Glencora Ralph

Ralph's water polo club is Melville Water Polo Club[3] and she plays water polo for the Longmont Fremantle Marlins in the National Water Polo League.[9] Her team won the National Water Polo League championship in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007.[3] She was with the team in 2007 as an eighteen-year-old.[4][10] During 2010, she was coached by Wendy Arancini, the mother of fellow senior national team member Zoe Arancini.[11] In 2010, in the finals tournament, she was named to the league final's All Star team. Her team finished third, beating the Cronulla team 11–9 in the bronze medal match.[9] She currently plays for the team[12] with her sister Mercedes.[11]

Ralph has represented Australia on the junior national level. She was a member of the junior national side at the 2007 FINA U20 World Championships in Porto, Portugal that won a gold medal. She was one of only two Western Australians on the team.[3][4][13]

Ralph is a member of the Australia women's national water polo team.[1] She made her senior side debut in China in 2006 during the preliminary rounds of the FINA World League.[3] She competed in another tournament for the senior side in 2006 because Melissa Rippon and Taniele Gofers were injured.[14] She was a member of the 2009 team that finished third at the FINA World League Super Finals in Kirishi, Russia and sixth at the FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy.[3] In 2010, she was a member of the national team that competed in the preliminary rounds of the FINA World League in Japan from 21 to 23 May and in China from 26 to 28 May.[15] Australia finished second in the tournament.[3] In 2010, she was a member of the Stingers squad that competed at the FINA World Cup in Christchurch, New Zealand and earned a silver medal.[3][8][16]

She played in the game where Australia beat Greece by a score of 11–7. She scored twice for the team during the third period.[17][18] She competed Australia's 10–8 defeat of Russia. In the third quarter of the match, she scored two goals.[19] At the 2011 Canada Cup, she scored s goal in the first period in the gold medal match against China that the Australian team ended up winning. She was named a member of the All Star team for the 2011 Canada Cup.[1] In July 2011, she was a member of the Australian Stingers that competed in the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai as a field player.[20] In preparation for this tournament, she attended a team training camp in Perth, Western Australia.[21] She competed in the Pan Pacific Championships in January 2012 for the Australian Stingers.[22]

In February 2012, she was named to the final training squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2][23] She attended training camp that started on 20 February 2012 at the Australian Institute of Sport,[23][24][25] and was part of the Stingers squad that competed in a five-game test against Great Britain at the AIS in late February 2012. This was the team's first matches against Great Britain's national team in six years.[24] She was part of the Stingers team that competed at the 2012 London Olympics, winning bronze.[26] She was part of the team again at the 2016 Rio Olympics,[27][28][29] where they came sixth.[5][30]