Glencora Ralph

Glencora McGhie ( Ralph; born 8 August 1988) is an Australian water polo centre back/driver. She attended the Curtin University of Technology and is a dental therapist. She competes for the Fremantle Marlins in the Australian National Water Polo League, and was on sides that won the league championship in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. She has been a member of the Australia women's national water polo team on the junior and senior level. She has won gold medals at the 2011 Canada Cup and at the 2007 FINA Junior World Championships. She won silver medals at the 2010 FINA World League Super Finals and at the 2010 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup. She won a bronze medal at the 2009 FINA World League Super Finals. She was part of the Australian water polo team that won bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Personal life Glencora Ralph was born on 8 August 1988 in Geraldton, Western Australia. She has three siblings, one of whom, Mercedes Ralph, has represented Australia on an international tour. She took time off from competing in water polo internationally in 2007 to complete her studies. She now goes by the name Glencora McGhie, and has three children. She plays in the centre back/driver positions and prefers to wear cap number eight. Her team won the Australian Waterpolo League (AWL) championship in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2014. She was with the team in 2007 as an eighteen-year-old. During 2010, she was coached by Wendy Arancini, the mother of fellow senior national team member Zoe Arancini. In 2010, in the finals tournament, she was named to the league final's All Star team. Her team finished third, beating the Cronulla team 11–9 in the bronze medal match. , she is still part of the Fremantle Marlins line up.

Senior national team McGhie was a member of the Australia women's national water polo team. She was a member of the 2009 team that finished third at the FINA World League Super Finals in Kirishi, Russia and sixth at the FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy. Australia finished second in the tournament.

She played in the game where Australia beat Greece by a score of 11–7. She scored twice for the team during the third period. She competed Australia's 10–8 defeat of Russia. In the third quarter of the match, she scored two goals. At the 2011 Canada Cup, she scored s goal in the first period in the gold medal match against China that the Australian team ended up winning. She was named a member of the All Star team for the 2011 Canada Cup. In preparation for this tournament, she attended a team training camp in Perth, Western Australia. She competed in the Pan Pacific Championships in January 2012 for the Australian Stingers.

In 2012, she was part of the Stingers squad that competed in a five-game test against Great Britain at the AIS in late February 2012. This was the team's first matches against Great Britain's national team in six years. She was part of the Stingers team that competed at the 2012 London Olympics, winning bronze, and at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, where the Stingers won silver after being defeated by the host nation in the final, and the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia, where the Stingers came fourth after losing to the United States in the semifinal. The following year she was part of the team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where they came sixth.