Abbey Holmes

At 33 years old, Abbey Holmes has this physical status:

Early life and netball career

Holmes was born in Victor Harbor, South Australia. Her father was the president of Victor Harbor Football Club, and her mother was heavily involved in the local netball team. She played netball in Victor Harbor and continued when her family and family moved to Adelaide when she was ten years old.

Holmes made her debut in South Australia's state netball competition at the age of 15, and in the same year she represented South Australia at the Australian National Netball Championships, she made her debut in the Australian National Netball Championships. She was representing Australia in an international schoolgirls tournament by the age of 16. She continued playing netball at a high level and wanted to represent South Australia in a national under-19 championship, but she suffered her knee two weeks before the tournament and was unable to participate.

Football career

Holmes and her partner, Nathan Brown, travelled to Darwin, Australia, in 2012, so Brown, who had previously played in the South Australian National Football League for West Adelaide and North Adelaide, could participate in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL), during the summer (most Australian rules leagues are played in winter). Holmes had intended to continue playing netball in Darwin, but she soon began playing football for Waratah Football Club in the NTFL's women's competition. She played football in the summer and netball in the winter as the seasons did not overlap. Holmes had a lot of success in the NTFL right away. She was both the league's best goalkicker and a premiership player with Waratah in her first four seasons, becoming one of the top female footballers in the Northern Territory.

Holmes, the first woman to kick 100 goals in a season in a national women's football league, scored 105 goals in 15 games in the 2013-2014 NTFL season. In a match against Tracy Village, she kicked seven or more goals in a single match and kicked ten or more thrice, with one of them kicks. She was identified by name in Federal Parliament as a result of her achievement.

Holmes' popularity in the Northern Territory led to her selection to appear in various exhibition tournaments. She appeared in two E. J. Whitten Legends Games as she continued her West End Slowdown, exchanging player-of-the-match awards with Adelaide legend Andrew McLeod. Despite this, she was consistently overlooked by the Melbourne Football Club and the Western Bulldogs, who participated in annual exhibition matches. Michelle Cowan, then-Melbourne coach, asked her what she needed to do to improve her game after missing out on the 2014 match, but she was told that her game was too one-dimensional. Rather than being a full-forward, she wanted to be able to support her team more. So she got to work on it.

Holmes won her fourth straight premiership during her fourth appearance in a row. Because of the severity of the illness, there was no recovery beyond resting and waiting for it to recover. In 2016, she appeared in two exhibition matches for the Northern Territory, but in both matches she re-tore the cartilage. In the 2016 season, she was supposed to play for the St Kilda Sharks in the Victorian Women's Football League, but she was unable to do anything beyond training. Holmes, on the other hand, started working for the Seven Network as the boundary rider for their coverage of the Victorian Football League. Adelaide player Eddie Betts received the Goal of the Year award at the end of the year.

Holmes was drafted by the Adelaide Football Club as their 13th pick and 103rd overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft, the team she had been supporting for the entirety of her life. She had been expected to be one of Adelaide's top performers going into the inaugural 2017 AFL Women's season, but she wasn't chosen to play until the first match of the season, only as an emergency replacement. She was a late addition to the squad and made her debut in the thirty-point victory over Greater Western Sydney at Thebarton Oval.

Holmes appeared in every match of the season and finished with eight matches, leading the team in handballs. In round four against Fremantle, her best result came as she collected 15 possessions, three tackles, and kicked a goal. She was a member of Adelaide's premiership team when the club defeated Brisbane by six points at Metricon Stadium in the AFL Women's Grand Final at Metricon Stadium.

During the trade period in May 2017, Adelaide re-signed Holmes for the 2018 season. At the end of the 2018 season, she was delisted by Adelaide.

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