Rowena Webster is one of three Australian players to play more than 300 international games for Australia.
34 Facts About Rowena Webster
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Rowena Webster has represented Australia as a member of Australia women's national water polo team on both the junior and senior level.
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Rowena Webster was the Australian Women's Water Polo Captain at the 2020 Olympics.
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Rowena Webster was born on 27 December 1987 in Melbourne, Victoria.
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Rowena Webster's grandfather was Warwick Wathen, who competed in the Davis Cup as a junior.
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Rowena Webster's mother is a physiotherapist, her father a builder.
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Rowena Webster is the youngest of four children and her oldest sister Larissa Rowena Webster played water polo for Australia.
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Rowena Webster has five tattoos and loves how she can express herself through body image and art.
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Rowena Webster attended Korowa Anglican Girls' School and used to play Australian rules football as a youngster.
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Rowena Webster 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.
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Rowena Webster took up surf lifesaving as a seven-year-old at the Anglesea Surf life saving club.
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Rowena Webster studied for her Victorian Certificate of Education in 2005.
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Rowena Webster spent a year studying at Arizona State University on scholarship where she studied physical education secondary teaching and completed her degree in Melbourne at Deakin University.
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Rowena Webster is currently on scholarship at the Victorian Institute of Sport.
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Rowena Webster completed a Bachelor of physical education in secondary teaching, and is living in Balwyn North, Victoria.
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Rowena Webster's Stingers teammates say she is a fierce competitor and loves to win.
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Rowena Webster has a huge Nike shoe collection and adds to it on every international tour.
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Rowena Webster started playing water polo as a ten-year-old, and more seriously as a twelve-year-old in Melbourne, Australia acting as a fill-in for her older sister's team at that age.
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Rowena Webster prefers to wear cap number seven and is a utility player who can be found in the centre back position.
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Rowena Webster has scars on her back from opposition players biting her there during games.
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Rowena Webster feels a need to wear a mouth guard during every game she plays.
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Rowena Webster first represented the state of Victoria in 2000.
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Rowena Webster represented the state in 2005 at the National Schoolgirls Water Polo Competition held Noosa, Queensland.
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Rowena Webster currently plays for the Balmain Water Polo Club National Team and captains the side.
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Rowena Webster played for the Victorian Tigers of the National Water Polo League in 2004 during the team's first year of existence.
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Rowena Webster played for the team in 2005,2007,2009,2010,2011 and 2012.
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Rowena 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.
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Rowena Webster left Greece to concentrate on making Australia's national team for the Olympics.
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Rowena Webster is the captain and a member of the Australia women's national water polo team and has played over 300 games for Australia.
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Rowena Webster was a member of the London Olympic Team that won bronze in 2012 and has been an integral part of the 2013 World Championships team that won silver and the 2014 World Cup team that won silver.
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Rowena Webster was the highest goal scorer for Team Australia at the 2012 London Olympics.
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Rowena Webster holds the Australian record for most goals in a National League Season.
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Rowena Webster has played over 250 games in the league.
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Rowena Webster was the captain of the Australian Stingrays squad that competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.