Amy Boyle Carr is ready for new adventure with Adelaide Crows 'Down Under'

Following the completion of the inter-county season at the start of the month, Donegal star Amy Boyle Carr finally arrived in Adelaide to commence her AFLW season in August. 

Adelaide Crows will play two pre-season matches - one against Port Adelaide in Port Augusta on Sunday, August 11 - before facing Carlton at Unley Oval on Sunday, August 18. 

The Crows’ 2024 AFLW campaign gets underway with a Showdown against Port Adelaide under lights at Alberton Oval on Saturday, August 31. 

It has been a long season for the talented half-forward from Naomh Conaill with her Donegal team overcoming Kildare by one point in a relegation play-off at the start of June for the green and gold to remain in the senior championship for the 2025 season. 

Despite what 2025 holds for Carr and her Donegal future, for now, her total focus is playing ‘Down Under’.  

It was always going to be accepted that the Donegal woman was going to have a bright future in sport. 

Making soccer her focus in her teens, she was selected to play in a FIFA World Cup Qualifier against the Netherlands in 2018, at only 17 years old, only to return to the GAA in 2019 to focus on playing with Donegal. 

Now, five years later, the 23-year-old is preparing to switch codes again - this time to Australian Rules - with the Adelaide Crows. 

“You get to meet so many different people with sport and I just enjoy playing any sport, and now coming into the AFLW, it’s definitely a challenge I want to take on,” Carr told the Adelaide Crows website 

The Crows signed Carr as a rookie ahead of the 2024 AFLW season, with the vision of her playing GAA for Donegal impressing Adelaide Senior Coach Matthew Clarke. 

“I was definitely shocked when they called last October and even now it still feels a bit surreal,” she said. 

“Yvonne Bonner (former Crows and GWS AFLW player) was drafted from the same county that I’m from and we played together for a few years. 

“When the Crows were looking at the vision of Yvonne, I appeared in a few of them, so that’s when it kind of happened and it took off from there. 

“It’s just an amazing opportunity, especially being asked to come out by a team like the Crows who are so successful. 

“I am looking forward to easing into things a bit more and getting used to the set-up and I’m just excited to get into training.”