Soli Ropati (born 19 May 1997) is a

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

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player who plays as a wing defence. She has represented

internationally as part of the

Samoa national netball team The Samoa national netball team or ''Tifa Moana'' represent Samoa in international netball tests and competitions. The team are coached by Marcia Hardcastle and are co-captained by Opheira Harder-Karatau and Julianna Naoupu. As of 21 July 2019, Sa ...

. Ropati plays for City West Falcons in the

Victorian Netball League The Victorian Netball League is a state netball league featuring teams from Victoria, Australia. The league is organised by Netball Victoria. The modern league was first played for during the 2009 season. It replaced an earlier state league as th ...

. In 2017 she was captain of the Samoa under-21 netball team for the 2017 International Youth Netball Series, and then vice-captain for the

2017 Netball World Youth Cup The Netball World Youth Cup Gaborone 2017 was the eighth staging of the tournament previously (until 2013) known as the World Youth Netball Championships, the premier competition in international netball, contested every four years. The 2017 tou ...

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. In November 2017 she was selected for the

for its tour of

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. In 2019 she played in the

2019 Netball World Cup The 2019 Netball World Cup (also known as the 2019 Vitality Netball World Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the INF Netball World Cup. It was held from 12–21 July 2019 at the Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, England with match ...

. In 2022 she was selected for the PacificAus Sports Netball Series, and then for the Oceania World Cup Qualifiers. In 2022 she won the Ballarat Football Netball League's Sally McLean Medal.

References

Living people 1997 births Samoan netball players Australian netball players Victorian Netball League players 2019 Netball World Cup players Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-netball-bio-stub