Australia women's national rugby sevens team

Australia

Union

Australian Rugby Union

Coach(es)

Tim Walsh

Captain(s)

Sharni Williams

Team kit

World Cup Sevens

Appearances

2 (First in 2009)

Best result

Champions (2009)

Australia with possession during the women's final at the 2016 Olympic Sevens.

The Australia women's national rugby sevens team represents Australia at a national level. They were champions of the inaugural Women's Sevens World Cup in 2009. The team plays in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series as one of the "core teams" on the world tour,^[1] of which they were crowned Champions in 2015–16.^[2]^[3] The team also played in the preceding competition to the current world series, the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup. In 2016, they won the inaugural gold medal at the Rio Olympics.^[4]

As of 2015, the team also competes in the Pacific Games Sevens.^[5]^[6]

Australia vs New Zealand at the Dubai Sevens

Team name

The national sevens side is known as Australia and, as confirmed by captain Sharni Williams, does not have a nickname as of 2015.^[7] The team is sometimes referred to as the Pearls in sections of the media,^[8] but that name refers to Australia's developmental sevens side that participates in domestic tournaments rather than the official national team.^[7]

Honours

2016 Oceania Women's Sevens Winner
2016 Olympics Rugby Sevens - Women Gold Medal
2015–16 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series Champions
2016 USA Women's Sevens Winner
2016 São Paulo Women's Sevens Winner
2015 Dubai Women's Sevens Winner
2015 London Women's Sevens Winner
2014 São Paulo Women's Sevens Winner
2013 Dubai Women's Sevens Winner
2013 Oceania Women's Sevens Champions
2012 Asia-Pacific Championship Winner
2012 Darwin Hottest Sevens Winner
2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens Champions
2009 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winner
2008 Oceania Women's Sevens Winner

Tournament record

A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Australia

World Cup Sevens results

Rugby World Cup Sevens
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2009	Final	01 !	6	5	1	0
2013	Plate final	5	6	5	1	0
2018	Schedule to be confirmed
Total	1 Title	2/2	12	10	2	0

Olympic Games results

Olympic Games
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2016	Final	01 !	6	5	0	1
Total	1 Title	1/1	6	5	0	1

Commonwealth Games results

Commonwealth Games
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2018	Hosts
Total	0 Titles	0/0	0	0	0	0

Pacific Games results

Pacific Games
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2011	Not invited
2015	Final	02 !	7	6	1	0
Total	0 Titles	1/2	7	6	1	0

Oceania Women's Sevens results

Oceania Women's Sevens
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2008	Final	01 !	6	6	0	0
2012	Final	02 !	6	5	1	0
2013	Final	01 !	6	6	0	0
2014	Final	02 !	8	6	2	0
2015	Did not attend
2016	Final	01 !	6	6	0	0
Total	3 Titles	5/6	32	29	3	0

World Series record

2010s

Summary for Series I to VIII


	Challenge 11–12	I 12–13	II 13–14	III 14–15

Middle East	03 !rd Dubai	4th Dubai	01 !st Dubai	02 !nd Dubai

Oceania	–	–	–	–

Americas	–	–	01 !st São Paulo	02 !nd São Paulo
	–	03 !rd Houston	03 !rd Atlanta	5th Atlanta
	–	–	–	7th Victoria B.C.

Asia	02 !nd Hong Kong	7th Guangzhou	02 !nd Guangzhou	–

Europe	4th London	–	–	01 !st London
Europe	–	7th Amsterdam	02 !nd Amsterdam	02 !nd Amsterdam

	3/3	4/4 46 pts 5th ^[9]	5/5 92 pts nd ^[10]	6/6 94 pts rd

Women's Sevens Series
IV 15–16		V 16–17	VI 17–18	VII 18–19	VIII 19–20

	01 !st Dubai	02 !nd Dubai

	–	Sydney

	01 !st São Paulo	–
	01 !st Atlanta	Las Vegas
	03 !rd Victoria B.C.	Victoria B.C.

	–	Kitakyushu

	–	–
	02 !nd Clermont	Clermont

5/5 94 pts st		1/6 18 pts 2nd

Team

Current squad

TBC

Previous squads

2016 Summer Olympics

The following is the Australia roster in the women's rugby sevens tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[11]

Head coach: Tim Walsh

Backs		Forwards

3	Nicole Beck	1	Shannon Parry (c)
5	Emma Tonegato	2	Sharni Williams (c)
6	Evania Pelite	4	Gemma Etheridge
7	Charlotte Caslick	8	Chloe Dalton
10	Alicia Quirk	9	Amy Turner
11	Emilee Cherry
12	Ellia Green

2015 Pacific Games ^[12]^[13]^[14]
Nicole Beck (c) Brooke Anderson Dominique "Dom" Du Toit Nikki Etheridge Georgie Friedrichs Mollie Gray Sarah Halvorsen Mahalia Murphy Taleena Simon Tanisha Stanton Laura Waldie Brooke Walker

2014 Qantas Women's Squad
Brooke Anderson Katrina Barker Nicole Beck Charlotte Caslick Emilee Cherry Rachel Crothers Maddison Elliot Cobie-Jane Morgan Shannon Parry Nikki Etheridge Gemma Etheridge Ellia Green Evania Perlite Tiana Penitani Alica Quirk Saofaiga Saemo Kirby Sefo Emma Tonegato Amy Turner Sharni Williams (c)

Coaches

Name	Nationality	Tenure	Refs
Tim Walsh		2013–present	^[15]
Chris Lane		2011–13	^[16]

References

↑ "IRB announces Women's Sevens World Series" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
↑ "Australian women's side secure rugby sevens world series title". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. 29 May 2016. Archived from the original on 30 May 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
↑ "Series champions Australia second in Clermont". www.rugby.com.au. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
↑ "Australia wins gold in women's rugby sevens". Sky News. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
↑ "Australia and New Zealand to compete in Pacific Games". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 July 2014. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
↑ Chand, Shalveen (30 April 2015). "History for 2015 Pacific Games". The Fiji Times. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
1 2 Polkinghorne, David (7 December 2015). "Women's sevens captain Sharni Williams waiting for results of knee scans". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Archived from the original on 2 July 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
↑ "Australian Rugby Sevens tops Oceania qualifying to reach for 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 15 November 2015. Archived from the original on 2 July 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
↑ "2013 IRB Women's Sevens Standings". Rugby7.
↑ "2014 IRB Women's Sevens Standings". Rugby7.
↑ "Rio 2016: Olympic squads named by Australia for rugby sevens debut at Games". ABC News. 14 July 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
↑ "Beck Named Captain Of Australian Women's Sevens Squad For Pacific Games". rugby.com.au. Australian Rugby Union. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
↑ "Australian team for 2015 Pacific Games" (PDF). olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
↑ "Rugby Union 7s Female: Australia". pg2015.gems.pro. 2015 Pacific Games. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
↑ "Former Australian Sevens rep named new Women's coach". Australian Rugby. 19 September 2013. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
↑ "Qantas Women's Sevens coach resigns". Australian Rugby. 20 July 2013. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.

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