Maddison Levi has been an unstoppable pressure on the Paris Olympics, scoring a record-breaking 12 tries to assist her Australian crew to the semi-finals of the Rugby Sevens.
Right here’s all the things it’s good to learn about a Sevens star who’s additionally an achieved AFL participant. And bear in mind that you may watch her within the bronze medal match of the ladies’s Olympics Rugby Sevens later in the present day.
10 issues it’s best to learn about Maddison Levi
1. Maddison Levi was born on 27 April 2002. She was introduced up in Gold Coast and attended Queensland’s Miami State Excessive Faculty, the place she was positioned on the varsity’s sevens excellence programme. She went on to be named participant of the match within the U17 Youth Rugby Sevens Nationwide Championships.
2. She’s a pure athlete, who additionally excelled at Australian Guidelines Soccer. She first performed Aussie guidelines in 2018 as a result of her college crew was quick on numbers, and inside a yr she was chosen for the U18 AFL Ladies’s Queensland State Academy. Then, in 2020, she rejected a contract from Rugby Australia to concentrate on the rival code.
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That is all it took for the Suns and Maddison Levi to kick the primary of the second half ☀️#AFLW | #AFLWSunsTigers pic.twitter.com/PwAu1NAYjb
— AFL Ladies’s (@aflwomens) March 12, 2021
3. Levi set AFLW (AFL Ladies’s) draft information within the 20-metre dash and the vertical bounce. She was subsequently chosen by hometown crew Gold Coast Suns with the fiftieth choose of the 2020 AFLW draft.
4. A clause in Levi’s Suns contract allowed her to return to rugby in emphatic vogue in 2021, simply in time for the Tokyo Olympics. Levi scored three tries, however defending champions Australia may solely end fifth after being knocked out by Fiji within the quarter-finals.
5. She made her World Sevens Collection debut in Dubai in the beginning of the 2021-22 marketing campaign. Her first season would finish in glory, with victory within the Rugby World Cup Sevens in South Africa. She scored a hat-trick within the closing towards the Black Ferns.
The tempo and the footwork to match
Maddison Levi is a few participant!#HSBC7s | #Canada7s | @Aussie7s pic.twitter.com/qyJHvkTi93
— Rugby Sevens (@SVNSSeries) April 30, 2022
6. Levi was additionally a part of the crew that took Commonwealth gold on the Birmingham Video games in 2022, scoring 10 tries on the best way to the title.
7. She’s the quickest Australian lady ever to attain 100 tries within the World Sevens collection, a feat she described as “insane”.
8. Her record-breaking kind has continued to Paris 2024, the place her 11 tries over the primary two days of the Olympics Rugby Sevens 2024 are the most effective ever figures within the match’s historical past. Unsurprisingly, she added one other attempt to that tally within the semi-final – although in the long run her aspect have been defeated by Canada.
9. She’s “somewhat bit superstitious”. “If I take heed to, say, three songs earlier than we play sport one and we win, then I take heed to these three songs earlier than the subsequent sport,” she advised Physique+Soul.
10. Maddison’s youthful sister, Teagan, additionally performs for Australia, and is a member of the Sevens squad at Paris 2024. Their father, Jason, has flown out to France to observe his daughters on the Olympics.
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