Alicia Lucas (nee Quirk)

Commentator & Ex Rugby 7's

Alicia Lucas nee Quirk (OAM) was born and raised in Wagga Wagga, NSW and was part of the 2016 Gold Medal-winning Australian Rugby 7’s team. She played a wide variety of sports up until her teenage years when she narrowed her focus to Touch Football after being selected for her first Australian team in 2009. Alicia competed at the Opens level a year later and was part of the successful Australian Women’s Touch Football World Cup Team in 2011.

Her Rugby career stemmed from a nationwide recruitment for the sports Olympic campaign where she was invited to play rugby via a letter in the mail in 2011. She debuted for the Australian Women’s 7s in 2012.

In 2014 she became one of the first Australian Women’s 7’s players to be professionally contracted by the Australian Rugby Union and featured regularly on the Women Sevens World Series. She was named player of the tournament in the Dubai leg of the 2014 World Series. At the 2016 Olympics where Alicia won a Gold Medal, she played every single minute of the whole tournament and was nominated for the 2016 Shawn Mackay Australian Rugby Union Player of the Year Award.

Alicia was a member of the Silver Medal-winning team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. She was also

a part of the Bronze Medal winning team at the Sevens World Cup that was held in San Francisco in July that year. Despite a disrupted season with injury, the 2017/2018 season saw Alicia bring home Australia’s second-ever World Series Title after tournament wins in Dubai and Sydney.

At the same time as pursuing her rugby career, Alicia completed her Physiotherapy degree, graduating in December 2016. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in January 2017 for her outstanding sporting achievement as well as being inducted into the Wagga Wagga Sporting Hall of Fame.

After re-joining the Australian Women’s 7’s program in March 2022, Alicia went on to retire from Rugby in September 2022. These days she spends her time with her husband Matt and daughters Matilda and Daisy, continuing her professional development with her physiotherapy career including branching into clinical pilates along with assisting in coaching roles all over the world including for Japan Men’s 7’s National Team.

Alicia will be joining the expert panel for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games for Stan Sport.