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Jordan Gray-Matyas is an Olympic Rugby player and part of the U.S. Women’s Seven team. The team advanced into the quarterfinals and placed sixth at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games.
Jordan was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and played rugby at Centennial High School in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where she was raised. She also played for the Brigham Young University’s Women’s Rugby team from 2012 to 2016. She was a USA Rugby Collegiate All American each of those years. Matyas helped the Cougars advance to their first-ever national championship and earned First Team All-America honors in 2016.
She first made an appearance for a U.S. National Team in 2012, playing for the U20 squad, and has since competed in both the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup and the 2018 Women’s Sevens Rugby World Cup. This is the first Olympics for Matyas.
Jordan played with the U.S. 15s at the 2015 Super Series and made her World Series debut at the 2017 Japan Sevens.
She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is married to Ryan Matyas, who plays professional rugby.
