{"id":700134,"date":"2026-05-28T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700134\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:02:10","slug":"kyle-to-debut-for-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700134\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle to debut for Swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Breaking\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The 18-year-old grew up playing rugby and basketball before landing at the QBE Sydney Swans Academy in the middle of 2024.\n            <\/p>\n<p>QBE Sydney Swans Academy graduate Harry Kyle will make his AFL debut against Richmond this weekend.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Kyle joined the red and white as the club\u2019s first selection in the 2025 AFL Draft, after matching the GWS Giants bid at pick 14.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The 18-year-old grew up playing rugby and basketball before landing at the QBE Sydney Swans Academy in the middle of 2024.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Kyle has played eight VFL games this season and notched 23 disposals across the half back against Geelong last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>Sydney Swans senior coach Dean Cox said he was pleased to see Kyle earn his opportunity at AFL level.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cHarry has worked hard for this opportunity, and it\u2019s a terrific reward to see him make his debut on Saturday afternoon,\u201d Cox said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cHis development over the last few years has been impressive and we\u2019ve been really pleased with the progress he has made since being drafted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s also testament to how important and valuable QBE Sydney Swans Academy is, as it continues to develop talent capable of playing AFL footy.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0The Sydney Swans will announce their full Round 12 team at 6:20pm AEST on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking The 18-year-old grew up playing rugby and basketball before landing at the QBE Sydney Swans Academy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-700134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700134","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=700134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}