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