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Decades of service to rugby and the community have been recognised with former All Blacks captain Andy Leslie made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the King's Birthday Honours.
Decades of service to rugby and the community have been recognised with former All Blacks captain Andy Leslie made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the King's Birthday Honours.
All Whites great Grant Turner has died after a long battle with cancer
A product of Wainuiomata College, she grew up in a sporting family but never thought about becoming an Olympian. “I led a sheltered life and I did not know much existed outside Wainuiomata. The hockey community within Wainuiomata were like my other family, so it was not until I got into the reps at 11 and had to attend training in Newtown that I appreciated the big world outside the valley.” Rob Kitchin/Stuff Niniwa Roberts celebrates after scoring for the Black Sticks against China in 2008. When she was 17, she found herself in a New Zealand Under-18 trial with no comprehension of wha...