Abi Curtin: Fire & Basketball

A night of impulse and doomscrolling led Abi Curtin to firefighting. Her path might not be the most beaten, it's always been her own.

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Basketball has always found its way to Abi Curtin. Having grown up playing, her joy for the game has never come into question, as she tells The Pick and Roll.

“When I was a kid, I wasn't particularly good. I loved it, I played rep, but I wasn't like a superstar as a kid, but I really, really enjoyed the sport.”

She was faced with an adversity that isn’t for the faint of heart. “I broke my femur, so I didn’t play a lot of under 16 or under 18. So I feel like I missed also that space of development. I didn’t even consider coming back at that point because you haven’t played basketball for almost three years at a competitive level. But I got really lucky, someone brought me into an NBL1 team and I realised how much I loved it.”

A broken femur at such an early age could discourage a budding athlete off the path, but it continued to forge it for Curtin.