Nicola Barr (born 13 June 1996) is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er playing for the

Greater Western Sydney Giants The Greater Western Sydney Giants (officially the Greater Western Sydney Football Club and colloquially known as the GWS Giants or simply GWS) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Sydney Olympic Park, which represents the ...

in the

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competition.

Early life

Barr was born in Melbourne but spent most of her early years living outside of Australia. Barr's family settled in Sydney when she was 14. She began playing football while in year ten at

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on Sydney's North Shore. She was selected to play in the AFL youth girls national competition in 2014. Barr played soccer at an elite level as a junior.

Amateur career

Barr plays state-league football with North Shore in the

Sydney Women's AFL The Sydney Women's Australian Football League (SWAFL) was the governing body of the sport of Women's Australian rules football in the state of New South Wales from 2000 to 2011. In 2012 SWAFL ceased to exist and the women's competition came und ...

(SWAFL). In 2016, Barr won the league's Rising Star award as the best young player in the league. The following season she won the Mostyn Medal as the

best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...

player in the SWAFL. Barr represented the Sydney Swans academy in an AFL exhibition match in April 2016, winning

best on ground In team sport, a player of the match or man of the match or woman of the match award is often given to the most outstanding player in a particular match. This can be a player from either team, although the player is generally chosen from the winn ...

honours.

AFL Women's career

Barr was drafted by with the first overall selection in the

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. She played in all seven games, and was nominated for the AFL Women's Rising Star award after moving from midfield to half back late in the season. Greater Western Sydney signed Barr for the 2018 season during the trade period in May 2017. Barr became the first player in AFL Women's history to be sent directly to the

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owing to an incident involving 's

Ashleigh Riddell Ashleigh Riddell (born 7 March 1996) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. Riddell is a dual AFL Women's All-Australian and won the North Melbourne best and fa ...

during the round two, 2019 match between Greater Western Sydney and North Melbourne played at

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. She was suspended for one match.

Statistics

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Personal life

Barr studies medical science at the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barr, Nicola Living people 1996 births Greater Western Sydney Giants (AFLW) players Sportswomen from New South Wales Australian rules footballers from Sydney People educated at Queenwood School for Girls