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Sienna Green
Personal information
Full name	Sienna Rose Green
National team	Australia
Born	1 November 2004 (age 19); North Sydney, Australia
Alma mater	University of Sydney; University of California, Los Angeles;
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Sport
Sport	Water polo
Position	Centre back
Coached by	Rebecca Rippon
Medal record
Olympic Games

Sienna Rose Green (born 1 November 2004) is an Australian female water polo Olympian, who plays the centre back position.^[2]^[3]^[4] She competed for Australia at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the water polo women's tournament, and won a silver medal.

Early and personal life

Green was born in North Sydney, Australia, and is Jewish.^[5]^[6]^[7] 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.^[8]^[7]^[5] 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).^[5]^[9]^[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.^[10]

She attended high school at SCEGGS Darlinghurst in Sydney, and lives in Mosman, Australia.^[5] Green is 193 cm (6 feet 4 inches) tall, and is the tallest person in her family.^[3]

Water polo career

Green's coach is Australian former Olympian Rebecca Rippon.^[1]

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.^[5]^[6]^[10]

She played in 2023 as a central defender for the University of California, Los Angeles, scoring 39 goals in the team's 29 games.^[6] 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).^[5]^[7]

Green was captain of the Australian national U18 girls' team.^[6] 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]^[1]

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.^[5]^[6]

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.^[6]^[15] She plays for the team as a utility player.^[1] Green competed in all seven games at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, in Doha, Qatar, in which the team came in sixth.^[16]^[6]

2024 Paris Olympics

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.^[7]^[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.^[7]^[20]