Maddison Levi has been an unstoppable drive on the Paris Olympics, scoring a record-breaking 14 tries as her Australian crew completed fourth within the competitors.
Right here’s all the things you could find out about a Sevens star who’s additionally an completed AFL participant.
10 issues it is best to find out 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 data within the 20-metre dash and the vertical soar. She was subsequently chosen by hometown crew Gold Coast Suns with the fiftieth decide 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 Sequence 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 remaining 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 sequence, a feat she described as “insane”.
8. Her record-breaking kind continued into Paris 2024, the place her 14 tries over the three days of the Olympics Rugby Sevens 2024 are one of the best ever figures within the match’s historical past.
9. She’s “slightly bit superstitious”. “If I hearken to, say, three songs earlier than we play sport one and we win, then I hearken to these three songs earlier than the following sport,” she instructed Physique+Soul.
10. Maddison’s youthful sister, Teagan, additionally performs for Australia, and was a member of the Sevens squad at Paris 2024. Their father, Jason, flew out to France to observe his daughters on the Olympics.
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