Tori Groves-Little: Difference between revisions

| pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref name="Whiting">{{Cite web |title='I'm here to educate': Why Tori wants you to ask the question |last=Whiting |first=Holly |work=AFLW |date=23 December 2021 |access-date=5 January 2022 |url= https://www.womens.afl/news/78457/-i-m-here-to-educate-why-tori-wants-you-to-ask-the-question}}</ref>

'''Tori Groves-Little''' is an Australian rules footballer playing for Gold Coast in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Groves-Little grew up in Logan, Queensland and attended Beenleigh State High School throughout their teenage years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-10-07/aflw-groveslittle-a-one-of-a-kind-draft-prospect|title=Groves-Little a one of a kind draft prospect|publisher=AFL.com.au|last=Black|first=Sarah|date=7 October 2018|accessdate=22 July 2019}}</ref> They played junior football for the Beenleigh Buffaloes in the local Queensland competition in their younger years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/logan/beenleigh-buffaloes-player-tori-groveslittle-stars-at-national-afl-schoolgirls-championships/news-story/98d546b5bef164a28dd23433831d9a4b|title=Beenleigh Buffaloes player Tori Groves-Little stars at national AFL Schoolgirls championships|publisher=The Courier Mail|last=Cormack|first=Holly|date=8 August 2015|accessdate=10 March 2019}}</ref> They joined the [[Gold Coast Football Club|Gold Coast Suns academy program at the age of 16<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldcoastfc.com.au/news/2019-06-12/how-concussion-shaped-toris-story|title=Tori's story: from competitive skipping to AFLW|publisher=goldcoastfc.com.au|last=Cheadle|first=Josh|date=12 June 2019|accessdate=12 June 2019}}</ref> and became the youngest player to win the QWAFL best and fairest award at the age of 17.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aflq.com.au/groves-little-becomes-youngest-ever-qwafl-best-and-fairest-winner/|title=Groves-Little becomes youngest ever QWAFL Best and Fairest winner|publisher=AFL Queensland|last=Wingard|first=Ant|date=17 September 2018|accessdate=5 September 2019}}</ref> Later that year they were drafted by the Brisbane Lions with the 56th pick in the 2018 AFL Women's draft.<ref name="Lions AFL">{{cite web|title=Brisbane Lions AFL Women's Players|url=http://www.lions.com.au/afl-womens/afl-womens-players|publisher=Brisbane Lions|accessdate=12 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203095550/http://www.lions.com.au/afl-womens/afl-womens-players|archive-date=3 February 2019}}</ref>

{{quote|There's two parts of being non-binary. There's one where you're more [[gender-fluid]] where you could wake up and feel more [[feminine]] or one day you feel more [[masculine]]. And there's the second one, which I identify more as, is neither. It sucks medically when you've got to put male or female, it just doesn't feel right. It's just gender-neutral, I guess. I don't like to identify as either."

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