Australia women's national rugby union team

Australia

Union	Australian Rugby Union
Nickname(s)	Wallaroos
Coach(es)	Paul Verrell
Captain(s)
Most caps	(-)
Top scorer	(-)
Team kit Change kit
First international
Australia 0-37 New Zealand  (Sydney, Australia 2 September 1994)
Largest win
Australia 87-0 Samoa  (Samoa, 08 August 2009)
Largest defeat
New Zealand 64-0 Australia  (Auckland, New Zealand 22 July 1995)
World Cup
Appearances	5 (First in 1998)
Best result	3rd place, 2010

Australia at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.

The Australia national women's rugby union team, also known as the Wallaroos, are the national women's rugby union team of Australia. The Wallaroos have competed at the past five Women's Rugby World Cups in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010, and 2014.

Australian women have been playing rugby since the late 1930s, in regional areas of New South Wales. In 1992 the first National Women's Tournament as held in Newcastle, NSW. The following year the Australian Women's Rugby Union was established, and it was declared that the national women's team would be called the Wallaroos.

The Wallaroos played their first international in 1994, against New Zealand, also known as the Black Ferns. The match was played at North Sydney Oval, and NZ won the game 37 to 0. The team placed fifth at their first world cup appearance in 1998 in the Netherlands, they placed fifth at the 2002 event in Barcelona, Spain also.

In 2014, The Wallaroos played two Test matches in New Zealand against their Tasman rivals, the Black Ferns and Northern American outfit, Canada. Although losing both of these matches, The Wallaroos took this experience into the upcoming 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. Battling with an young side, the Wallaroos were narrowly defeated by USA in the fight for fifth place.

Results

Overall

Summary of matches (full internationals only) from 1994 up to and including the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup:

Opposition	First game	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	% Won
Canada	2014	1	0	0	1	0.00%
England	1998	4	0	0	4	0.00%
France	1998	4	1	0	3	25.00%
Ireland	1998	2	2	0	0	100.00%
New Zealand	1994	12	0	0	12	0.00%
Samoa	2009	1	1	0	0	100.00%
Scotland	1998	2	2	0	0	100.00%
South Africa	2006	3	3	0	0	100.00%
Spain	1998	1	0	0	1	0.00%
United States	1997	5	0	0	5	0.00%
Wales	2002	4	4	0	0	100.00%
Summary	1994	39	13	0	26	33.33%

Full internationals

See Women's international rugby for information about the status of international games and match numbering.

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	1994-09-02	Australia	0-37	New Zealand	Sydney	[1/8/1]

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	1995-07-22	New Zealand	64-0	Australia	Auckland	[9/2/2]

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	1996-08-31	Australia	5-28	New Zealand	Sydney	[3/10/3]

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	1997-08-02	Australia	24-28	United States	Brisbane	[4/24/1]

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	1997-08-16	New Zealand	44-0	Australia	Dunedin	[15/5/4]

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	1998-05-02 (WC)	Australia	21-0	Ireland	Amsterdam	[6/22/1]

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	1998-05-05 (WC)	Australia	8-10	France	Amsterdam	[7/46/1]

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	1998-05-09 (WC)	Australia	13-30	England	Amsterdam	[8/45/1]

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	1998-05-12 (WC)	Australia	17-15	Spain	Amsterdam	[9/18/1]

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	1998-05-16 (WC)	Australia	25-15	Scotland	Amsterdam	[10/33/1]

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	1998-08-29	Australia	3-27	New Zealand	Sydney	[11/21/5]

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	2001-05-26	Australia	19-41	England	T.G.Milner, Eastwood, Sydney	[12/74/2]

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	2001-06-02	Australia	5-15	England	Newcastle, NSW	[13/75/3]

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	2002-05-13 (WC)	Australia	30-0	Wales	Barcelona	[14/65/1]

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	2002-05-18 (WC)	Australia	3-36	New Zealand	Barcelona	[15/30/6]

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	2002-05-21 (WC)	Australia	0-18	United States	Barcelona	[16/43/2]

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	2002-05-25 (WC)	Australia	30-0	Scotland	Barcelona	[17/66/2]

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	2006-08-31 (WC)	Australia	68-12	South Africa	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[18/7/1]

