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Australian water polo player (born 2004)

Sienna Green
Personal information
Full nameSienna Rose Green
National team Australia
Born (2004-11-01) 1 November 2004 (age 20)
North Sydney, Australia
Alma mater
Height193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Sport
SportWater polo
PositionCentre back
Coached byRebecca Rippon
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Team

Sienna Rose Green (born 1 November 2004) is an Australian female water polo Olympian, who plays the centre back position. She competed for Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the water polo women's tournament, and won a silver medal.

Early and personal life

Green was born in North Sydney, Australia, and is Jewish. She is the daughter of former water polo players Tessa and Antony Green; her father represented Australia at the 1989 Maccabiah Games (winning a bronze medal) and the 1993 Maccabiah Games in Israel. She has one older sister, Allie, and one older brother, Zac (who played for the Australian men's U18 water polo team, and plays water polo as a defender for UC Santa Barbara). She became interested in water polo at age nine as she saw it as a combination of her two favourite sports, swimming and basketball.

She attended high school at SCEGGS Darlinghurst in Sydney, and lives in Mosman, Australia. Green is 193 cm (6 feet 4 inches) tall, and is the tallest person in her family.

Water polo career

Green's coach is Australian former Olympian Rebecca Rippon.

Green played for the University of Sydney Water Polo Club (the Lions). With them, she won the U18 Australian Nationals competition in 2020, and an Australian Water Polo League (KAP7 Cup) title in 2021.

She played in 2023 as a central defender for the University of California, Los Angeles, scoring 39 goals in the team's 29 games. The team made it to the NCAA semifinals, where it lost to Stanford University, which went on to win the national championship. Green was named Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-American (Honorable Mention 2023), Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) All-Newcomer Team (2023), and ACWPC All-Academic (Outstanding 2023).

Green was captain of the Australian national U18 girls' team. She was captain and the highest goal-scorer of the Australian team at the 2022 FINA World Women's Youth Water Polo Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.

In 2022, Green earned her first cap for the Stingers, the Australia women's national water polo team, at the 2022 FINA Water Polo World League Intercontinental Cup against Canada; the Stingers won the gold medal in the tournament.

In September 2023 she played for the Australian Women's U20 team in the 2023 World Aquatics Women's U20 Water Polo Championships in Portugal.

At 19 years of age, Green was made the youngest member of the Stingers' 2024 world championships team, and the youngest member of the Stingers ever. She plays for the team as a utility player. Green competed in all seven games at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, in Doha, Qatar, in which the team came in sixth.

2024 Paris Olympics

Green competed for Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Water polo women's tournament at the Paris Aquatic Centre and Paris La Défense Arena, and won a silver medal with Australia. She was the youngest Australian woman to compete in Water Polo in the Olympics, and scored three goals in seven games, six of which Australia won.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sienna Green," Olympics.com.
  2. "Sienna Green," Eurosport.
  3. ^ "Sienna Green – 2024 Olympics". UCLA Bruins. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  4. "Sienna Green". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Sienna Green," UCLA Bruins.
  6. ^ Shane Desiatnik (22 February 2024). "Green goes great in worlds debut; NSW Institute of Sport's water polo program head coach Jacki Northam predicted Green would be "a player to watch … ready to unleash on the world,"" Australian Jewish News.
  7. ^ Jacob Gurvis (10 August 2024). "Jewish water polo star Sienna Green wins silver with Australia," Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
  8. ^ Shane Desiatnik (10 February 2021). "Callout for Maccabiah water polo players," Australian Jewish News.
  9. "2023 Men's Water Polo Roster; Zac Green," UCSB Gauchos.
  10. ^ "Sienna Green". Australian Olympic Committee. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  11. "Water polo women off to Paris," Sydney Uni Sport, 21 May 2024.
  12. "Women’s Water Polo Opens 2024 Campaign with Winter Invitational Weekend," UC Santa Barbara, 19 January 2024.
  13. "Sienna Green," UCLA.
  14. "Aussies open World U20 Water Polo Championships with thumping win," nswis.com, 9 September 2023.
  15. "Paris 2024 Preview: Water Polo," Water Polo Australia, 26 July 2024.
  16. "Sienna GREEN | Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  17. "Sienna Green," Olympics.com.
  18. "Australian 2024 Paris Olympic Games Water Polo Team Portrait Session". Getty Images. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  19. Ali Asgar Nalwala (9 May 2024). "PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS WATER POLO: ZOE ARANCINI TO LEAD 13-MEMBER AUSSIE STINGERS SQUAD". olympics.com.
  20. "Thirteen-strong Aussie Stingers Water Polo Team selected for Paris Olympics," Olympics.com.

External links

Australia women's water polo squad – 2024 Summer Olympics – Silver medal
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