Personal information | |
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Full name | Sienna Rose Green |
Born | [1] North Sydney, Australia [2] | 1 November 2004
Home town | Mosman, Australia [2] |
Alma mater | |
Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) [1] |
Sport | |
Country | ![]() |
Sport | Water polo |
Position | Centre back |
Coached by | Rebecca Rippon [2] |
Medal record |
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]
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]
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]
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]