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New Year Honours 2021: Sportspeople recognised in honours list 30 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 7 minutes to read NZ Herald Ms Deborah (Debbie) Ann Hockley Companion of the NZ Order of Merit for services to cricket Almost 20 years to the day of her greatest triumph in a long and successful cricket career, White Ferns great Debbie Hockley continues to strive in making the women's game as strong as ever in New Zealand. Hockley was first made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 1999 New Year honours before helping lead the White Ferns to victory in the 2000 World Cup final, the nation's only ...

Arch Jelley: 'Who would nominate a 98 year old' Felicity Reid © RNZ Arch Jelley: 'Who would nominate a 98 year old' Whether it is Olympians or card players asking for Arch Jelley's advice the coaching legend says he takes the same approach - with similar success. Jelley is made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his work as a coach and an administrator in athletics and bridge. "I wondered who on Earth could have nominated a 98-year-old coach, I haven't been coaching runners for a couple of years and now I just coach a few bridge players, but it's a very high ...

One-hundred-and-fifty-four people from a variety of sectors including education, sport, health, and science have been honoured. Arch Jelley's reaction to being made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) sums up the athletics super coach to a tee. “I was totally surprised and wondered who on earth could have nominated an 98-year-old coach who hasn’t been coaching runners for the past few years, but is now coaching bridge players,” the ever modest Jelley told Stuff. Athletics super coach Arch Jelley, left, with former Olympic runner John Walker in 2009. Jelley, a former ...