Madison Ashby

Ashby grew up playing league with boys before switching to rugby union when she was about 12.^[1] A year later she was competing in an open women’s competition.^[1]

Ashby debuted for Australia at the USA Women's Sevens in Glendale, Colorado in 2019.^[2][3]

She was named in the Australia squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.^[4][5][6] The team came second in the pool round but then lost to Fiji 14–12 in the quarterfinals.^[7]

Ashby won a gold medal with the Australian sevens team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.^[8][9][10] She was also a member of the Australian side that won the Sevens Rugby World Cup held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022.^[11][12]

At the beginning of 2024, she re-signed with the Australian sevens program until the end of 2026.^[3] In May that year, she sustained a knee injury at the Singapore Sevens which hampered her chances of going to the Paris Olympics.^[13][14] She ended her 484-day absence when she returned to the pitch for the ACT Brumbies at the Next Gen Sevens.^[13]

Ashby was named as co-captain of the sevens side, together with Isabella Nasser for the 2025–26 SVNS season.^[15][16]