Emilee Cherry
Date of birth | 2 November 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
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Emilee Cherry (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.[1][2][3] 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.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] References
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- 1992 births
- Australian female rugby union players
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Female rugby sevens players
- Australia women's international rugby union players
- Living people
- Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Olympic Games
- Olympic rugby sevens players of Australia
- Touch footballers
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in rugby sevens
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Australian international rugby sevens players