AFL draft: Isaac Quaynor becomes fifth player in four years to come out of YJFL club Beverley Hills
With pick No.13, Collingwood draftee Isaac Quaynor joined the growing list of AFL players to progress from Beverley Hills Junior Football Club to the elite level.
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With pick No.13, Collingwood draftee Isaac Quaynor joined the growing list of AFL players to progress from Beverley Hills Junior Football Club to the elite level.
Quaynor was snapped up by the Magpies in Thursday’s night’s draft after Greater Western Sydney placed a bid on the Next Generation Academy member.
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The 18-year-old joined brothers Tom and Ed Phillips, Christian Petracca and Blake Hardwick as Beverley Hills juniors to find their way to the AFL ranks.
Players to come out of @YarraJFL club @BevHillsJFC in recent years: Tom and Ed Phillips, Christian Petracca, Blake Hardwick and now Isaac Quaynor. And they reckon there’ll be more to come in the next few years.
— Toby Prime (@T_Prime2) November 23, 2018
Even NBA superstar Ben Simmons had a successful stint there as a junior before turning his attention to basketball.
Quaynor was co-captain of Beverley Hills’ colts premiership in 2016 before advancing to TAC Cup club Oakleigh Chargers.
Premiership coach Tony Edwards said Quaynor’s dare and run off half-back was evident in his junior days.
“We noticed it early on that instead of playing him in that pivotal position at centre half-back, I used to play him as a spare down back and just tell him to go for his marks, just run and carry,” Edwards said.
“He did everything he was asked and as his confidence grew, it was incredible just how he’d jump into packs, take the mark, he’d play on and if he didn’t play on he’d push back off the mark really hard and hit up an option.
“He’s a beautiful kick of the ball, never wasted a possession. Just incredible to watch.”
Edwards quickly made contact with Quaynor to congratulate him on realising his dream.
“I just said, ‘well done and I can’t wait to watch you playing on the big screen’,” he said.
“He just sent back to me, ‘thanks, Tony, means a lot’. He’s just fantastic.”
Edwards’ credited the club’s tireless volunteers for establishing it as a breeding ground for future AFL players.
He tipped more players to come through in coming seasons and predicted the club would deliver its first AFLW player in the near future.
“There is a lot coming through and the club is just run extremely well,” he said.
“That work ethic the club has got and just the good camaraderie with all the players and all the coaches is what I put it down to.”
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