Phillips, Erin

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Name	Phillips, Erin Gender: F
Birthname	Erin Victoria Phillips
born on	19 May 1985 at 12:00 (= 12:00 noon )
Place	Melbourne, Australia, 37s49, 144e58
Timezone	AEST h10e (is standard time)
Data source	From memory Rodden Rating A Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	28°03' 19°02 Asc. 03°31'

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Erin Phillips (playing football for Port Adelaide in 2022)
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Biography

Australian Olympic sportswoman who plays basketball and formerly played Australian rules football. She played nine seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for five different teams and is a two-time WNBA champion. She also represented Australia on the women's national basketball team, winning a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women, winning a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics, and serving as a co-vice captain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also played for the Adelaide and Port Adelaide Football Clubs in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, retiring in 2023. She is a three-time premiership player and two-time league best and fairest.

Phillips's father Greg played professional Australian rules football for Port Adelaide, where he was an eight-time premiership player and earned an induction into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Phillips played only Australian rules football until age 13, switching to basketball because of the lack of professional opportunities for female footballers at the time. She made her debut in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) for the Adelaide Lightning, her hometown team, at the age of 17 and was named to the All-WNBL Team three times by the age of 22, finally winning a WNBL championship in 2008 in her last year with the team. Phillips was drafted into the WNBA in 2005 by the Connecticut Sun. With the Indiana Fever, she established herself as a starter and won her first WNBA title in 2012. She won another WNBA title two years later with the Phoenix Mercury. During her basketball career, Phillips played both point guard and shooting guard, excelling at three-pointers and employing a physical style of play. Following her retirement from the WNBA, she was also an assistant coach for the Dallas Wings, the last team she played for in the league. In 2025, she will return to basketball in the NBL1 Central with the Woodville Warriors.

With the launch of the AFLW in 2017, Phillips began her football career at age 31 as a co-captain of Adelaide. Despite not having played competitive football in nearly 18 years, she quickly emerged as the league's best player and one of its biggest stars. She won the AFLW best and fairest award by a wide margin in both 2017 and 2019, as well as the AFLW Grand Final best on ground as a member of Adelaide's premiership teams in both years. Phillips played as a midfielder and was also one of the leading goal scorers in the competition.

Phillips is married to American former basketball player Tracy Gahan. The pair met when they became teammates on the Adelaide Lightning in the WNBL in 2006, and became a couple the following year. They married in 2014 in the United States before same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia. They have three children, son and daughter twins born in 2016, and a second son born in 2019. Phillips and Gahan have split their time between living in Texas and Adelaide.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

• Relationship : Marriage 2014 (Tracy Gahan)

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes from the book, Inside and Out: A Story of Sport, Family and Self, by Erin Phillips (Hardie Grant, 2025):

"Mum still says it was an easy birth, bless her little white lie. A short labour. And, around lunchtime on 19 May 1985 it ultimately delivered my parents a third daughter... in Carlton, Victoria."

Categories

• Traits : Body : Size (1.73 m/ 5 ft 8 in)

• Traits : Body : Weight (75 kg/ 165 lb)

• Family : Childhood : Family noted

• Family : Childhood : Order of birth (Youngest of three girls)

• Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted

• Family : Relationship : Mate - Same sex

• Family : Parenting : Birthing - Twins, triplets, etc. (Twins)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Three)

• Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate (USA)

• Passions : Sexuality : Lesbian

• Vocation : Sports : Basketball (Point guard/ shooting guard)

• Vocation : Sports : Football (Australian rules football midfielder)

• Vocation : Sports Business : Coach/ Manager/ Owner (Basketball coach)

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer ("Inside and Out")

• Notable : Awards : Medals

• Notable : Awards : Olympics (Silver medal, Team basketball, Australia)

• Notable : Awards : Sports Championship