Dietrich Roache

Though his father and uncle played rugby for the former Parramatta Two Blues, Roache did not start playing club rugby until 2018.^[6] This came after getting a free ticket to the Sydney Sevens in 2018.^[5] He gained a reputation as a fast player, being able to run a time of 4.59 seconds over 40 metres. This matched the time of Trae Williams who missed selection for the Australian Olympic team for the 2020 Olympic Games as a result.^[9] He was selected for the New South Wales Waratahs' Junior under-18 team and part of their development programme.^[10] In 2019, he played for Australia at the World Rugby School Sevens and a year later was signed by Rugby Australia to their sevens programme.^[11]

In 2021, when he was selected for the Australia national rugby sevens team for their 2020 Olympics rugby sevens tournament,^[5] he was the youngest member of the team and was given responsibility for taking care of the team's mascot Wally.^[12] This followed on from Henry Hutchison at the 2016 Summer Olympics where Wally was kidnapped by players from the Sweden women's national football team for 24 hours.^[6]

Roache competed for Australia at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.^[13][14] In 2024, He was named in the Australian sevens team for the Summer Olympics in Paris.^[15][16][17]

• Dietrich Roache at AU7s
• Dietrich Roache at the World Rugby Men's Sevens Series (archived)
• Dietrich Roache at the Australian Olympic Committee
• Dietrich Roache at Commonwealth Games Australia
• Dietrich Peter Roache at Olympics.com
• Dietrich Roache at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
• Dietrich Roache on Instagram