Rebecca Haynes (born 24 October 1984) is a basketball player from Australia.

Personal

Haynes was born on 24 October 1984, and has two siblings, a brother and a sister. She is tall. During the 2010/2011 basketball season, she attended the

Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove. The univ ...

where she worked towards a degree in accounting. Prior to that, she had attended

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and

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Basketball

In basketball, she plays two different positions, guard and forward. She first played competitive basketball for the Southern Districts Spartans based in

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. She joined the WNBL for the 2008/2009 season as a member of the Logan Thunder and then continued playing for them in the 2009/2010 season. In her first season, she had an average of 2.8 points and 1.3 rebounds a game in 15 games played. Her second season showed improved numbers, where she had an average of 3.4 points per game and 2.9 rebounds per game while playing in 20 games. She switched teams and played for the

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for the 2010/2011 season. In an October 2010 game against the

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, she scored 8 points in the second quarter in a game that the Capitals came from behind to win, a win that her coach

Carrie Graf Carrie Ann Graf (born 23 June 1967) is an Australian basketball coach. She competed in the WNBL as a player starting during 1983–1989, after which she attended RMIT. Graf has coached teams in the WNBL, WNBA and Australia's national team, an ...

gave Haynes significant credit for. At the end of the season, she did off contract and not on the roster to play for the Capitals during the 2011/2012 season. In 2011, Haynes was a member of the Gladstone team in the

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. In a game that season, she came in second in scoring with 42 points, 8 points behind Capitals teammate

Jessica Bibby Jessica Bibby (born 23 August 1979) is an Australian sportswoman. She has played over 200 games in the WNBL and won several WNBL Championships. She has played for the Dandenong Rangers and Canberra Capitals. She was drafted by the WNBA's N ...

who scored 50. Haynes has played basketball for three university teams in the United States:

and

. While attending the Community College of Rhode Island, she was named the student athlete of the year.

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Rebecca Haynes
WNBL {{DEFAULTSORT:Haynes, Rebecca 1984 births Living people Australian women's basketball players Canberra Capitals players Logan Thunder players Jacksonville State Gamecocks women's basketball players Queensland University of Technology alumni Forwards (basketball) Guards (basketball) Place of birth missing (living people)