Hollie Florance (
née
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Grima, born 16 December 1983 in
Launceston, Tasmania
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) is an
Australian
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women's
basketball
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player. She is 190 cm tall, weighs 84
kg and plays in the
Centre
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position. She attended the
Australian Institute of Sport
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in 2000 to 2002. She was named the
WNBL MVP
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...
during the 2006–07 season playing for the
Bulleen Boomers
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. During the 2007/08 season she played offshore in the Italian Serie A League suiting up for Italmoka Pozzuoli. She has represented her
country
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on numerous occasions, debuting at the 2002 World Championships in China where the Australian team won bronze. She has also won a silver medal at the
2008 Olympics
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after missing out on selection during the
2004 Olympics
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. She was also part of the Australian team that won the gold medal at the
world championships
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in 2006 and the
2006 Commonwealth Games
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in
Melbourne
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. Hollie is of
Maltese
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heritage.
Personal life
In mid-2011, Grima was diagnosed with
adenocarcinoma
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in situ, an early form of
cervical cancer
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. As a result, she retired from international basketball, and announced that it is unlikely that she would be involved in the
2012 London Olympics
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.
She is the sister of
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s
Nathan
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, Todd and Alex Grima.
See also
*
Australia women's national basketball team
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*
WNBL Most Valuable Player Award
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, (season 2006/07)
*
WNBL Top Shooter Award
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, (season 2006/07)
*
WNBL All-Star Five
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, (season 2006/07)
References
Beijing 2008 Athlete Profile
External links
*
1983 births
Living people
Australian women's basketball players
Australian people of Maltese descent
Centers (basketball)
Olympic basketball players for Australia
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Olympic medalists in basketball
Melbourne Boomers players
Australian Institute of Sport basketball (WNBL) players
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Launceston, Tasmania
Sportswomen from Tasmania
Commonwealth Games gold medallists in basketball
21st-century Australian sportswomen
Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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