Brianna Ste-Marie

Brianna Ste-Marie is a Canadian submission grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, born on 30 August 1996 in Montreal, Quebec. A successful rugby player through her childhood and teenage years, she began training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu after starting university and chose it over rugby at nineteen. In colored belts she won the IBJJF World No-Gi, Pan American, European and American national titles and became a Combat Jiu-Jitsu champion and a Medusa champion. She was promoted to black belt in December 2021 after winning the ADCC East Coast Trials, was named Female Breakout Grappler of the Year by Jits magazine, and became the first woman to win both the East and West Coast ADCC trials in one cycle. At the 2022 ADCC World Championship she took silver in the under 60 kilogram division.