RUGBY: Sunshine Coast's Emma Sykes has been named in the Australian women's team for the inaugural women's leg of the Sydney 7s next month.

The team heads to round two of the HSBC Sevens World Series after finishing second in the opening event at Dubai in December, when Sykes made her first appearance on the big stage.

She performed well there and is now primed for another strong showing.

The Sydney event will be the first time Australia gets to compete on home soil in a world rugby event, following their Olympic gold-medal winning performance in Brazil in August.

"It's very exciting to play on home soil, to have round two of the World Series at home,” coach Tim Walsh said in a team press release.

"We've prepared well and the girls are going to be pumped from game one.”

Australia will face Brazil, Ireland and Fiji in Pool B.

"Every game we play, we take our opposition very seriously,” he said.

"We're really looking forward to playing Fiji in that last game. We seem to play them a lot and they are a great team to play against.

"To finish and cap off Friday against the Flying Fijians will be a great occasion.”