Tiana Penitani

Tiana Penitani-Gray (born 12 January 1996) is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NRL Women's Premiership and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NSWRL Women's Premiership.

Primarily a , she is an Australia and New South Wales representative. She previously represented Australia in rugby sevens.

Background Born in Canberra, Penitani played junior rugby league for La Perouse United before switching to rugby union and Oztag. She is of Tongan descent.

In 2019, Penitani was on the award voting panels for both the World Rugby Men's Sevens Player of the Year and the World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year.

Rugby league In 2019, Penitani returned to rugby league, joining the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Women NSWRL Women's Premiership team. In May 2019, she represented NSW City at the Women's National Championships.

On 14 June 2019, she signed with the St. George Illawarra Dragons Women NRL Women's Premiership team.

On 21 June 2019, she made her debut for New South Wales, starting at in a 14–4 win over Queensland.

In Round 1 of the 2019 NRL Women's season, Penitani made her debut for the Dragons in a 4–14 loss to the Brisbane Broncos. On 6 October 2019, she started at in the Dragons' 6–30 Grand Final loss to the Broncos.

In October 2019, she represented Australia at the 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s, scoring five tries and finishing as the tournament's top try scorer. On 25 October 2019, she made her Test debut for Australia in a 28–8 win over New Zealand.

Tiana was signed with the NRLW Cronulla Sharks inaugural team for 2023 and is the captain of the side.