Ellia Green

Ellia Green grew up competing in athletics before she was recruited into the Australian Rugby Sevens program after attending a talent identification camp in Melbourne in 2012, a move that certainly paid off for the Olympic Champion. Green made her international debut in 2013 in Houston and has since become one of the stars of the side. 

During a three-match exhibition series at the Gold Coast Sevens in 2014, the international spotlight was on Elia, when she scored a run-away 80-metre try against Canada . Within four hours, the try had been viewed over 200,000 times on the World Rugby Sevens World Series Facebook page. 

The 28-year-old made history in Rio as a part of the gold-medal winning women’s rugby sevens team in Rio. Ellia was one of Australia’s four try scorers in the gold medal match to secure a 24-17 win over fierce rivals New Zealand to grab her piece of Olympic history.

The victory capped off a massive 2016 for the side who also became the first Australian side to win the World Series. Throughout the series, Ellia crossed the stripe 17 times to finish the season as the fourth highest try scorer. 

In 2017, Ellia ruptured her ACL during a tournament in japan, however, she was back in time for the third leg of the 2018-19 World Rugby Sevens Series, where Australia took silver to NZ, but finished fourth overall.

Ellia struck another silver as a member of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games rugby team.