attended by 70 top draft prospects <\/a>found the Bundoora-based Parade College was the most represented school in the country. <\/p>\nSam Gayfer, Toby Krasna, Harvie Cooke, Lewis Houndsome and Kai Parker have all attended the school and were all invited to the AFL national draft combine as likely selections. <\/p>\n
Previous Parade College graduates to have made their names in the AFL include Trent Cotchin, Ben Johnson, Paul Licuria, Blake Caracella, Daniel Harford, Jade Gresham and Nate Caddy. <\/p>\n
But Parade College isn\u2019t the only school with at least a few players firmly in draft calculations. <\/p>\n
Adelaide\u2019s Prince Alfred College has four players in the mix \u2013 Mitchell Harris, Jack Slattery, Anthony Long and Sam Tassone. <\/p>\n
Melbourne\u2019s Brighton Grammar had three players \u2013 including top-five prospect and school captain Arki Butler. <\/p>\n
Butler kicked 8.7 from 33 disposals in one school football game mid-year. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s probably the best game we played,\u201d Butler said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a pretty good team this year and we had some good midfielders. I played a little bit more forward that day and was able to get on the end of a couple after some good delivery from the boys. If I could have kicked straight, it might have been a little bit better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Top-30 draft prospects Wil Malady and Marlon Neocleous have both been boarders at Caulfield Grammar, where former Geelong star Jimmy Bartel serves as head of football. <\/p>\n
\u201cHaving Jimmy has been awesome,\u201d said Neocleous, who hails from Traralgon. <\/p>\n
\u201cI catch up with him every now and then, once a week really. There are even times where the gym\u2019s not open and he just sat in the gym and let me do my work. Just having him there, he\u2019s always there to have a chat. If it\u2019s footy, if it\u2019s not, if it\u2019s school, he\u2019s just always there, which has been awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carlton father-son prospect Cody Walker finished school at St Joseph\u2019s College in Echuca last year, where he used to bump into 2023 No. 1 draft pick Harley Reid in the corridors. <\/p>\n
Fellow top-five prospect Ethan Drever is set to join a long list of graduates from Ballarat\u2019s St Patrick\u2019s College who have made their way to the AFL. <\/p>\n
The school has helped produce more than 120 AFL players, including two of the past four No. 1 picks in Aaron Cadman (2022) and Sam Lalor (2024).<\/p>\n
\u201cSt. Pat\u2019s has been awesome for me,\u201d Drever said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of strong relationships at St. Pats, with the teachers as well. So it\u2019s been a good journey through. There\u2019s been a lot of good footy players come from St. Pat\u2019s. It\u2019s got a pretty rich history of AFL players, so hopefully I can add to that list.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne\u2019s Parade College looks set to have as many as five players drafted to the AFL this 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