Jillion Potter


Jillion Paige Potter is an American rugby union player. She was the captain of the 2016 USA Olympic women's rugby sevens team.

Childhood

Jillion Potter Austin, Texas to parents Scott Potter and Vikki Vranich. She has a twin brother Paul Thomas Potter and older sister Molly Potter Grosskopf.

Rugby career

Potter has played for over a decade including the 2013 Women’s Rugby Sevens World Cup, 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup and 2016 Olympics. She was a recipient of the inaugural Leadership Development Scholarship alongside Ada Milby, Samantha Feausi, Maha Zaoui, Rolande Boro, Dr. Araba "Roo" Chintoh, and Maria Thomas. She began her rugby career at the University of New Mexico.
In 2019, she was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women's-15s player-of-the-year award with Melodie Robinson, Danielle Waterman, Will Greenwood, Liza Burgess, Lynne Cantwell, Fiona Coghlan, Gaëlle Mignot, Stephen Jones, and Karl Te Nana.

Personal life

She met her wife Carol Fabrizio in 2011, through rugby. She loves flossing her teeth and has her wife carry dental floss with her everywhere. Potter was diagnosed with stage 3 Synovial Sarcoma cancer in 2014.. After more than a decade of surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy, and clinical trials, Jillion's cancer is now considered non-curative..