tohill
86. Gerrard Harrington
87. Ashley Coutts
88. Tim Leng
89. Jason Smith
90. Ben Cross
91. Grant Lawrie
92. Brett Heady
93. Tony Paynter
94. John Bingham
95. Jeremy Smith
96. Gary Stevens
97. Paul McConville
98. Kym Russell
99. Nick Tsiotanis
100. David Pittman
101. Richard Harrison
102. Dion Sheehan
103. Brett Chalmers
104. Tony Trigg
105. Stuart Annand
106. Ernie Hug
107. Sean Valenta
108. Eric Lissenden
109. Colin Corkery
110. Craig Budarick
111. David Noble
112. Ashley McIntosh
113. Shane Crothers
114. Jason Walscgott
115. Colum McManamon
116. Brendan Bicknall

Preceded by James Hird	Norm Smith Medallists 2001	Succeeded by Nathan Buckley

Persondata
Name	Hart, Shaun
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	17 May 1971
Place of birth	Ferntree Gully, Victoria
Date of death
Place of death

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