Shaw comes with a distinguished background as both a player and coach and will provide great experience for the young Hawks list who showed plenty of promise in the second half of the 2012 season.
The former Collingwood ruckman played 47 games at VFL level before a successful career at Greensborough where he won consecutive best and fairest awards in 1991 and 1992.
He later coached Reservoir, Greensborough and Macleod before spending the past two seasons at Essendon District Football League side Northern Saints.
A meet the coach day is being organised and will be advised shortly.
