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Gayle Broughton
Gayle Broughton (born 5 June 1996) is a New Zealand rugby league player, who plays at five-eighth for New Zealand Warriors in the NRLW.
She began her NRLW career at the Parramatta Eels in June 2022, where she played one season prior to joining the Brisbane Broncos in 2023.
She formerly played rugby union sevens for the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team, making her international debut for New Zealand in 2014. She called time on her rugby union career in March 2022, having amassed 315 points in 112 World Series matches. and has won every trophy on offer in the sevens game. Her accomplishments include six World Rugby Sevens series titles, Olympic Games gold and silver medals, Commonwealth Games gold and winning the Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Gayle Broughton was born in Hāwera, New Zealand, on 5 June 1996 to Karen Broughton and Alfred Hauparoa.
A naturally talented sportswoman with six brothers, Broughton was raised by her Broughton grandparents but had a troubled childhood, which led to her being expelled from high school at the age of 16.
In 2012, the New Zealand Rugby Union organized a "Go for Gold" campaign to identify talent with the potential to represent New Zealand in the sevens competition at the Rio Olympics. A promise of $10 by her grandmother Patsy Broughton if she would attend the trial being held in Taranaki was sufficient to tempt Broughton to meet Patsy the morning after a party and be driven by her to what she thought would be a "dumb trial". At the trial she was put through various fitness, rugby skill and character assessment activities. She discovered that she liked the game. Of the 800 who attended a trial, Broughton along with Michaela Blyde and Lauren Bayens, who were also from Taranaki, were among the 30 most promising who attended a training camp at Waiouru in mid-2012.
Accepted for the sevens programme, Broughton initially remained in Taranaki, having to get up at 6am to train in New Plymouth alongside Blyde. However, her lack of commitment and repeated failures to turn up for training sessions resulted in her receiving two warnings from the Taranaki Rugby Union, who were supervising her training on behalf of the Sevens coaching staff. At the second warning she was informed that if she did not commit to what was expected she would be dropped. Broughton admits that at the time she did not care about the opportunity she was being given until her grandmother took her aside and urged her not sabotage this opportunity to better herself. This talk prompted Broughton to take the next day’s bus out of Taranaki and relocate to the squad’s training hub at Mount Maunganui. Here she boarded with coach Sean Horan and his family, along with Kelly Brazier and Portia Woodman. It was her first time away from home and for the first three months she absolutely hated the experience.
At the age of 18, Broughton made her international debut for New Zealand in 2014 against Netherlands at the USA Women's Sevens. Later in the year, she was part of the team who won the World Cup in Moscow. She was part of the New Zealand's women's sevens squad that qualified for the Rio Olympics when they won the 2014–15 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.
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Gayle Broughton
Gayle Broughton (born 5 June 1996) is a New Zealand rugby league player, who plays at five-eighth for New Zealand Warriors in the NRLW.
She began her NRLW career at the Parramatta Eels in June 2022, where she played one season prior to joining the Brisbane Broncos in 2023.
She formerly played rugby union sevens for the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team, making her international debut for New Zealand in 2014. She called time on her rugby union career in March 2022, having amassed 315 points in 112 World Series matches. and has won every trophy on offer in the sevens game. Her accomplishments include six World Rugby Sevens series titles, Olympic Games gold and silver medals, Commonwealth Games gold and winning the Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Gayle Broughton was born in Hāwera, New Zealand, on 5 June 1996 to Karen Broughton and Alfred Hauparoa.
A naturally talented sportswoman with six brothers, Broughton was raised by her Broughton grandparents but had a troubled childhood, which led to her being expelled from high school at the age of 16.
In 2012, the New Zealand Rugby Union organized a "Go for Gold" campaign to identify talent with the potential to represent New Zealand in the sevens competition at the Rio Olympics. A promise of $10 by her grandmother Patsy Broughton if she would attend the trial being held in Taranaki was sufficient to tempt Broughton to meet Patsy the morning after a party and be driven by her to what she thought would be a "dumb trial". At the trial she was put through various fitness, rugby skill and character assessment activities. She discovered that she liked the game. Of the 800 who attended a trial, Broughton along with Michaela Blyde and Lauren Bayens, who were also from Taranaki, were among the 30 most promising who attended a training camp at Waiouru in mid-2012.
Accepted for the sevens programme, Broughton initially remained in Taranaki, having to get up at 6am to train in New Plymouth alongside Blyde. However, her lack of commitment and repeated failures to turn up for training sessions resulted in her receiving two warnings from the Taranaki Rugby Union, who were supervising her training on behalf of the Sevens coaching staff. At the second warning she was informed that if she did not commit to what was expected she would be dropped. Broughton admits that at the time she did not care about the opportunity she was being given until her grandmother took her aside and urged her not sabotage this opportunity to better herself. This talk prompted Broughton to take the next day’s bus out of Taranaki and relocate to the squad’s training hub at Mount Maunganui. Here she boarded with coach Sean Horan and his family, along with Kelly Brazier and Portia Woodman. It was her first time away from home and for the first three months she absolutely hated the experience.
At the age of 18, Broughton made her international debut for New Zealand in 2014 against Netherlands at the USA Women's Sevens. Later in the year, she was part of the team who won the World Cup in Moscow. She was part of the New Zealand's women's sevens squad that qualified for the Rio Olympics when they won the 2014–15 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.