Sarah Hirini
Sarah Hirini is a New Zealand women's rugby union player. She plays for the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team, and captained the Manawatu Sevens side that took out the 2013 National Women's Sevens title in Queenstown. She was named in the squad for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup.
She is studying for a degree in Māori studies. Of Māori descent, Goss affiliates to the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi.
In 2013, she received the Massey University Manawatu campus sportswoman of-the-year award.
In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hirini was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rugby.
In 2019, Hirini was nominated, for the fourth time in six years, as the World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year. She also was the first woman to play 200 matches in the global circuit.
