Ellia Green

Ellia Green

Date of birth	(1993-02-20) February 20, 1993
Place of birth	Suva, Fiji
Height
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Back
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	Warringah
Sevens national teams
Years	Club / team		Comps
2013-Present	Australia

Ellia Green (born 20 February 1993) is a semi-professional Rugby Union player. She represents Australia in Sevens Rugby. Born in Suva, Fiji and playing for Warringah at a club level, she debuted for Australia in February 2013. As of December 2015, she currently has 13 caps.

Ellia started Little Athletics at the age of six when she began sprinting. She spent 10 years in athletics, representing Australia in the 100m, 200m and long jump at the World Junior Championships, until her cousins convinced her to try a hand at rugby sevens.

Ellia catapulted into the international spotlight when she scored an astonishing 80-metre try against Canada in the three-match exhibition series at the Gold Coast Sevens, a match broadcast live on Fox Sports. Within four hours, the try had been viewed over 200,000 times on the IRB Sevens World Series Facebook page. Undoubtedly the team’s biggest character, Ellia was recruited by the Australian Rugby Sevens program after attending a Pathway to Gold Talent ID camp in Melbourne in 2012. Ellia is a sprinter by trade, having previously represented Australia in athletics at the World School Games in Qatar in 2009 and memorably scored the winning try after the siren against Canada at Twickenham in the Sevens World Series in May 2015. Representative Honours include Victoria.