Ella Ryan was sitting in class when her phone lit up with a message from the national under 18s sevens rugby coach.
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She spent the next little while watching the seconds tick by on the clock until she finally had time to call him.
Ryan has made the Australian Junior sevens team to play at the world school championships in New Zealand next week.
"It was the biggest surprise ever," Ryan said.
"I was at school and he asked me to call him in my lunch break. I called him, and it was a massive surprise, I definitely wasn't expecting it."
Ryan joins Lily Murdoch in the Australian squad, while Janalee Conroy will play for the Australian Indigenous team, following a breakout tournament for the University of Canberra in the University Sevens Series this year.
It will set the 17-year-old sensation on course towards her dream of pulling on a gold jumper at the Olympic Games.
"Definitely. It would be crazy," Ryan said.
"Even the competition I'm going to is the next step up [from what I have been playing in], so the Olympics would be amazing.
"There's a lot of teams from all around the world [playing in this tournament], Canada, New Zealand, Fiji, I know it's going to be a really big competition."
Ryan's selection with another year of eligibility up her sleeve speaks volumes about the impact the university tournament has had on the game in Australia.
So too the value of joining Sharni Williams and Yasmin Meakes in Canberra's squad.
"They were amazing. Their experience and where they have played at the top level, bringing that down to us was really amazing," Ryan said.
"The [University] season was really good, and having the opportunity for younger girls to go through there was really good."