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	2006-09-04 (WC)	Australia	10-24	France	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[19/108/2]

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	2006-09-08 (WC)	Australia	6-10	United States	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[20/57/3]

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	2006-09-12 (WC)	Australia	12-29	United States	St. Albert Rugby Park, St. Albert	[21/58/4]

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	2006-09-16 (WC)	Australia	18-14	Ireland	Ellerslie Rugby Park, Edmonton	[22/79/2]

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	2007-10-16	New Zealand	21-10	Australia	Cooks Gardens, Wanganui	[48/23/7]

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	2007-10-20	New Zealand	29-12	Australia	Wellington	[49/24/8]

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	2008-07-22	Australia	3-37	New Zealand	Canberra	[25/50/9]

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	2008-07-26	Australia	16-22	New Zealand	Sydney	[26/51/10]

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	2009-08-08 (WC)	Samoa	0-87	Australia	Samoa	[14/27/1]

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	2010-08-20 (WC)	Australia	26-12	Wales	Surrey Sports Park, Guildford	[28/132/2]

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	2010-08-24 (WC)	Australia	5-32	New Zealand	Surrey Sports Park, Guildford	[29/55/11]

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	2010-08-28 (WC)	Australia	62 – 0	South Africa	Surrey Sports Park, Guildford	[30/22/2]

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	2010-09-01 (WC)	England	15 – 0	Australia	Twickenham Stoop	[167/31/4]

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	2010-09-05 (WC)	France	8 – 22	Australia	Twickenham Stoop	[150/32/3]

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	2014-06-01	New Zealand	38-3	Australia	Rotorua International Stadium	[68/32/13]

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	2014-06-06	Australia	0-22	Canada	Tauranga, New Zealand	[33/101/1]

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	2014-08-01 (WC)	Australia	26–3	South Africa	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[35/36/3]

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	2014-08-05 (WC)	Australia	25–3	Wales	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 2	[36/159/3]

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	2014-08-09 (WC)	Australia	3–17	France	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[37/189/4]

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	2014-08-13 (WC)	Australia	20–23	United States	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[38/99/5]

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	2014-08-17 (WC)	Australia	30–3	Wales	CNR, Marcoussis Pitch 1	[39/162/4]

Current squad

Squad to 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup:^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.

Player Position Date of Birth (Age) Caps Club/province Louise Burrows Hooker 11 March 1978 Royals RU Margaret Watson Hooker 18 December 1986 University of Newcastle Danielle Meskell Prop 13 November 1973 Warringah Rats Shannon Parry Prop 27 October 1989 Redlands RUC Oneata Schwalger Prop 4 July 1985 Melbourne Unicorns Caroline Vakalahi Prop 4 January 1983 Australian Services RU Sharni Williams Prop 2 March 1988 Royals RU Rebecca Clough Lock 14 November 1988 Cottesloe RUC Alisha Hewett Lock 26 December 1985 Australian Services RU Brooke Saunders Lock 23 April 1985 Australian Services RU Chloe Butler Flanker 11 April 1987 Parramatta Two Blues Dalena Dennison Flanker 26 December 1985 Sunnybank Dragons Mollie Gray Flanker 29 September 1989 Australian Services RU Michelle Milward Flanker 10 January 1986 Queanbeyan Whites Liz Patu Flanker 15 July 1989 Western Bulldogs Rebecca Smyth Flanker 8 February 1985 Dubbo Rhinos Nita Maynard Scrum-half 7 July 1992 Parramatta Two Blues Tui Ormsby Scrum-half 20 January 1978 Warringah Rats Cheyenne Campbell Centre 10 September 1986 Redlands RUC Ashley Marsters Centre 2 November 1993 Melbourne Unicorns Cobie-Jane Morgan Centre 29 June 1989 Warringah Rats Natasha Haines Wing 23 December 1981 Cottesloe RUC Madeline Putz Wing 18 September 1989 Kalamunda RUC Tricia Brown Fullback 14 March 1979 University of Queensland Ashleigh Hewson Fullback 18 December 1979 Sydney University See also National Women's Rugby Championship References IRB (2014). "Australia Squad". Retrieved 26 August 2014. External links Official website Australia women's national rugby union team on Twitter Wallaroos chase World Cup glory List of results History of Australian Women's Rugby