Emilee Cherry

Emilee Cherry
Date of birth (1992-11-02) 2 November 1992
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Back
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
National sevens team(s)
Years Team Comps
2012– Australia
Medal record
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam

Emilee Cherry OAM[1] (born 2 November 1992) is a semi-professional Australian Rugby Union player. She represents Australia in Sevens Rugby and won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Born in Roma, Queensland and playing for Toowoomba Bears at a club level, Cherry debuted for Australia in November 2012. As of December 2015, she had 14 caps. Cherry is a dual international, having represented Australia in Touch football (rugby league).

Cherry was the 2013/14 Women’s Sevens World Player of the Year, her game lifting after Tim Walsh took over as Head Coach in September 2013. She scored the most tries in the series (33), scored the most points (195) and was the stand-out player during the 2013–14 IRB World Series season as she was named the 2014 World Sevens Player of the Year. Representative honours include Touch Football Australia, Aussie Pearls and Queensland.[2][3][4]

Cherry was a member of Australia's team at the 2016 Olympics, defeating New Zealand in the final to win the inaugural Olympic gold medal in the sport.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Search Australian Honours: CHERRY, Emilee Jane: Medal of the Order of Australia". It's an Honour. Commonwealth of Australia. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Touch Football Australia: News Single". Touchfootball.com.au. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  3. ↑ "Emilee Cherry wins two Australian Sevens awards – Dick Marks claims Joe French Award at the John Eales Medal". Redsrugby.com.au. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  4. ↑ "News Details". Allblacks.com. 2014-05-19. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  5. ↑ "Australia wins gold in women's rugby sevens". Sky News. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  6. ↑ Newman, Beth (14 July 2016). "Rio Olympics: Australian Sevens teams announced". www.rugby.com.au. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
  7. ↑ "Rio Olympics: Australia's men's and women's sevens squads unveiled". foxsports.com.au. 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
  8. ↑ "Rio 2016: Olympic squads named by Australia for rugby sevens debut at Games". ABC.net.au. 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
  9. ↑ "Australia's Olympic Sevens squads announced". Rugby News.net.au. 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
  10. ↑ "Australia name a mix of veterans, young guns for men's, women's Olympic sevens squads". ESPN.com.au. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
  11. ↑ "Key players return as Australia name Olympic sevens squads". worldrugby.org. 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
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