Player Evania Pelite

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Evania Pelite

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Evania Faaea "Vani" Pelite OAM (born 12 July 1995) is an Australian rugby union and rugby league player. She won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Pelite made her debut for the Australian women's national rugby sevens team at the age of 17 at the 2013 Amsterdam Women's Sevens. She also represented Australia in touch rugby.

Pelite was selected to represent Australia in rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She was a member of Australia's team at the 2016 Olympics, defeating New Zealand in the final to win the inaugural Olympic gold medal in the sport.

She also won a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Pelite was named in the Australia squad for the Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The team came second in the pool round but then lost to Fiji 14-12 in the quarterfinals.

Pelite was signed to the NZ Warriors in 2020 and made her debut in the Round 1 loss to the Brisbane Broncos.

Pelite signed to the Gold Coast Titans in 2021 and played the for them during the 2022-2024 seasons.

 

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Sevens star Green backflips on Broncos to join Warriors​

Sam Phillips​

Updated September 18, 2020 — 9.06amfirst published at 9.00am

Australian sevens flyer Ellia Green has turned her back on the Brisbane Broncos to join the New Zealand Warriors.

The Herald revealed last month Green and fellow sevens star Evania Pelite were set to join the Broncos but quarantine complications have caused a last-minute switch.

Ellia Green has turned her back on the Broncos to join the Warriors.Credit:Jeff Chiu

The pair did not want to spend two weeks in isolation north of the border and have decided to join the Warriors, who flew to Sydney earlier this month.

The Warriors women have followed the path of their men's team and will set up camp in Narrabeen after exiting quarantine this weekend.

Just five Warriors women boarded the flight to Sydney a fortnight ago, leaving the club scrambling for players. That makes the signing of Green and Pelite even more significant, as they will be crucial to keeping the Warriors competitive.

They will be coached by Jillaroos mentor Brad Donald, who has taken the job as head coach in a caretaker capacity. Donald will recruit the rest of the Warriors squad from the NSW Premiership and Queensland's Holcim Cup.

The club is set to reveal its star signings in the coming days.

Green and Pelite's sevens teammate - Charlotte Caslick - is expected to join the Roosters but is not among a provisional list of players provided to League Central.

The star playmaker earlier this year told the Herald she had ambitions to play for Queensland, too.

"If I do go across, hopefully I'm just good enough to put my hand up for selection but 100 per cent I would want to play [Origin]," Caslick said.

"It's the pinnacle of women's rugby league and we've all seen what a big game it's become in the last couple of years."

Sevens star Green backflips on Broncos to join Warriors

The Australian star was set to join Brisbane but had a late change of heart before the upcoming NRLW season.

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Australian rugby sevens stars Ellia Green and Evania Pelite join Kiwi Ferns and Jillaroos in Warriors NRLW squad​

September 18, 2020 •06:58pm

Australian rugby sevens stars’ Ellia Green and Evania Pelite are dramatic late inclusions in a “multi-national” Warriors NRLW squad.

The 2020 campaign has been ravaged by Covid-19 long before the season has started with only five players heading to Australia where the team will be based in 2020 because of trans-Tasman travel restrictions.

Brad Donald, who coached the Australian Jillaroos to victory over the Kiwi Ferns at the 2017 Women’s Rugby League World Cup, has named a squad of 21 women with four development players.

Donald, who replaced former NRL premiership winner Slade Griffin due to him remaining in Auckland because of Covid-19 restrictions, has secured four Jillaroos internationals in the squad the Warriors described as “multi-national”.

Green and Pelite are former Australian Olympic gold medal-winners with the rugby sevens team.

They had both been expected to turn out for the Brisbane Broncos but quarantine complications have caused a last-minute switch.

The pair did not want to spend two weeks in isolation in Queensland.

With all but five of the squad being Australian based players, Donald and the Warriors have done well to recruit players of the quality of Kirra Dibb, Karina Brown, Tazmin Gray and Simone Smith who have all played for the Jillaroos.
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Donald reserved special praise for the sacrifice of the New Zealand-based contingent of Madison Bartlett, Kanyon Paul, Hilda Peters, Crystal Tamaru and last year's captain Georgia Hale who have put their lives on hold to get to Australia.

