KEARNS Matilda

Date of Birth: 2 Oct 2000

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Place of birth: SYDNEY, NSW

Birth Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Water Polo	Women AUS Australia	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tatsumi Water Polo Centre	Women's Preliminary Round - Group A #01 CAN Canada 5 AUS Australia 8	Finished
	Tatsumi Water Polo Centre	Women's Preliminary Round - Group A #08 AUS Australia 15 NED Netherlands 12	Finished
	Tatsumi Water Polo Centre	Women's Preliminary Round - Group A #14 ESP Spain 15 AUS Australia 9	Finished
	Tatsumi Water Polo Centre	Women's Preliminary Round - Group A #20 AUS Australia 14 RSA South Africa 1	Finished
	Tatsumi Water Polo Centre	Women's Quarterfinal #22 AUS Australia 8 ROC ROC 9	Finished
	Tatsumi Water Polo Centre	Women's Classification 5th-8th #26 AUS Australia 14 CAN Canada 12	Finished
	Tatsumi Water Polo Centre	Women's Classification 5th-6th #30 NED Netherlands 7 AUS Australia 14	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Junior Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
10	Women	2017	Volos, GRE

Tilly (LinkedIn profile, 01 Mar 2020)

Cooking, watching movies. (usctrojans.com, 24 May 2021)

Occupation:

Communications - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Languages spoken:

Predrag Mihailovic [national], SRB

Position style:

Centre forward (waterpoloaustralia.com.au, 01 Jan 2019)

Right (waterpoloaustralia.com.au, 01 Jan 2019)

Sporting relatives:

Her father Phil was the captain of Australia's rugby union team and won the World Cup in 1991 and 1999. (usctrojans.com, 24 May 2021)

She began playing at age 13. (dailytelegraph.com.au, 15 Jun 2017)

She started out as a swimmer and played a variety of sports growing up. "A team in the local junior competition was short on players and asked if I could help fill the numbers one week. I instantly loved it. I enjoyed all of my other sports but as soon as I tried water polo, they didn't matter and I was set!" (delfinasport.com, 17 Jun 2020)

Her father Phil Kearns. (rugbypass.com, 24 May 2021)

General Interest

General
INSPIRATION
She says her father Phil is her hero and contributed to her development as an athlete. "My dad is my hero. He's taught me the meaning of hard work, discipline and other things. He never sat me down and was like 'this is how you do it, this is how to be an athlete, do this and do that'. It was more watching such a good and motivational role model. I always looked up to him and wanted to be like him. I used to Google his name when I was young because the stories he'd tell us weren't enough." (rugbypass.com, 24 May 2021; theaustralian.com.au, 24 May 2021)

STUDY BREAK
In 2020 and 2021 she took a leave of absence from studying and playing at the University of Southern California to return to Australia to train with the national team in preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (usctrojans.com, 24 May 2021; nswis.com.au, 24 May 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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