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{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1971}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2014}}

{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Shaun Hart
| image = 
| fullname = Shaun Hart
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|5|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Ferntree Gully, Victoria]]
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| originalteam = [[Shepparton United Football Club]]<br />([[Goulburn Valley Football Netball League]])
| draftpick = 33, [[1989 VFL draft|1989]]<br />{{AFL BB}}
| height = 175&nbsp;cm
| weight = 75&nbsp;kg
| position = Midfielder
| statsend = 2004
| years1 = 1990 &ndash; 1996
| club1 = {{AFL BB}}
| games_goals1 = 102 (81)
| years2 = 1997 &ndash; 2004
| club2 = {{AFL BL}}
| games_goals2 = 171 (96)
| games_goalstotal = 273 (177)
| careerhighlights = *3× [[AFL Premiership]] player: ([[2001 AFL Grand Final|2001]], [[2002 AFL Grand Final|2002]], [[2003 AFL Grand Final|2003]])
*[[Norm Smith Medal]]: ([[2001 AFL Grand Final|2001]]) 
*[[Brisbane Bears]] reserves premiership: (1991)
}}
'''Shaun Hart''' (born 17 May 1971) is a former [[Australian rules football]] player, who played for the [[Brisbane Bears]] and [[Brisbane Lions]] in the [[Australian 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.<ref name="PA">{{cite web|url = http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-sport/suns-lose-hart-to-power-20140110-30ll2.html|title = Suns lose Hart to Power|date = 10 January 2014|website = The Age|publisher = Fairfax Media|last1 = Jackson|first1 = Ed|access-date = 10 January 2014}}</ref>

== Early life ==
He was born in [[Ferntree Gully, Victoria]] and moved to country Victoria where he played for the [[Shepparton United Football Club]].

Hart was recruited to the [[Brisbane Bears]] from Shepparton in the 1989 national VFL draft.

== AFL career ==
{{MOS|date=January 2014}}
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 over [[Port Adelaide Football Club|Port Adelaide]] due to injuries to key forwards [[Jonathan Brown (Australian footballer)|Jonathan Brown]] and [[Alastair Lynch]].  He announced his retirement from football not long afterwards.

==Statistics==
:<ref>[http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/S/Shaun_Hart.html Shaun Hart's player profile at AFL Tables]</ref>

{{Australian rules football statistics legend|p=y}}
{{AFL player statistics start with votes}}
|-
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1990 AFL season|1990]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BB}}
| 32 || 11 || 2 || 6 || 52 || 43 || 95 || 14 || 14 || 0.2 || 0.5 || 4.7 || 3.9 || 8.6 || 1.3 || 1.3 || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1991 AFL season|1991]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BB}}
| 32 || 6 || 1 || 1 || 51 || 32 || 83 || 13 || 13 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 8.5 || 5.3 || 13.8 || 2.2 || 2.2 || 0
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1992 AFL season|1992]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BB}}
| 32 || 12 || 1 || 5 || 156 || 90 || 246 || 51 || 24 || 0.1 || 0.4 || 13.0 || 7.5 || 20.5 || 4.3 || 2.0 || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1993 AFL season|1993]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BB}}
| 32 || 19 || 9 || 4 || 205 || 88 || 293 || 56 || 46 || 0.5 || 0.2 || 10.8 || 4.6 || 15.4 || 2.9 || 2.4 || 0
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1994 AFL season|1994]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BB}}
| 32 || 11 || 11 || 2 || 86 || 41 || 127 || 22 || 15 || 1.0 || 0.2 || 7.8 || 3.7 || 11.5 || 2.0 || 1.4 || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1995 AFL season|1995]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BB}}
| 32 || 23 || 32 || 21 || 307 || 173 || 480 || 87 || 42 || 1.4 || 0.9 || 13.3 || 7.5 || 20.9 || 3.8 || 1.8 || 1
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1996 AFL season|1996]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BB}}
| 32 || 20 || 25 || 21 || 255 || 115 || 370 || 56 || 59 || 1.3 || 1.1 || 12.8 || 5.8 || 18.5 || 2.8 || 3.0 || 5
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1997 AFL season|1997]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BL}}
| 32 || 19 || 11 || 15 || 250 || 124 || 374 || 75 || 39 || 0.6 || 0.8 || 13.2 || 6.5 || 19.7 || 3.9 || 2.1 || 7
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1998 AFL season|1998]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BL}}
| 32 || 18 || 12 || 14 || 218 || 151 || 369 || 66 || 40 || 0.7 || 0.8 || 12.1 || 8.4 || 20.5 || 3.7 || 2.2 || 5
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1999 AFL season|1999]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BL}}
| 32 || 23 || 18 || 7 || 272 || 121 || 393 || 75 || 35 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 11.8 || 5.3 || 17.1 || 3.3 || 1.5 || 6
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[2000 AFL season|2000]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BL}}
| 32 || 24 || 14 || 15 || 264 || 142 || 406 || 97 || 52 || 0.6 || 0.6 || 11.0 || 5.9 || 16.9 || 4.0 || 2.2 || 3
|-
| scope=row bgcolor=F0E68C | '''[[2001 AFL season|2001]]'''<sup>#</sup> || {{AFL BL}}
| 32 || 19 || 8 || 7 || 195 || 94 || 289 || 62 || 33 || 0.4 || 0.4 || 10.3 || 4.9 || 15.2 || 3.3 || 1.7 || 0
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
| scope=row bgcolor=F0E68C | '''[[2002 AFL season|2002]]'''<sup>#</sup> || {{AFL BL}}
| 32 || 23 || 8 || 3 || 178 || 108 || 286 || 77 || 57 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 7.7 || 4.7 || 12.4 || 3.3 || 2.5 || 0
|-
| scope=row bgcolor=F0E68C | '''[[2003 AFL season|2003]]'''<sup>#</sup> || {{AFL BL}}
| 32 || 25 || 18 || 13 || 290 || 126 || 416 || 104 || 60 || 0.7 || 0.5 || 11.6 || 5.0 || 16.6 || 4.2 || 2.4 || 5
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[2004 AFL season|2004]]
|style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL BL}}
| 32 || 20 || 7 || 6 || 182 || 113 || 295 || 46 || 41 || 0.4 || 0.3 || 9.1 || 5.7 || 14.8 || 2.3 || 2.1 || 0
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3| Career
! 273
! 177
! 140
! 2961
! 1561
! 4522
! 901
! 570
! 0.6
! 0.5
! 10.8
! 5.7
! 16.6
! 3.3
! 2.1
! 32
|}

