Victoria Hayward

She attended the University of Washington for four years from 2011 to 2014 and played outfield for the Washington Huskies softball program. She was a 2014 All-American and a four-time All-Pac-12 selection. With the University of Washington, she won four NCAA Regional Championships and advanced to the 2013 Women's College World Series.[2]

Hayward has played with the Senior National team since 2009, when she was 16. She is the youngest player to appear for the Canadian national team. She has won five medals competing for Canada - two Silver at the Pan American Games and three Bronze medals at the World Championships. She was named to the 2015 Pan American Games team that won Gold, but was unable to compete due to injury.[3]

Hayward was the 19th overall selection in the 2014 National Pro Fastpitch Draft by the Pennsylvania Rebellion, who she played with in 2015 and 2016.[4] She joined the Canadian Wild in 2019.

After finishing her college softball career, she became a coach. She joined Louisiana State University in 2015, where she helped guide the team to a third-place finish at the Women's College World Series. In 2016 and 2017, she was an assistant coach for the University of Massachusetts helping them to back-to-back winning seasons in 2016 and 2017. In 2018, she was an assistant coach at the University of Maryland for the 2018 season. Presently, Hayward is the Director of Operations for the University of Central Florida softball team.[5]

Born in Toronto, she grew up in Mountain View, California and moved to Seattle, Washington, in 2010. She went to Mountain View High School (MVHS). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Political Science from the University of Washington and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts.