Birthplace: Lower Hutt, Wellington

Current home town(s): Waitara, New Plymouth

Time in Taranaki: 14 years

Occupation: At the moment a Netball Development Officer for Netball Taranaki

First year in netball: 2009, when my oldest daughter went to New Plymouth Girls High School and needed a Coach.

Role(s) in netball: okay let’s see… I have coached, I umpire, I have managed, I am an Umpire Coach/Assessor and a Course Facilitator for umpires.

Favourite team:  Hmmm, this is a toughy but I am going to go with the Silver Ferns

Favourite player:  All-time favourite player would have to be Katrina Grant, she is such a lovely person on and off the court

Favourite other sport: haha, has to be indoor 6 aside netball

Favourite colour:  all the colours of the rainbow, nah seriously I really like the red alligator lollies

Best sporting moment ever: I have two -  being able to go with NPGHS to Australia as a coach (few years ago now… 2013?) and going to South Africa this year with our indoor youth champs and being selected to umpire both Under 17’s mixed Grand Finals for 6 and 7 aside

Best place visited: Singapore

Best book read: Magician by Raymond E Feist

Best movie seen: ooooohhhh that’s a hard one…toss up between all the Die Hards and all the Lethal Weapons

Favourite TV show: Don’t think I have one, there is nothing I rush home to watch

First car you drove: White with a red racing stripe on the side Toyota Corolla

Favourite food: lamb rack with mashed kumara and loads of gravy, yum

Something most people won’t know about you: another tough question… I love to do things with my hands, I knit, crochet, cross stitch and like to work on motors whether it be cars or motorbikes.