She played ladies' Gaelic football with her local club, Kilkerrin-Clonberne, and with the Galway county team.
[4][5] Clarke won the All-Ireland Junior Ladies' Football Championship with Galway in 2002, and captained Galway to the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship in 2004.
[6] She suffered a near-career-ending injury in 2010 and was dropped from the Galway squad in 2012.
Clarke, however, returned to the Galway squad, winning a second All Star in 2013[7] and captaining her club to a Connacht Ladies Senior Club Football Championship in 2014.
[9] Annette Clarke is a member of Garda Síochána, the Irish police.