Rowena Webster

Rowena Evelyn Webster (born 27 December 1987), known as Rowie Webster, is an Australian water polo centre back and a three-time Olympian. She is one of three Australian players to play more than 300 international games for Australia. She has represented Australia as a member of Australia women's national water polo team on both the junior and senior level. Webster is a London Olympic bronze medalist, Junior World Champion, and was rated in the top 3 players in the world two years in a row (2013, 2014). Webster was the Australian Women's Water Polo Captain at the 2020 Olympics.

Personal life Webster was born on 27 December 1987 in Melbourne, Victoria. Her grandfather was Warwick Wathen, who competed in the Davis Cup as a junior. Her mother is a physiotherapist, her father a builder. Webster is the youngest of four children and her oldest sister Larissa Webster also played water polo for Australia. She has five tattoos and loves how she can express herself through body image and art.

Webster attended Korowa Anglican Girls' School and used to play Australian rules football as a youngster. She has always been extremely competitive in basketball and surf life saving, and iub 2012 was the vice-captain of the National women's water polo team. She took up surf lifesaving as a seven-year-old at the Anglesea Surf life saving club. She is currently on scholarship at the Victorian Institute of Sport. She completed a Bachelor of physical education in secondary teaching, and is living in Balwyn North, Victoria.

Water polo The third of a five-game test series against the Great Britain women's national water polo team on 25 February 2012. Australia won 15–6. On the far left is Bronwen Knox, then Zoe Arancini, Melissa Rippon, Hannah Buckling, Rowena Webster. Webster started playing water polo as a ten-year-old, In 2010 and 2011, she had a water polo scholarship from the Victorian Institute of Sport. She prefers to wear cap number seven and is a utility player She also played for the team in 2005, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

University water polo Webster attended Arizona State in Tempe, Arizona on a water polo scholarship when she was an eighteen-year-old but only spent a year with the team.

Professional water polo As a nineteen-year-old, Webster played for a professional team in Greece