The group exit quarantine tomorrow before the full squad assembles in Sydney on Sunday.


“It has been hectic pulling the squad together in such limited time but we have a strong group we can build here to do the Warriors proud," Donald said.

“Bringing in Ellia and Evania from their sevens rugby union background is going to add a special dimension and we’re able to draw on a good base of players who know what the NRLW premiership is all about.”

Also included in the squad is the Tokoroa-born Shontelle Stowers who has played rugby union for the Wallaroos and for the Australian sevens side as well as dabblingin rugby league for the Roosters and New South Wales.

Stowers has previously represented the Warriors at the NRL Nines in Perth back in February.

Ellia Green of Australia scores a try during the 2020 Sevens tournament in Hamilton.Hagen Hopkins / Getty Images

Many of the Australian players have been plucked from the New South Wales Premiership and Queensland's Holcim Cup.

The development players who will join the group are Abii Church, Tyla Gambell, Tahlia Hunter and Patricia Raikadroka.

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Pelite named Warriors' player of year​

Richard Becht
Sun 18 Oct 2020, 07:48 pm

In her first season in rugby league, 2016 Olympic Games sevens rugby union gold medallist Evania Pelite has been named the Warriors’ 2020 NRLW player of the year.

Three major player awards were made after the Warriors wound up their campaign with a resounding 22-10 win over St George Illawarra on Saturday.

As rugby league rookies, Pelite (25) and her Olympic sevens teammate Ellia Green were both impressive on the Warriors’ left edge with Pelite proving an absolute standout.

She scored a try on debut against Brisbane on October 3 and backed up with another try against the Sydney Roosters and a third in as many games against St George Illawarra.

Pelite also laid on a debut try for Green against the Broncos and another against the Dragons while making four line breaks, four offloads and no fewer than 22 tackle breaks (10 against St George Illawarra). She made 108 metres from eight runs against Brisbane, 165 from 13 against the Roosters and 142 from 10 against the Dragons. On defence she amassed a total of 39 tackles with only three missed.

Wollongong-born forward Stephanie Ball, still only 19, was singled out as the team’s NRLW rookie of the year; Ball was one of 11 players in the squad who made their NRLW debuts during the campaign.

And hooker Micheala Peck, who played in the second and third games, was named the club person of the year.

Pelite named Warriors' player of year

After just three games of rugby league, rugby union sevens star Evania Pelite has won the Warriors' 2020 NRL player of the year award.

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Pelite pens Titans extension to '27​

Titans.com.au
Tue 15 Oct 2024, 12:55 pm

Reigning NRLW player of the year Evania Pelite will stay a Titan for a further three years after inking a contract extension to remain on the Gold Coast until 2027.

The Origin and International representative has played a major role in all four seasons at the club since joining as a foundation player in 2021, with her most recent campaign her best to date after claiming all three top awards to recognise her standout performance.

Having built on her previous triumphs in touch football and winning Olympic gold in Rio as part of Australia’s Rugby 7s team, the 29-year-old now has her sights on achieving further success with the Titans upon re-committing.

"It means a lot to me to extend my time here. I love this club and I’ve had a lot of conversations with Murph about wanting to stay at the club long-term, so I’m really happy to signed until the end of 2027," Pelite said.

"I now really want to create history and be the first premiership-winning team on the Gold Coast. We came so close as grand finalists last year so it’s extremely motivating to know we have the potential to go one better.

"I also want to remain injury free which I did this past season. I feel that contributed to my performance and I really want to build on that in 2025 and reach my full potential as a fullback."

Uniquely, Pelite will also continue her role as consumer sales coordinator with the Titans, working as part of the club’s membership and ticketing team in extension to playing – a position she has held for the past two years.

"I’m really enjoying my role in the consumer team," she said.

"Being able to see both sides of the organisation has been eye-opening for me.

"I have such a high appreciation for the whole admin staff, but I’m just so grateful to Steve (Mitchell), Murph and Knelly (Chris Knell) for providing me the opportunity to work within the business so I can also develop my skills off the field and think about life after footy."

Pelite pens Titans extension to '27

Reigning NRLW player of the year Evania Pelite will stay a Titan for a further three years after inking a contract extension to remain on the Gold Coast until 2027.

www.titans.com.au