Some players like to spend their off-season on the beach.
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Others, on the physio's table.
Jordan Baker? She never leaves the pitch.
Between W-League duties, Young Matildas qualifiers and Australian Schoolgirls trips, the Illawarra Stingrays striker rarely gets the chance to have a rest.
"I had a two-week break over Christmas but I haven't really stopped since last year so it will be straight back into it," she said.
Since Baker's Stingrays commitments finished at the end of last August, she had to juggle W-League and national team duties.
She began her second full season with the Western Sydney Wanderers almost straight after the National Premier League campaign.
The club would finish bottom of the W-League.
"It wasn't overly successful but I still think I got a lot out of it," Baker said.
"I am still developing my game so it is great in teams like that."
Despite the Wanderers' lowly finish in the league, Baker did enough to impress national selectors and be chosen for her first Australian team.
She was picked as part of an under 19s squad touring Vietnam in order to qualify for the AFC Women's Championships for the age group.
"It was a very different experience to how it is all run and the training I have been doing. It was quite full on but I liked it," Baker said of the tour.
"It was a fairly new team for me. I had played with a few of the NSW girls but most I had played against during my time with the Wanderers.
"We were pretty successful over there."
The Young Matildas won all three matches in Vietnam to qualify for the 2015 AFC U19 Women's Championship in China in August.
Baker scored four goals in the tournament, all coming in Australia's 19-0 demolition of Singapore, and has targeted a place on the AFC Championship squad.
"I just have to perform well with the Stingrays and hopefully that can keep me noticed for the next camp. I just have to stay in form," she said.
Making the squad would continue a green and golden year in 2015. The 18-year-old travelled to the United Kingdom and Ireland in January as part of the Australian Schoolgirls team.
"It was really good but so cold. We played English schools and the Ireland schools as well as Cardiff City and Arsenal Ladies. They were really good," she said.