Sienna Rose Green (born 1 November 2004) is an Australian female water polo Olympian, who plays the centre back position.[2][3][4] She competed for Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the water polo women's tournament, and won a silver medal.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Sienna Rose Green |
| National team |  Australia |
| Born | 1 November 2004 North Sydney, Australia[1] |
| Alma mater | |
| Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Water polo |
| Position | Centre back |
| Coached by | Rebecca Rippon |
Medal record | |
Early and personal life
editGreen was born in North Sydney, Australia, and is Jewish.[5][6][7] 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.[8][7][5] 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).[5][9][8] She became interested in water polo at age nine as she saw it as a combination of her two favourite sports, swimming and basketball.[10]
She attended high school at SCEGGS Darlinghurst in Sydney, and lives in Mosman, Australia.[5] Green is 193 cm (6 feet 4 inches) tall, and is the tallest person in her family.[3]
Water polo career
editGreen's coach is Australian former Olympian Rebecca Rippon.[1]
Green played for the University of Sydney Water Polo Club (the Lions).[11] With them, she won the U18 Australian Nationals competition in 2020, and an Australian Water Polo League (KAP7 Cup) title in 2021.[5][6][10]
She played in 2023 as a central defender for the University of California, Los Angeles, scoring 39 goals in the team's 29 games.[6] The team made it to the NCAA semifinals, where it lost to Stanford University, which went on to win the national championship.[12] 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).[5][7]
Green was captain of the Australian national U18 girls' team.[6] 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.[13][1]
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.[5][6]
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.[14]
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.[6][15] She plays for the team as a utility player.[1] Green competed in all seven games at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, in Doha, Qatar, in which the team came in sixth.[16][6]
2024 Paris Olympics
editGreen 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.[7][17][18][19] 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.[7][20]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d "Sienna Green," Olympics.com.
- ^ "Sienna Green," Eurosport.
- ^ a b "Sienna Green – 2024 Olympics". UCLA Bruins. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Sienna Green". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Sienna Green," UCLA Bruins.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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.
- ^ a b c d e Jacob Gurvis (10 August 2024). "Jewish water polo star Sienna Green wins silver with Australia," Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
- ^ a b Shane Desiatnik (10 February 2021). "Callout for Maccabiah water polo players," Australian Jewish News.
- ^ "2023 Men's Water Polo Roster; Zac Green," UCSB Gauchos.
- ^ a b "Sienna Green". Australian Olympic Committee. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Water polo women off to Paris," Sydney Uni Sport, 21 May 2024.
- ^ "Women’s Water Polo Opens 2024 Campaign with Winter Invitational Weekend," UC Santa Barbara, 19 January 2024.
- ^ "Sienna Green," UCLA.
- ^ "Aussies open World U20 Water Polo Championships with thumping win," nswis.com, 9 September 2023.
- ^ "Paris 2024 Preview: Water Polo," Water Polo Australia, 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Sienna GREEN | Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Sienna Green," Olympics.com.
- ^ "Australian 2024 Paris Olympic Games Water Polo Team Portrait Session". Getty Images. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ Ali Asgar Nalwala (9 May 2024). "PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS WATER POLO: ZOE ARANCINI TO LEAD 13-MEMBER AUSSIE STINGERS SQUAD". olympics.com.
- ^ "Thirteen-strong Aussie Stingers Water Polo Team selected for Paris Olympics," Olympics.com.