Stacey Waaka
Waaka at the 2017 World Cup celebration in Wellington. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Stacey Jamie Aroha Kirsten Waaka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 3 November 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Papakura, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (11 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: As of 17 December 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stacey Jamie Aroha Kirsten Waaka (born 3 November 1995) is a New Zealand rugby union and rugby league player. She played fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team and New Zealand Women's National Rugby Union team. Waaka was a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team which won gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She was also a member of the New Zealand fifteen-a-side team which won the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup and the 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup. Following the Paris Olympics she spent the Sevens off-season playing rugby league during an injury-disrupted 2024 season with the Brisbane Broncos.