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I didn't start net till I was 10. And
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then I started being pulled through into
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rep teams. Like I was, you know, 6 foot
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at 10 now. So I've been 6'2, which I am
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now, uh, since I was 12. Canary under 20
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runs, I was 15. The Canterbury senior
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team, I was 16 and then New Zealand at
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17. So it was like a really fast
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trajectory through. When I first arrived
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in the Silver Ferns, we were touted as
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each time we went out in the tour
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against Australia, we were the worst
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Silver Ferns team that um you know had
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taken the court against Australia and we
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were losing by 30 goals each test match,
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which is which is crushing.
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>> You make the Silver Ferns when you're 17
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and you're still at school. Actually,
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I've got a photo here. That's um
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>> Yeah, that's
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>> Can we just talk about this? how
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>> I did not know that these photos were
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going to stay with us for the next 37
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years or whatever.
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>> By the end of my career, I was pretty
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much strapped up um two ankles, two
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knees. Um and that and and that's kind
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of the trigger for um you know when it
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was time to retire.
