Sevens: Australian Womens Team Announced For Dubai Opener
ARU Media Release -
Qantas Australian Women's Sevens Head Coach Tim Walsh is set to hand World Rugby Sevens World Series debuts to two players after naming an extended 13-strong party for the season opener in Dubai next week.
Forward Tanisha Stanton and utility Chloe Dalton will win their first World Series caps if named in Walsh's final squad after impressing team management throughout pre-season.
The pair have been named alongside skipper Sharni Williams, current World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year Emilee Cherry and electric winger Ellia Green.
Brooke Anderson (shoulder), Nicole Beck (shoulder) and Nikki Etheridge (knee) are unavailable through injury.
Women's Sevens Head Coach Tim Walsh said: "I have picked a hungry, exciting and young side that has just spent its first full pre-season together after the Sevens program was centralise