Madison Ashby

Madison Ashby is an Australian rugby union player. She has represented Australia at sevens rugby at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games.

Early career

Ashby grew up playing league with boys before switching to rugby union when she was about 12. A year later she was competing in an open women’s competition.

International career

Ashby debuted for Australia at the USA Women's Sevens in Glendale, Colorado in 2019.
She was named in the Australia squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The team came second in the pool round but then lost to Fiji 14–12 in the quarterfinals.
Ashby won a gold medal with the Australian sevens team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She was also a member of the Australian side that won the Sevens Rugby World Cup held in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022.
At the beginning of 2024, she re-signed with the Australian sevens program until the end of 2026. In May that year, she sustained a knee injury at the Singapore Sevens which hampered her chances of going to the Paris Olympics. She ended her 484-day absence when she returned to the pitch for the ACT Brumbies at the Next Gen Sevens.
Ashby was named as co-captain of the sevens side, together with Isabella Nasser for the 2025–26 SVNS season.