In late October 2019, 27-year-old Hannah Priest was getting a range of her Year 12 classes ready for their South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) exams.She went into her school's principal's office and asked if she could have the following day off as she needed to fly to Melbourne."I said 'I might get drafted or I might not, but if you're okay just to give me a day off to give it a crack?' and he said, 'Absolutely, Hannah, go for it,'" Priest told ABC Sport.Her hopes eventuated when St Kilda chose her with pick No.41."I returned the next day, and all the kids were like, 'Miss Priest, what? You got drafted? What is this? We didn't even know you played football,'" she said."I finished up the year there and then moved over to Melbourne, not knowing if I'd ever play a game for the Saints Her mum, for example, never got the chance to try, which she says would have "given it a real good crack".Had she been younger, she would have had a far less disrupted pathway into high-level football, like many of her peers.Priest was drafted alongside Georgia Patrikios, Nicola Zenos, Olivia Vesely and Molly McDonald, who were all 18 or 19 at the time."I think it was in the first season; I just remember the Saints said, 'You can't really kick, but we think you can learn,'" she said."In those first few years we had several different athletes that had come across from different sports