==Honours and achievements==
'''Team'''
* '''3× [[List of VFL/AFL premiers|AFL premiership player]] ({{AFL BL}})''': [[2001 AFL Grand Final|2001]], [[2002 AFL Grand Final|2002]], [[2003 AFL Grand Final|2003]]
* '''[[List of VFL/AFL premiers#VFL/AFL Seconds/Reserves premierships|AFL Reserves premiership player]] ({{AFL BB}})''': [[List of VFL/AFL premiers#VFL/AFL Seconds/Reserves premierships|1991]]

'''Individual'''
* '''[[Norm Smith Medal]]''': [[2001 AFL Grand Final|2001]]
* '''[[Interstate matches in Australian rules football|State of Origin]] ([[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]])''': 1998
* '''[[List of Brisbane Lions individual awards and records#Team of the Decade|Brisbane Lions Team of the Decade 1997–2006 – Rover]]'''
* '''Inaugural Brisbane Lions AFL team – Wing'''

== Post playing career ==
Not long after retiring, Hart supported the newly formed, Christian-aligned [[Family First Party]] in [[2004 Australian federal election|2004 Federal election]] to the [[Australian House of Representatives]]. In 2007 he stood as a Family First candidate in Queensland for the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] at the [[2007 Australian federal election]],<ref name="Senate">{{cite news  | title = Lions star runs for Family First | url = http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22690768-5006786,00.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121215193139/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22690768-5006786,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 15 December 2012 | publisher = [[The Australian]] | date =2007-11-02  | access-date = 2007-11-12 }}</ref> although he was unsuccessful.

In 2008, Hart was appointed the senior coach of the [[Broadbeach, Queensland|Broadbeach]] football club in Queensland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foxsportspulse.com/club_info.cgi?client=1-109-34762-0-0&sID=58665&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=5056069&sectionID=58665 |title=Shaun Hart |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=27 November 2008 |website=Fox Sport Pulse |access-date=10 January 2014}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/brisbane-champion-shaun-hart-replaces-alan-richardson-as-coaching-director-at-port-adelaide/story-fni5f9de-1226798870767 |title=Brisbane champion Shaun Hart replaces Alan Richardson as coaching director at Port Adelaide |last1=Morgan |first1=Kym |date=10 January 2014 |website=Herald Sun |publisher=News Ltd |access-date=10 January 2014}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040623002609/http://lions.com.au/default.asp?pg=players&spg=playerprofile&personid=13112 Brisbane Lions Shaun Hart information page]
* [http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2004/09/30/1096527863572.html?from=storyrhs "Christian speaks out as he takes leave of Lions" ''Melbourne Age'' 1 October 2004, retrieved 15 December 2005]
* [https://archive.today/20050719184922/http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/culture/thinking/957b/ "Surviving in the Lions Den" Sydney Anglicans 25/7/2003 retrieved 15 December 2005]

{{2001/02/03 Brisbane Lions triple premiership players}}
{{Brisbane Lions Team of the Decade}}
{{Inaugural Brisbane Lions team}}
{{Norm Smith Medal}}
{{1998 Victoria State of Origin players}}
{{1989 VFL national draft}}

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