{"id":294734,"date":"2025-11-19T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294734\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:37:10","slug":"hawks-select-schubert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294734\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks select Schubert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawthorn has welcomed athletic tall forward Aidan Schubert with Pick 23 in the 2025 Telstra AFL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old (turning 18 next month) presents well as a target in attack with his clean hands overhead, aerobic capacity and versatility a feature of his game, highlighted by strong stints in the ruck throughout his junior career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schubert had an outstanding season at club level, kicking 28 goals in 13 matches for Central District to win the SANFL U18 MVP Award.<\/p>\n<p>He was also one of the stars in South Australia\u2019s title-winning team at the National Championships, finishing fourth in the Larke Medal voting and earning All-Australian honours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exciting goalkicker averaged 17 disposals and seven marks across the carnival, booting four goals against the Allies and three in the big win over Victoria Metro.<\/p>\n<p>He made his SANFL senior debut late in the year and then showed his elite competitive edge and endurance at the national Draft Combine, recording 6:21 for the 2km time trial, which was ranked eighth overall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>State: South Australia <br \/>State League Club: Central District <br \/>Community Club: Gawler Central <br \/>Date of Birth: 21\/12\/2007 <br \/>Height: 196cm<br \/>Position: Forward\/ ruck\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn has welcomed athletic tall forward Aidan Schubert with Pick 23 in the 2025 Telstra AFL Draft.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-294734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294734","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=294734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}