{"id":373908,"date":"2025-12-26T23:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373908\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:13:06","slug":"former-hawk-turns-to-american-punting-signs-with-college-team-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373908\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Hawk turns to American punting, signs with College team &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/introducing-myteam-your-club-your-news-your-way-166070\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"327\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"my-team-banner promo-article-banner\" id=\"my-team-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764633130_359_ZH-InArticleMyTeamLink.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Delisted Hawthorn forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/jasper-scaife\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasper Scaife<\/a> is the latest AFL-NFL convert, signing with college outfit Notre Dame as a punter.<\/p>\n<p>Scaife joined the Hawks via the 2024 MSD with Pick 5 as an exciting key forward, but fell behind the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/calsher-dear\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calsher Dear<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/jack-gunston\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Gunston<\/a>, Mitch Lewis and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/mabior-chol\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mabior Chol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The West Perth product played 27 games for Box Hill in the VFL during his time in Victoria, booting 45 goals.<\/p>\n<p>However, on social media, Scaife announced his next move after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> stint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am profoundly grateful and deeply humbled to announce my commitment to the University of Notre Dame as a student-athlete. I am full of excitement for this incredible opportunity,&#8221; an\u00a0Instagram statement read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to everyone who played a role in making this happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Above all, I recognise that none of this is possible without God.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;God. Country. Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go Irish \u2618\ufe0f&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Scaife committed to special teams coordinator Marty Biagi and will have a full four years of eligibility upon arrival in South Bend.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old replaces fellow Australian punter James Rendell, who spent the past two seasons at the Irish.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Delisted Hawthorn forward Jasper Scaife is the latest AFL-NFL convert, signing with college outfit Notre Dame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-373908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373908","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=373908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}