Valentine Holmes
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Valentine Holmes (born 24 July 1995) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League. A fullback or winger, he is an Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative. He began his career with the Cronulla Sharks, with whom he won the 2016 NRL Premiership. In 2019, he made a switch to the National Football League, spending several months on the New York Jets' practice squad.

Holmes was born in Townsville, Queensland on 24 July 1995 to a Cook Islands mother and a Māori father.

He played his junior rugby league in Townsville for the Western Lions, before being signed by National Rugby League club, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, in 2012 at the age of 17. Holmes moved to Sydney in 2013 to play for the Sharks' SG Ball Cup team. Later that year, he made his debut for the Sharks NYC team, scoring 17 tries in 10 games and played representative rugby league for the Queensland Under 18s team. In September 2013, Holmes, whose father is from New Zealand, was named in the 2013 Junior Kiwis train-on squad. In December 2013, Holmes was named in the 2014 Queensland Academy of Sport Under 20s Emerging Origin squad.