Australian Rugby Sevens player Maddison Levi juggles offers from Rugby Australia, NRLW and AFLW

Already the best female player on the planet in Rugby Sevens, Maddison Levi is in high demand from other football codes after lighting up at the Paris Olympics with her explosive try scoring feats.

Maddison Levi is in high demand from other codes. Picture: Christopher Pike/Getty Images

Spoiled for choices, Maddison Levi could one day find herself facing the ultimate test of her footy allegiances.

Already the best female player on the planet in Rugby Sevens, Levi is in high demand from other football codes after lighting up at the Paris Olympics with her explosive try-scoring feats.

A throwback to Israel Folau – but with a blonde ponytail and an even better strike rate – the 22-year-old has received offers from Rugby Australia, NRLW and AFLW.

A natural athlete blessed with lightning speed and a powerful physique, Levi would happily ply her trade in all the codes but the training, playing and travelling schedules make it impossible so she’s forced to pick and choose.

And that’s where things start to get tricky for the oldest daughter of Jason Levi, who played rugby league for Manly in the 1990s.

Multi talented, Levi’s already played AFLW, turning out for the Gold Coast Suns when she was still in her teens.

That door has not been closed but for now, her top priority is rugby sevens.

Levi was the International Rugby Players Women's Sevens Player of the Year in 2024.

Despite scoring a record 14 tries at the Paris Olympics, Levi came away empty-handed after the Australian women’s team slipped up in the semis and the bronze medal playoff.

She’s determined to collect an elusive Olympic medal at Los Angeles in 2028 and hasn’t ruled out the prospect of playing on until Brisbane 2032.

If she does, her try scoring tally by then could be off the charts.

In just her fourth season on the world series circuit, she’s scored 170 tries from 121 matches. Last season, when she was crowned female player of the year, she crossed for 69 tries, a record for men or women.

In the first tournament of the 2024-25 campaign, in Dubai, she dotted down 15 times, which is another record, then followed up with six more in Cape Town and is hungry for more.

“I still want to keep growing as an athlete,” she said. “I want to etch my name in history with Sevens.

“There’s so much that I still have to learn and so much that I still question and ask of myself.

“It’s crazy to think that at such a young age I can receive such a big award especially in a team sport. It’s pretty exciting but I also want to use that as motivation moving forward.”

Levi scored 69 tries this year.

Paris was a bittersweet experience though.

While her own stocks soared, her team’s inexplicable collapse in the knockout games left everyone deflated.

“There’s no sugar-coating it. It sucks at the end of the day because the team and the girls all put in so much hard work,” she said.

“We went on a holiday to Croatia after the Olympics just to switch off and not think about rugby. It was good but after a loss like that, I just wanted to get home so I cut my trip short.”

Now refreshed after a break, Levi’s already made her first tough call.

Managed by former dual international Mat Rogers, she’s been tempted by offers to join NRLW, now booming after the best ever women’s State of Origin series.

But she has put that ambition on hold for at least a year after signing up for 15s rugby in the hope she might get picked for the Wallaroos at the 2025 women’s Rugby World Cup.

She’s only just started training with the Queensland Reds so it’s still early days yet but she’s already been bitten by the bug.

“To hopefully be in a position to represent my country in not just one sport but two sports I think is pretty cool,” she said. “There’s a couple of other sevens girls coming in too so hopefully we can use that experience in the backline and just kind of play footy and find space.”

Sister act: Maddi and Teagan Levi.

But her biggest dilemma could be further down the road if she switches to NRLW and manages to get selected for State of Origin.

While she and her younger sister Teagan – who is also a star performer in the Australian sevens side – were both raised in Queensland but born in New South Wales.

An unstoppable sister act, the siblings would be a dream signing for either state but have already decided their preference.

“I’ll probably follow a lot of the male footsteps of playing union for Queensland and then playing State of Origin for New South Wales,” Levi said.

“For State of Origin, we’ve always gone for New South Wales just because we’re born there and our family goes for them. But that’s something that would be a few years down the track.

“And if we were to switch over to NRL I’m pretty sure I’d prefer her (Teagan) on my team than running against me, that’s for sure.”