Suncorp Super Netball heads to Orange this weekend and it could be particularly special for one player.
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The Giants take on the Adelaide Thunderbirds in a pre-season clash on Saturday at the Orange PCYC and it's a special homecoming for Annie Miller.
Miller hopes to run out for the Giants for the first time where she grew up.
"The fact that the first time I wear the orange dress could be in the town where I was born and first started playing netball is just insane," she told Giants Netball media.
"Even just to put it on and warm up - I'd be happy with that."
The weekend's visit includes a clinic for junior netballers on the Saturday morning, followed by an open and ticketed match at the PCYC on Saturday night.
"When I was little, we never had opportunities like this," Miller said.
"If you wanted to watch players or a level of competition like this, you had to travel.
"Having players of Super Netball calibre come out and play on the court that you as a young kid did ... will just be really cool.
"It will be good to do the clinic on the Saturday and work with the little kids, I think that will be really important.
"And for the community of Orange, you know we're a big regional city but we are still a country town. So, it's pretty cool and it doesn't happen every weekend."
Starting her netball journey at school, Miller progressed through the pathway representing local sides CYMS and Life Studio, before representing Orange at State Age Championships where her talent was identified.
Ahead of turning 16 and a family relocation to Sydney, Miller travelled in to Sydney's metropolitan area to trial for Manly Warringah in Netball New South Wales' Premier League Competition.
She has since represented NSW at the 17U and 19U National Netball Championships, made respective Australian Squads, was a member of the NSWIS Netball Program and more recently the Giants Netball Academy and the Australian 21U Squad.
Miller describes her time in the elevated Giants program as "incredible".
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