Page 79 - AFL Queensland 2015 Year in Review

HIGHLIGHTS
G 231 boys across South East Queensland aged 12 to 19 involved in 2015
G Three Under 18 All- Australians (Ben Keays, Eric Hipwood, Jacob Allison)
G Ben Keays: Queensland Under 18 MVP and Division 2 Best Player
G Connor Ballenden : Queensland Under 16 MVP
G Queensland Under 18 and Under 16 teams both won Division Two AFL Championships
G Two Hyundai Help For Kids Lions Academy graduates, Harris Andrews and Liam Dawson, made their debuts for the Brisbane Lions in season 2015
G Five Under 18 boys invited to AFL National Dra Combine, and a fu her three boys invited to the AFL State/ NEAFL Combine
G Four boys in the 2015-16 AFL National Academy (Level
1: Jack Clayton and Connor Ballenden, Level 2: Jacob Allison, Jack Rolls)
G Tom Ma hews (from Dalby Under 15) was selected
as an emergency player for the Australian Under 15 Schoolboys AFL Squad
G Under 18 Development Coach Daniel Webster won the AFLQ Talent Assistant Coach of the Year award
G Four players dra ed in the AFL National Dra ; and for the first time, two players to other clubs; Cory Wagner to No h Melbourne and Wylie Buzza to Geelong
G Two players selected in
the AFL Rookie Dra , with Rueben William becoming the first Sudanese player at the Lions and Mabior Chol the first Sudanese player at Richmond
LUKE CURRAN ACADEMY MANAGER BRISBANE LIONS
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