Everist's meteoric football rise continued on Wednesday night when she was selected by Hawthorn with pick No.25 in the AFLW Draft.

So instead of spending the rest of the week relaxing up north at Palm Cove, former gun soccer player Everist boarded a plane and returned to Victoria on Thursday to get ready for her Hawthorn introduction.

"I've got to be at Hawthorn on Friday for some testing and then on Saturday morning it's the first training session," Everist said.

Remarkably, Everist finds herself on an AFLW list having only played her first game of football in January this year with the Bendigo Pioneers.

Before her foray into football Everist's sporting passion had been soccer. She was a member Football Federation Victoria's National Training Centre and had also trained with the Emerging Matlidas squad.

But craving a new challenge, Everist - who played a combination of full-back and wing on the soccer pitch - switched her focus to football and has thrived in both the Pioneers and Essendon VFLW program.

"I fell a bit out of love with soccer and I've always been drawn to footy and my family has been very involved in footy," Everist said.

"I really wanted to give it a go, so that's what I did."

After impressing coach Danny O'Bree during a casual kick-to-kick at Strathfieldsaye Everist was invited to Bendigo Pioneers' pre-season training, made the girls under-19 squad and was quick to make an impression in her new sporting pursuit.

"My first game was against the Murray Bushrangers... I was running around not really knowing what I was doing, but all credit to the girls and coaches who have really helped me learn the game," Everist said.

"It's crazy to think where it has led to. If you had have told me a year ago this would have happened, I would have said no way.

"I definitely wasn't expecting to get an (AFLW) opportunity this year."

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Everist, 17 and in Year 12 at Girton Grammar, played eight NAB League games with the Pioneers this year primarily as a defender, but also had stints on a wing and up forward.

She also played for Victoria Country at the Under-18 National Championships and in two VFLW games with power side Essendon, as well as ranking fourth nationally in the AFLW Combine 2km trial.

Hawthorn is one of the four expansion teams into season seven of the AFLW, which begins in late-August and for the first time will have a full quota of 18 clubs represented.

Also among Wednesday night's AFLW draftees was Carisbrook's Paige Scott, whose football journey included playing with Eaglehawk's under-18 girls team in the Bendigo Junior Football League last year.

Scott - who was drafted by Essendon with Pick No.8 - was last year's Bendigo Junior Football League joint under-18 girls best and fairest winner. She returned to Eaglehawk a fortnight ago to play for the Hawks' CVFLW team against Strathfieldsaye and kicked five goals.

1-Sydney Swans Montana Ham

2-Hawthorn Jasmine Fleming

3-Port Adelaide Hannah Ewings

4-Essendon Amber Clarke

5-Sydney Swans Sofia Hurley

6-Hawthorn Mackenzie Eardley

7-Port Adelaide Sarah Goodwin

8-Essendon Paige Scott

9-Hawthorn Charlotte Baskaran

10-Hawthorn Bridie Hipwell

11-Sydney Swans Cynthia Hamilton

12-Sydney Swans Montana Beruldsen

13-Sydney Swans Alice Mitchell

14-West Coast Eagles Ella Roberts

15-West Coast Eagles Lauren Wakfer

16-St Kilda J'Noemi Anderson

17-Carlton Keeley Skeeper

18-Carlton Mia Austin

19-Gold Coast SUNS Alana Gee

20-GWS Giants Zarlie Goldsworthy

21-Western Bulldogs Rylie Wilcox

22-Hawthorn Lucy Wales

23-Port Adelaide Sachi Syme

24-West Coast Eagles Abbygail Bushby

25-Hawthorn Emily Everist

26-Hawthorn Laura Elliott

27-Fremantle Madeleine Scanlon

28-North Melbourne Taylah Gatt

29-Western Bulldogs Keely Coyne

30-Collingwood Charlotte Taylor

31-Port Adelaide Ella Boag

32-Essendon Stephanie Wales

33-Geelong Cats Mia Skinner

34-Gold Coast SUNS Claire Ransom

35-Essendon Mia Busch

36-West Coast Eagles Zoe Wakfer

37-Western Bulldogs Heidi Woodley

38-Richmond Charley Ryan

39-North Melbourne Sophia McCarthy

40-Adelaide Keeley Kustermann

41-Brisbane Ella Smith

42-Geelong Cats Brooke Plummer

43-West Coast Eagles Emily Elkington

44-Melbourne Maeve Chaplin

45-Port Adelaide Yasmin Duursma

46-Essendon Mia Van Dyke

47-West Coast Eagles Jaide Britton

48-Carlton Lily Goss

49-Melbourne Samantha Johnson

50-North Melbourne Charli Granville

51-North Melbourne Grace Matser

52-Gold Coast SUNS Jasmyn Smith

53-West Coast Eagles Mikayla Western

54-North Melbourne Cassidy Mailer

55-Geelong Cats Abbey McDonald

56-Collingwood Charlotte Blair

57-Brisbane Lions Dee Heslop

58-Richmond Eilish Sheerin

59-Fremantle Tara Stribley

60-Richmond Katelyn Cox

61-Port Adelaide Amelie Borg

62-Essendon Amelia Radford

63-St Kilda Hannah Stuart

64-GWS Giants Fleur Davies

65-Gold Coast SUNS Pass

66-GWS Giants Meghan Gaffney

67-Carlton Jessica Jones

68-Western Bulldogs Brooke Vernon

69-Adelaide Kiera Mueller

70-Brisbane Lions Charlotte Mullins

71-Adelaide McKenzie Dowrick

72-Melbourne Georgia Gall

73-Essendon Ashleigh Van Loon

74-St Kilda Deanna Jolliffe

75-GWS Giants Madison Brazendale

76-Collingwood Pass

77-Fremantle Megan Kauffman

78-Brisbane Lions Kiara Hillier

79-Melbourne Pass

80-Port Adelaide Lily Johnson

81-St Kilda Caitlin Matthews

82-GWS Giants Jodie Hicks

83-Fremantle Amy Mullholand

84-GWS Giants Cambridge McCormick

85-Fremantle Tahlia Read

86-GWS Giants Tess Cattle

87-GWS Giants Pass

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