Nadine Roos
Nadine Roos is a South African rugby union and sevens player.
Background
Roos was abandoned by her mother at a pre-school crèche in South Africa, her grandmother traveled in order to look after her. She was a hurdler and earned herself a bursary at the University of Pretoria where she was introduced to rugby.Roos made the 2021 CrossFit Games.
Rugby career
Roos made her international sevens debut in the Dubai tournament of the 2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.In 2018, Roos competed for South Africa in the Commonwealth Games. She later featured in the Rugby World Cup Sevens where they finished 14th overall.
Roos was selected for the South African women's sevens team again and played in the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens. She was named in South Africa's women's fifteens team for the 2021 Rugby World Cup.
In 2023, she was named in the Springbok women's sevens side for the Dubai Women's Sevens. She was a member of the South African side that competed at the Rugby sevens at the [2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|2024 Summer Olympics].
In September 2024, she was confirmed as part of South Africa's fifteens squad for the 2024 WXV 2 tournament.
On 9 August 2025, she was named in the Springbok women's squad to the Rugby World Cup in England.