Sienna Green

Sienna Green
Personal information
Full nameSienna Rose Green
Born (2004-11-01) 1 November 2004[1]
North Sydney, Australia[2]
Home townMosman, Australia[2]
Alma mater
Height193 cm (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Sport
Country Australia
SportWater polo
PositionCentre back
Coached byRebecca Rippon[2]
Medal record
Olympic Games
2024 Paris Team

Sienna Rose Green (born 1 November 2004) is an Australian female water polo Olympian, who plays the centre back position.[3][4][5] She competed for Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the water polo women's tournament, and won a silver medal.[1]

Early and personal life

Green was born in North Sydney, Australia, and is Jewish.[6][7][8] 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.[9][8][6] 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).[6][10][9] She became interested in water polo at age nine as she saw it as a combination of her two favourite sports, swimming and basketball.[2]

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

Water polo career

Green's coach is Australian former Olympian Rebecca Rippon.[2]

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.[6][7][2]

She played in 2023 as a central defender for the University of California, Los Angeles, scoring 39 goals in the team's 29 games.[7] 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).[6][8]

Green was captain of the Australian national U18 girls' team.[7] 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.[4][2]

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.[6][7]

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.[13]

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.[7][14] She plays for the team as a utility player.[2] Green competed in all seven games at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, in Doha, Qatar, in which the team came in sixth.[15][7]

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.[8][16][17][18] 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.[8][19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "GREEN Sienna". Paris 2024 Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Sienna Green". Olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Sienna Green". Eurosport.
  4. ^ a b c "Sienna Green – 2024 Olympics". UCLA Bruins. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Sienna Green". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Sienna Green". UCLA Bruins.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ a b c d e Jacob Gurvis (10 August 2024). "Jewish water polo star Sienna Green wins silver with Australia". Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
  9. ^ a b Shane Desiatnik (10 February 2021). "Callout for Maccabiah water polo players," Australian Jewish News.
  10. ^ "2023 Men's Water Polo Roster; Zac Green". UCSB Gauchos.
  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. ^ "Aussies open World U20 Water Polo Championships with thumping win". nswis.com. 9 September 2023.
  14. ^ "Paris 2024 Preview: Water Polo". Water Polo Australia. 26 July 2024.
  15. ^ "Sienna GREEN | Results | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  16. ^ "Sienna Green". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
  17. ^ "Australian 2024 Paris Olympic Games Water Polo Team Portrait Session". Getty Images. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  18. ^ Ali Asgar Nalwala (9 May 2024). "PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS WATER POLO: ZOE ARANCINI TO LEAD 13-MEMBER AUSSIE STINGERS SQUAD". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
  19. ^ "Thirteen-strong Aussie Stingers Water Polo Team selected for Paris Olympics". Olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee.
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