Isadora Cerullo

Isadora "Izzy" Cerullo (born 24 March 1991) is a Brazilian-Americanrugby sevens player.

Cerullo was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Brazil in the last years of the country's military dictatorship which lasted from 1964 to 1985.^[1] She is one of four children and a triplet, with two brothers the same age and one older brother. She is a dual citizen of the United States and Brazil.^[2][3][4] Cerullo graduated in 2009 from William G. Enloe High School, where she was a member of the varsity soccer and cross-country teams. She went on to attend Columbia University to study medicine and was a member of the rugby team and a writer for the Columbia Daily Spectator, graduating in 2013.^[5][6] While a student at Columbia, she worked as an emergency medical technician.

Cerullo was recruited to play internationally while a member of Philadelphia Women's Rugby Football Club.^[7][8] Cerullo moved to São Paulo to play rugby professionally. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Brazil women's national rugby sevens team.^[9] She was selected for the Brazil women's rugby sevens team to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[10] Brazil's women's rugby team placed ninth at the 2016 Olympics.^[11]

Tras la final del rugby a siete femenino en los Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 2016, la pareja de Cerullo desde hacía dos años, Marjorie Yuri Enya, entró al campo del Estadio Deodoro y le pidió públicamente matrimonio. ^{[ 12 ] [ 13 ]} La propuesta fue ampliamente difundida en los medios, siendo Cerullo la primera atleta en aceptar una propuesta de matrimonio en los Juegos Olímpicos. ^{[ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ]} La pareja reside actualmente en São Paulo . ^{[ 18 ]} Cerullo es feminista. ^{[ 19 ]}

• Isadora Cerullo at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series (archived)
• Isadora Cerullo at Olympics.com
• Izzy Cerullo at Olympedia
• Isadora Cerullo at the Comitê Olímpico do Brasil (archived) (in Portuguese)
• Isadora Cerullo at the 2018 South American Games at the Wayback Machine(archived 15 December 2018)