A team of champions doesn't always make a champion team. But Australia's Women's Sevens team has already made history by winning the Olympic Gold Medal in Rio in 2016. And they did so with players drawn from Australia's ever deepening multicultural fabric.
Coach Tim Walsh told SBS News that "It's multicultural Australia coming together to formulate what's been a good and winning formula."
On the team's most recent stop during the World Sevens Tour in Las Vegas, co-captain Shannon Parry felt right at home. No surprise really, her mother was born in neighbouring California and she enjoyed telling the rest of the team about her heritage.
"There's always something special about America, I love the west coast and that's where mum's from so that's a very special place."
Parry's father is from New Zealand. He met Shannon's mother when she visited New Zealand on a family holiday.
They kept in touch as pen-pals and have now been married now for 36 years.
When it comes to watching Shannon in action for the Sevens team, there's no danger of either her father or mother cheering for the USA or New Zealand.
"Australia's where home is, with mum and dad always cheering for me when I'm wearing the green and gold," she told SBS News.
While Australia goes into the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in April as one of the hot favourites, whatever happens, the team will be a part of history.
Men's Sevens was first played at the event in 1998 when David Campese was the star player and Mark Ella the team's coach.
Twenty years ago the prospect of a separate women's tournament was just a figment of the imagination. But now all that has changed and has given the Australian team a real boost - and an extra incentive to win gold on home soil.
"It's a great platform for us to I guess showcase the world that women can actually play and prove that we can match it with our male counterparts."
Australia will be up against Fiji, England and Wales in the group stage, while New Zealand will be favoured to top the other group which also includes South Africa, Kenya and Canada.
