Haylea Petrie

Haylea Petrie, born on 5 July 1969 in Wee Waa, New South Wales, is an Australian softball player who won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. A right-handed outfielder and a dangerous batter, she was player number 144 for Australia and played 221 games for the national team between 1986 and 2000. In 1998 she led the Australian side to one of its biggest wins in a decade, a grand slam home run against the defending world champions from the United States. She was named most valuable player of the National Fastpitch Softball League several times in the 1990s, represented Queensland and New South Wales, and was inducted into the Softball Australia Hall of Fame in 2005 and the International Softball Federation Hall of Fame in 2013.