Erin Phillips (born 1985) is an Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition and a former professional basketball player. With the launch of the AFLW in 2017, Phillips began her football career at age 31. Despite not having played competitive football since she was 13 years old, Phillips won the AFLW best and fairest award by a wide margin twice in her first three seasons in 2017 and 2019. In both years, she also led Adelaide to the premiership and won best on ground in the AFLW Grand Final. Before her football career, Phillips played nine seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), winning her first WNBA title with the Indiana Fever in 2012 and another with the Phoenix Mercury in 2014. She also represented Australia on the women's national basketball team, winning a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women and serving as a co-vice captain at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1890:

Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_Manifesto

1950:

"The Great Smoke Pall", generated by the Chinchaga fire, the largest recorded fire in North American history, was first recorded in present-day Nunavut and may eventually have circled the entire globe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchaga_fire

1975:

Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_British_Mount_Everest_Southwest_Face_expedition

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

mercurial: 1. (comparable) Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted. 2. (not comparable, astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mercury; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see adjective sense 1). 3. (not comparable, astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Mercury. 4. (not comparable, chemistry) Of or pertaining to the element mercury or quicksilver; containing mercury. 5. (not comparable, medicine) Caused by the action of mercury or a mercury compound. 6. (not comparable, Roman mythology) Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence (comparable), money-making; crafty. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mercurial

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

You have many years to live — do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.   --John Brunner https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner