Stacey Barr (born 12 November 1992) is an
Australian rules footballer and
basketball
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player. She has played for the
Fremantle Football Club
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in the
AFL Women's
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competition, and has played in the
Women's National Basketball League
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for the
Perth Lynx
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.
Basketball career
Barr played four seasons of
college basketball
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in the United States between 2011 and 2015 for the
University of Idaho
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. After a stint in the
SEABL with the
Geelong Supercats
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, Barr joined the
Perth Lynx
The Perth Lynx are an Australian professional basketball team based in Perth, Western Australia. The Lynx compete in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) and play their home games at Bendat Basketball Centre. For sponsorship reasons, t ...
for the
2015–16 WNBL season
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. In 2016, she played in the
SBL for the
Kalamunda Eastern Suns. In 2017, she continued on in the SBL with the
Willetton Tigers
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. She split her 2018 season with a stint with the
East Perth Eagles in the SBL before finishing the year with the
Frankston Blues
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in the SEABL. After a season abroad in Luxembourg with Basket Esch, Barr returned to Perth for the 2019 SBL season and helped the
Warwick Senators
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reach the grand final, where they lost 85–56 to the
Rockingham Flames
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despite Barr's team-high 16 points. She was subsequently named the
SBL MVP. She continued to play with the Senators in
2020
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,
2021
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and
2022
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. She won the
NBL1 West MVP in 2022 and helped the Senators win the
NBL1 West championship and
NBL1 National championship at the
NBL1 National Finals. On 2 June 2023, she scored 51 points in an 87–58 win over the
Perth Redbacks
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.
Football career
Barr was drafted by Fremantle with their ninth selection and sixty-eighth overall in the
2016 AFL Women's draft
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Draftees and signings over the period were required to have ...
. She made her debut in the thirty-two point loss to the at
VU Whitten Oval in the opening round of the
2017 season. She played every match in her debut season to finish with seven matches. She was delisted by Fremantle at the end of the 2018 season.
References
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1992 births
Living people
Fremantle Football Club (AFLW) players
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
Australian women's basketball players
Perth Lynx players