Ada Milby

Early life and education Milby was born to an American father and a Filipino mother in Troy in Ohio in the United States. Ada Milby has a younger brother Sam Milby who would later be an actor in the Philippines. She grew up in Tipp City in Ohio where she attended high school. She only stayed in the team for a year due to gender discrimination she encountered from her own male teammates. Prior to playing American football she was a competitive figure skater for 12 years. In Iraq, she served in a 500-personnel battalion, with only 25 women. She also captained the sevens side. She has also competed at the Southeast Asian Games having competed at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games where she helped the team secure a bronze medal, the 2017 Southeast Asian Games., and reclaimed the podium in the 2019 Southeast Asia Games with a silver medal finish.

Rugby administration Milby is involved with the Philippine Rugby Football Union having served as its Secretary General. In 2013, she was the head of development for grassroots rugby in the country, launching the "Get Into Rugby" program in the same year. This led to her nomination as a member of the Philippine Rugby board of directors. She then became a member of the Asia Rugby Executive Committee Asia Rugby was the first one to respond to the move of the global body naming Milby as the first woman member of the World Rugby Council in mid-November 2017. In 2020, she was named to Rugby World Magazine's list of Top 50 Most Influential People in Rugby.

Milby was elected as the President of the Philippine Rugby Football Union on December 15, 2020, succeeding Rick Santos.

Personal life As of 2017, Milby has two daughters with the younger born in 2015.