Charlotte Caslick

Before her Sevens debut, Queensland-born Charlotte Caslick was a talented touch football player.

At the 2012 National Youth Championships she was named Touch Football Australia's Player of the Series, one year before her Sevens debut.

Since then Charlotte has since become one of the world’s best Sevens players. She was named in the World Series Dream Team for three straight seasons between 2014-16, scoring nine tries and setting up many more in Australia’s first series victory.

In 2013, she competed at the Australian Olympic Youth Festival, where Rugby Sevens made its debut on the 17-sport program. At the event, Charlotte was chosen to read the Olympic Oath on behalf of all athletes.

The 26-year-old made history in Rio as a part of the gold-medal winning women’s rugby sevens team. Over the Olympic tournament Charlotte scored seven tries for Australia, one of which came in the gold medal match against New Zealand.

The victory capped off a massive 2016 for the team who also became the first Australian side to win the World Series after they won three of the five events on the circuit. After an incredible year, Charlotte was named the 2016 World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year.

She then won silver at 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and a bronze at the 2018 Women’s Sevens World Cup in San Francisco.

With COVID-19 shutting down international Rugby Sevens competitions, Charlotte swapped codes briefly in 2020, playing for the Roosters in the NRLW. But after two games she suffered a season-ending injury when two small fractures were found in the middle of her back.

After a full recovery, Charlotte re-signed with Rugby Australia in November 2020 in preparation for the Tokyo Games.

At the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021 Charlotte picked up where she left off in Rio. Scoring two tries over the three Australian group stage games, she helped advance the squad to a quarter-final tie against Fiji where Australia went down, finishing fifth overall.

In 2022, Charlotte co-captained the Australian sevens team to a historic triple crown – the World Rugby Sevens Series title, Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham and the Rugby Sevens World Cup in South Africa.

Widely regarded as one of the best players on the planet, she was again crowned the Sevens Player of the Year in 2022.

Australia finished second in the 2022-23 World Rugby Sevens Series, with New Zealand taking the title, but became World Series champions once again in 2024 prior to the Olympics.

Charlotte was captain of the team at the Paris 2024 Olympics that was a perfect three wins from three games in the pool stage. They took care of Ireland in the quarter-finals 40-7 before a strong Canadian team halted Australia's run in the semi-finals, inflicting a 21-12 loss.

In a tense fight for a bronze medal against the USA, the Americans scored a converted try after time expired for a 14-12 score to relegate the Aussies to fourth place.

Charlotte, the most capped player in sevens history with well over 300 games under her belt, got engaged to former men’s sevens player Lewis Holland. They own a cattle property in Stanthorpe on Queensland’s Granite Belt.