The talented sisters starring at elite level in multiple sports

Rae and Page McGregor's story is remarkable. Their mother Glenys had given up on having children at all, but after migrating to Australia in 1997 she fell pregnant. Twenty years later, and the sisters are starring at the elite level in Football, Rugby Sevens and Rugby League.

To be talented at one sport is good.  But to turn your hand at will to several different sports and make a success at the elite level is unusual.

Page McGregor won Rugby Sevens Gold for Australia at the Youth Commonwealth Games last month. 

Her elder sister Rae, did likewise two years earlier and has also won gold in the sport for Australia at Olympics youth level.

Whatever they turn their hands to turns to gold.  Their mother Glenys went through several miscarriages back home in New Zealand before the family moved to Australia in 1997.

Rae arrived that same year. "She's my miracle child," Glenys told SBS World News.

The pair have won Sevens gold for Australia and Youth Olympic and Youth Commonwealth Games level. Source: SBS

The sisters are grateful for all the support their parents have given them to enable the pair to achieve so much for various teams. 

Without it they say it couldn't have happened.  Rae says: "We're a very close family,  we do most things together."

The McGregor family are committed to helping and supporting each other. [l to r: Page, Travis, Glenys and Rae] Source: SBS

Page and Rae will play for the Macquarie University Rays in the inaugural Women's National University Sevens Series later this month. 

But although Page has her heart set on impressing and qualifying for the Commonwealth Games team on the Gold Coast next April, Rae wants to play for New Zealand in November's Rugby League World Cup. 

"I feel like I at least deserve to be looked at and I feel like I haven't been given that opportunity by Australia,"  she told SBS World News.

And if that means playing for the country of her mother's birth,  Australia's loss could be New Zealand's gain.