Amy Boyle-Carr has become the latest Donegal LGFA player to turn her hand to Aussie Rules football.
Adelaide Crows has confirmed they have signed the Glenties woman as a rookie for the 2024 AFLW season.
Glenfin’s Yvonne Bonner also played for ‘The Crows’ until she announced her retirement at the end of the season and that she is to return to Donegal.
Fellow county players Naimh McLaughlin and Tanya Kennedy, however, signed new deals with AFLW sides The Gold Coast Suns and the Sydney Swans.
Boyle-Carr is a three-time Ulster champion with Donegal, winning player of the match in the 2019 Ulster final. She has also represented Ireland in soccer when she was selected to play in a FIFA World Cup Qualifier against the Netherlands in 2018, when she was only 17.
Crows Head of Women’s Football, Phil Harper, said Boyle-Carr would join the team at the completion of her commitments with Donegal next year.
“Amy is a dynamic athlete who is fast and agile, and has skills developed across two football codes that we think will translate well to AFLW,” Harper said.
“We were actually watching some vision of Yvonne Bonner ahead of the AFLW Supplementary Draft earlier this year and Amy kept catching our attention with her dashing runs.
“We love what the Irish players bring to our game, and we’ve had great success with the likes of Yvonne, Niamh Kelly and Ailish Considine and recently Mark Keane in our men’s program as well.
“We wanted to add some more speed and run to our squad and we think Amy has the physical attributes to play as a small forward, defender or even on the wing.
“We look forward to welcoming Amy and the Boyle-Carr family to our Club.”
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