Veroeshka Grain

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Veroeshka Grain (born 11 December 1990) is a South African rugby union and rugby sevens player. [1] She qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2]

Career

She competed at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens, 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, [3] 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2023 WXV, [4] [5] [6] and 2023–24 SVNS. [7]

She is captain of the DHL Western Province Women. [8]

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