| Shaun Hart | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Shaun Hart | ||
| Born | (1971-05-17)17 May 1971 (age 54) Ferntree Gully, Victoria | ||
| Original teams | Shepparton United Football Club (Goulburn Valley Football Netball League) | ||
| Draft | 33,1989 Brisbane Bears | ||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1990 – 1996 | Brisbane Bears | 102 (81) | |
| 1997 – 2004 | Brisbane Lions | 171 (96) | |
| Total | 273 (177) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2004. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com | |||
Shaun Hart (born 17 May 1971) is a formerAustralian rules football player, who played for theBrisbane Bears andBrisbane Lions in theAustralian Football League. Hart played in Brisbane's Lions hat trick of premierships from 2001 to 2003 as well as in the Bears reserves premiership in 1991. He is currently the director of coaching at Port Adelaide Power and has also been an assistant coach.[1]
He was born inFerntree Gully, Victoria and moved to country Victoria where he played for theShepparton United Football Club.
Hart was recruited to theBrisbane Bears from Shepparton in the 1989 national VFL draft.
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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 1997 he was a member of the inaugural Brisbane Lions team following the Bears merger with Fitzroy.
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 overPort Adelaide due to injuries to key forwardsJonathan Brown andAlastair Lynch. He announced his retirement from football not long afterwards.
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks | ||
# | Played in that season's premiership team |
| Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
| 1990 | Brisbane Bears | 32 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 52 | 43 | 95 | 14 | 14 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 8.6 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0 |
| 1991 | Brisbane Bears | 32 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 51 | 32 | 83 | 13 | 13 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 8.5 | 5.3 | 13.8 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 0 |
| 1992 | Brisbane Bears | 32 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 156 | 90 | 246 | 51 | 24 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 13.0 | 7.5 | 20.5 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 0 |
| 1993 | Brisbane Bears | 32 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 205 | 88 | 293 | 56 | 46 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 10.8 | 4.6 | 15.4 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 0 |
| 1994 | Brisbane Bears | 32 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 86 | 41 | 127 | 22 | 15 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 7.8 | 3.7 | 11.5 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 0 |
| 1995 | Brisbane Bears | 32 | 23 | 32 | 21 | 307 | 173 | 480 | 87 | 42 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 13.3 | 7.5 | 20.9 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 1 |
| 1996 | Brisbane Bears | 32 | 20 | 25 | 21 | 255 | 115 | 370 | 56 | 59 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 12.8 | 5.8 | 18.5 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 5 |
| 1997 | Brisbane Lions | 32 | 19 | 11 | 15 | 250 | 124 | 374 | 75 | 39 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 13.2 | 6.5 | 19.7 | 3.9 | 2.1 | 7 |
| 1998 | Brisbane Lions | 32 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 218 | 151 | 369 | 66 | 40 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 12.1 | 8.4 | 20.5 | 3.7 | 2.2 | 5 |
| 1999 | Brisbane Lions | 32 | 23 | 18 | 7 | 272 | 121 | 393 | 75 | 35 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 11.8 | 5.3 | 17.1 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 6 |
| 2000 | Brisbane Lions | 32 | 24 | 14 | 15 | 264 | 142 | 406 | 97 | 52 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 11.0 | 5.9 | 16.9 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 3 |
| 2001# | Brisbane Lions | 32 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 195 | 94 | 289 | 62 | 33 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 10.3 | 4.9 | 15.2 | 3.3 | 1.7 | 0 |
| 2002# | Brisbane Lions | 32 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 178 | 108 | 286 | 77 | 57 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 7.7 | 4.7 | 12.4 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 0 |
| 2003# | Brisbane Lions | 32 | 25 | 18 | 13 | 290 | 126 | 416 | 104 | 60 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 11.6 | 5.0 | 16.6 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 5 |
| 2004 | Brisbane Lions | 32 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 182 | 113 | 295 | 46 | 41 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 9.1 | 5.7 | 14.8 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 0 |
| Career | 273 | 177 | 140 | 2961 | 1561 | 4522 | 901 | 570 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 10.8 | 5.7 | 16.6 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 32 | ||
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Not long after retiring, Hart supported the newly formed, Christian-alignedFamily First Party in2004 Federal election to theAustralian House of Representatives. In 2007 he stood as a Family First candidate in Queensland for theSenate at the2007 Australian federal election,[3] although he was unsuccessful.
In 2008, Hart was appointed the senior coach of theBroadbeach football club in Queensland.[4]
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.[5]