Hayley Verbunt
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| Born | 18 December 2002 Malvern, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Women's eight (W8+) | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Mercantile Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | John Keogh, Hally Champan | ||||||||||||||
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Hayley Verbunt (born 18 December 2002) is an Australian representative rowing coxswain. She is a national senior and underage champion and in 2023 made the Australian senior squad winning a bronze medal in the Australian women's coxed eight at the 2023 World Rowing Championships.[1]
Verbunt attended Firbank Girls' Grammar School in Melbourne where she took up rowing. Her senior club rowing has been from Melbourne's Mercantile Rowing Club.
She first made Victorian state selection in the 2021 women's youth eight which competed for the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships[2] and in 2022 she coxed the Victorian men's youth eight at the Interstate Regatta.[3] In 2023 she was selected in the Victorian women's senior eight which won the Queen's Cup.
In Mercantile colours she won the 2021 U21 Australian championship title in a women's coxed four[4] and in 2022 she coxed an U23 men's 8+ at the Australian Rowing Championships.[5] In 2022 she raced at the Henley Royal Regatta in the Wargrave Cup in a Mercantile women's club 8+.[6]
