After a standout debut season with the Gold Coast Titans in the NRLW, Teagan Levi is back in the Aussie Sevens squad ahead of the start of the 2026/27 Sevens season in Dubai.
Having not played it growing up and only watching it as a child, Levi said the Sevens game and Rugby League are “very different games but are both very exciting.”
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Levi achieved some of the highest accolades in the NRLW in her first year playing the sport, awarded the RLPA Players Rookie of the Year, Dally M Five-Eighth of the year and the Titans NRLW Player of the Year.
It has put her in a positive mindset ahead of the new Sevens season.
“If you actually put the hard work in, you can be rewarded. It doesn't matter if you haven't played it before, as long as you're willing to put your all into it and be a sponge out there,” Levi said.
“I think that’s helped me come back to sevens with a fresh mindset and ready to go for the season coming.”
Levi reflected on the upcoming Sevens season which will see some new faces as well as being back playing with her sister Maddison Levi. “The feeling is really exciting, there's a good vibe and system this year,” Levi said.
The gained experience of rugby league under Levi’s belt has primed her towards her sixth season on the Sevens circuit, with one of her new developed strengths being the physicality of the contest.
“They’ve obviously got more people on the field, bigger bodies, so that's something I'll be taking back into sevens,” Levi said.
“I found out real quick that there wasn't as much space as Sevens and that there's girls that are coming hard at you from every angle.”
Playing five-eighth for the Titans, Levi pointed to the differences in fitness, saying that the two sports “are very different if the ball is not on your side and it's a bit easier to have a rest.”
“There's not as much space on the field, so you have to make more space, whereas in sevens there's no time to rest,” she notes.
As well as the return of Levi, is the appointment of new Women’s Head Coach Reg Tayler, with close to half the squad coming through the pathways under the former assistant.
“Reg is going to be a great asset to the team,” Levi said. “A group of us had been coached by Reg at the QAS 7s since we were about 15 years old.”
In addition to the upcoming Rugby Sevens season, sights are also set on Olympic qualification and the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, with the four highest-ranked eligible women's teams from the HSBC SVNS World Championship standings (excluding the host nation) earning early qualification.
“It starts now. It's two years out now. There will be an Olympic qualifier at the end of this year, and we want to be that top team,” Levi said.
After a fourth place finish in the 2024 Paris Olympics, Levi and the Aussie Sevens team look to use the hurt and emotion to go even further.
“Paris still is a tough one to talk about. I think we need to remember what that feeling was and use that to strive to be better and make sure that we never feel that feeling again,” Levi said.
