Exmouth-born Mim Strom's record-breaking AFLW season has earned her plenty of plaudits, but women footballers in her home town are struggling to play competitive footy.
West Australian footballer Mim Strom has staged a career-best campaign for Fremantle 's AFL Women 's side this year.
The tiny Gascoyne Football Association, to which Exmouth has belonged since 1993, was forced to cancel its women's competition this year due to a lack of interest from the two other participating clubs. Children are only born at the local health service in emergency cases and, although Strom can neither "confirm or deny" her canonised status, the story has stoked the legend of Exmouth's favourite daughter.
"I've had a lot of incredible coaches but they've all been quite tall and I'm probably still considered an undersized ruck ," Mim said.
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