Olivia Johanna Mary Apps (born 1 December 1998) is a Canadian rugby player. She competes for Canada internationally in both union and sevens, serving as captain of the sevens side, and professionally for Saracens in Premiership Women's Rugby. Apps has played for Canada at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the 2024 Summer Olympics, where she won a silver medal, and at the 2025 Rugby World Cup.
Rugby career Apps was part of Canada's 2018 Commonwealth Games team that finished in fourth place.
In June 2021, Apps was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team as an alternate. In September 2021, following the Olympics, she was named Captain of the Canada Women's Sevens national rugby team.
Apps competed for Canada at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. They placed sixth overall after losing to Fiji in the fifth place final.
On 8 July 2023, she made her test debut for Canada's fifteens team against New Zealand at Ottawa. Her side went down 52–21. On 23 August 2023, she captained the Canadian Women 7s in the Starlight Stadium tournament when they qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Apps was chosen as captain for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. The team won a silver medal, coming from 0–12 behind to defeat Australia 21–12 in the semi-finals, before losing the final to New Zealand. In November 2024, Apps was named to the World Rugby Women's Sevens Dream Team of the Year.
She was selected in Canada's squad for the 2025 Pacific Four Series. In July 2025 she was named to Canada's World Cup squad. Canada advanced to the tournament finals on September 27, 2025 against England, winning silver before a record-size crowd of 82,000 fans in Allianz Stadium, Twickenham.
Shortly after the 2025 Word Cup ended, Apps signed with Saracens and joined fellow Canadians Sophie de Goede, Alysha Corrigan, Gabby Senft, Paige Farries, Julia Omokhuale, and Laetitia Royer. She would go on to help Saracens to a PWR playoff berth, before being named PWR Player of the Season.
Personal life Apps is the daughter of Alfred Apps and Danielle French. She was raised in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, and was introduced to rugby in Grade 10 in Lindsay.
At seven years old, she was diagnosed with alopecia universalis. She began competitive rugby at age 15.
References
External links Olivia Apps at Rugby Canada
Olivia Apps at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link)