Zimmorlei Farquharson ( ; born 27 April 2002) 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 who plays for

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in the

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(AFLW). Farquharson was born and raised in

Dalby, Queensland Dalby () is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Dalby had a population of 12,719 people. It is on the Darling Downs and is the administrative centre for the Western Downs Regi ...

to a mother from

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

and an Australian father. She attended

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throughout her upbringing. She played for Yeronga South Brisbane in the

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before being drafted by with the 8th pick in the 2020 AFL Women's draft. After spending the 2021 season on the Lions' list without making her debut, she played her first AFLW game in round 3 of the 2022 season in the Lions' win against at

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. For her debut, she received a nomination for the 2022 AFL Women's Rising Star.

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* * 2002 births Living people Australian people of Papua New Guinean descent Sportswomen from Queensland Australian rules footballers from Queensland Brisbane Lions (AFLW) players 21st-century Australian women People from Dalby, Queensland {{AFL-bio-2000s-stub