After contacting the Women's Football Association (WFA) for a club, Pollard was put in touch with Yorkshire and Humberside League Bradford City, who she joined at youth level.
Bronte's stalwart defender Clare Taylor left for Knowsley United in the close season and without her the team performed poorly in the top division.
The transfer was agreed by outgoing manager Paul Edmunds prior to his departure, after Pollard attended a Doncaster Belles match as a guest of her former Bronte team-mate Chantel Woodhead.
[1] Pollard was called into the senior England women's national football team at 16 years old, on the recommendation of her Bronte team-mate Clare Taylor.
[1] After an "accomplished season" with Doncaster Belles she was recalled by England for their UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualifying play-off defeat by Spain in September 1996.