| Sienna Green | |
| Full Name: | Sienna Rose Green |
| Birth Date: | 1 November 2004 |
| Birth Place: | North Sydney, Australia |
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| Height: | 193 cm |
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| Sport: | Water polo |
| Position: | Centre back |
| Coach: | Rebecca Rippon |
Sienna Rose Green (born 1 November 2004) is an Australian female water polo Olympian, who plays the centre back position.[1] [2] [3] She competed for Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the water polo women's tournament, and won a silver medal.
Green was born in North Sydney, Australia, and is Jewish.[4] [5] 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.[5] [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] [7] [8] She became interested in water polo at age nine as she saw it as a combination of her two favourite sports, swimming and basketball.
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.
Green's coach is Australian former Olympian Rebecca Rippon.[9]
Green played for the University of Sydney Water Polo Club (the Lions).[10] With them, she won the U18 Australian Nationals competition in 2020, and an Australian Water Polo League (KAP7 Cup) title in 2021.[6] [4] [11]
She played in 2023 as a central defender for the University of California, Los Angeles, scoring 39 goals in the team's 29 games.[4] 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] [5]
Green was captain of the Australian national U18 girls' team.[4] 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.[13] [9]
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] [4]
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.[14]
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.[4] [15] She plays for the team as a utility player.[9] Green competed in all seven games at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, in Doha, Qatar, in which the team came in sixth.[16] [4]
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.[5] [17] [18] [19] 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.[5] [20]