{"id":707304,"date":"2026-06-01T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707304\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:16:13","slug":"grace-hayden-to-join-fox-sports-nrl-coverage-as-presenter-takes-aussie-sports-scene-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707304\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Hayden to join Fox Sports\u2019 NRL coverage as presenter takes Aussie sports scene by storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian presenter, model and cricket personality Grace Hayden is eyeing up a switch into the world of NRL media.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old hinted on Sunday that becoming a sideline reporter for Fox League could be on the cards in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of Australian cricket legend Matthew Hayden was shadowing New Zealand sideline reporter Tiana Penitani-Gray during the Panthers\u2019 narrow win over the Warriors on Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p>Penitani-Gray has established a strong reputation at Fox League, and Hayden has her eye on joining her as part of the next generation of female rugby league reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Hayden, an avid Broncos fan, could be used as a sideline reporter for Broncos home games at Suncorp moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>It is just the latest step for Hayden, who continues to carve out a successful path in media after her breakout role as Channel Seven\u2019s Oaks Day Ambassador in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, she has continued to present at various horse racing events and in cricket leagues around the world, including the BBL, IPL and the Caribbean Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Hayden also\u00a0hosted a live show from this year\u2019s Australian Open called\u00a0Extraaa Serve, broadcast by Sony Sports Network, which holds exclusive rights to broadcast the tennis grand slam in India.<\/p>\n<p>Then in March she joined Fox Sports\u2019 coverage of the Shannons SpeedSeries.<\/p>\n<p>And now Hayden has her heart set on working in the NRL, as she posted several teasers on Instagram on Sunday night with a Fox League mic in hand and the caption \u2018learning the ropes\u2019 in another picture with Penitani-Gray. <\/p>\n<p>Hayden also told <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/nrl\/grace-hayden-shadows-penitani-gray-to-learn-tricks-of-the-trade-ahead-of-fox-league-media-gig\/news-story\/458a0ca29a868166e5bdb6fe86ae2d35\" title=\"www.codesports.com.au\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"458a0ca29a868166e5bdb6fe86ae2d35\" data-tgev-label=\"nrl\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Code Sports <\/a>that she has always been willing to try her hand at everything and would love the opportunity to join the Fox League team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI love all sports, always have. Growing up I tried my hand at everything,\u201d Hayden told Code Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy whole family loves rugby league and I\u2019m a big Broncos fan. This time of the year, when you\u2019ve got the Blues playing Queensland, it\u2019s such an exciting time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRugby league is going from strength to strength, and it is a sport I definitely want to sink my teeth into. It would be exciting to step into this new footy challenge with Fox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/grace-hayden-to-join-fox-sports-nrl-coverage-as-presenter-takes-aussie-sports-scene-by-storm\/news-story\/842b91653df88740b4805ae382cc9425\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Hayden to join Fox Sports\u2019 NRL coverage as presenter takes Aussie sports scene by storm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian presenter, model and cricket personality Grace Hayden is eyeing up a switch into the world of NRL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-707304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}