{"id":15020,"date":"2017-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-crows-aflw-team-has-recruited-another-olympian\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T00:00:00","slug":"the-crows-aflw-team-has-recruited-another-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/the-crows-aflw-team-has-recruited-another-olympian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crows AFLW team has recruited another Olympian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Olympic beach volleyballer Bacchara Palmer has signed with the Adelaide Crows to play in the 2018 AFLW season.<\/h3>\n<p>Palmer was at the 2012 London games and was named Aussie beach volleyball champ six times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up I was always playing or watching sport,\u201d she told afc.com.au on Friday, \u201cincluding attending Crows games at Football Park with dad &#8212; so to be able to join the club and have a go at playing football professionally is really such an honour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watched the first season of the AFLW with great interest. While it\u2019s going to take a lot of hard work to successfully transition from volleyball to football, I think my base fitness and the experience I have in preparing for sporting campaigns will go a long way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crows footy GM Phil Harper said the club was thrilled to sign Palmer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBecchara is an explosive athlete who has years of experience competing at the highest level, so she is sure to be a great asset to our team both on and off the field,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo represent Australia at an Olympics requires a huge amount of mental and physical toughness so we know that Becchara will help to continue to drive elite standards at the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bacchara becomes the second Olympian at the Crows, alongside Erin Phillips.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/port-adelaide-star-is-the-best-in-the-afl\"><strong>PORT ADELAIDE STAR IS THE BEST IN THE AFL, SAY JONATHAN BROWN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/jon-blake\/things-hit-the-fan-when-jeremy-drops-in-on-david-and-will\"><strong>THINGS HIT THE FAN WHEN JEREMY DROPS IN ON DAVID AND WILL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic beach volleyballer Bacchara Palmer has signed with the Adelaide Crows to play in the 2018 AFLW season. Palmer was at the 2012 London games and was named Aussie beach volleyball champ six times. \u201cGrowing up I was always playing or watching sport,\u201d she told afc.com.au on Friday, \u201cincluding attending Crows games at Football Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-15020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Crows AFLW team has recruited another Olympian - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/the-crows-aflw-team-has-recruited-another-olympian\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Crows AFLW team has recruited another Olympian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Olympic beach volleyballer Bacchara Palmer has signed with the Adelaide Crows to play in the 2018 AFLW season. 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