Zoe Arancini

Personal life Arancini was born on 14 July 1991 in Perth, Western Australia.

She attended Kent Street Senior High School. She attends Curtin University where she is working on a degree in Agriculture and Environment majoring in Coastal Zone Management. She is tall, weighs and is right-handed. and the Australian Institute of Sport. She is a member of the Fremantle Marlins of the National Water Polo League from 2005 to the present. In her first season in the league, she scored 7 goals. During the 2007 and 2008 season, she scored 42 and 32 goals respectively. In the 2009 and 2010 seasons, she scored 64 goals and followed this up with 66 in the 2011 season. she has scored 63 goals in the season. Her mother is her coach on the Marlins. Between the junior and senior sides, she has represented Australia in over eighty games.

Junior national team Arancini has represented Australia on the junior national team. In July 2006, she was a member of the Youth Girls squad that competed in an international series in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2007, she was a member of the U16 national team. In January 2009, she was a member of the national team that competed at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival held in Sydney. She competed in the preliminary match against China where Australia won 17–10. She scored three goals in the match. She also scored three goals in a 19–17 preliminary round loss to Hungary. At the same tournament, she competed in the gold medal finals where her team took silver following a 10–9 loss to Hungary. She scored one goal in the finals match. She represented Australia at the 2009 FINA Junior World Championships, where she was the team captain. Her team finished seventh in the tournament. She was a member of the 2010 Stingers squad that competed at the FINA World Cup in Christchurch, New Zealand. In the team's finals 10–8 victory over the United States, she scored a goal. In late 2010, she had her 50th cap with the national team. She competed in the Pan Pacific Championships in January 2012 for the Australian Barbarians. 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.

Arancini was a member of the Australian Stingrays squad that competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. By finishing second in their pool, the Aussie Stingers went through to the quarterfinals. They were beaten 8–9 by Russia and therefore did not compete for an Olympic medal.

Recognition In 2009, Arancini was named the Australian Junior Women's Player of the Year.