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Karl Te Nana
Karl Solomon Te Nana (born 15 July 1975) is a New Zealand former rugby union and rugby league footballer, and currently works in broadcasting as a rugby commentator. A professional rugby union player, Te Nana won a gold medal as part of the New Zealand rugby sevens national team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He scored 113 tries for the New Zealand rugby sevens team. He was the leading try scorer during the 2000–01 Sevens Series with 42 tries. He was a member of the New Zealand squad that won the 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens. He played for North Harbour Rugby Union, North Harbour in the National Provincial Championship (1976–2005), National Provincial Championship and spent the 2000 season with the Otago Highlanders in Super Rugby (then known as the Super 12). He played for the Point Chevalier Pirates in the Auckland Rugby League's 2010 Auckland Rugby League season, Phelan Shield. In 2019, he was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women's-15s player-of-the-ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmerston North
Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the Manawatu River, from the river's mouth, and from the end of the Manawatu Gorge, about north of the capital, Wellington. Palmerston North is the country's eighth-largest urban area, with an urban population of The official limits of the city take in rural areas to the south, north-east, north-west and west of the main urban area, extending to the Tararua Ranges; including the town of Ashhurst at the mouth of the Manawatu Gorge, the villages of Bunnythorpe and Longburn in the north and west respectively. The city covers a land area of . The city's location was once little more than a clearing in a forest and occupied by small communities of Māori, who called it ''Papa-i-Oea'', believed to mean "How beautiful it is". In the mid-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Rugby League
The Auckland Rugby League (ARL) is the governing body for the sport of rugby league in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It is responsible for rugby league in the region, including both club and school rugby league. It began in 1910 when the first season of club league in Auckland occurred. The first match was a practice game between Newton Rangers and Ponsonby United at Victoria Park which Ponsonby won 17 to 15. The first full club season was in 1910. The Auckland Rugby League was once recognised by England's Northern Rugby Football Union as New Zealand's governing body for the game of rugby league. In 2009, the ARL celebrated its centenary. Club competitions Auckland's premier competition is the Fox Memorial Shield. This has been contested since 1910. Senior Competition The Fox Memorial competition for 2022 has been shortened due to covid. It will be played over 13 weekends following a later start date (May 7). There will be 2 sections with 10 teams in each. The top 6 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Network Television
Sky Network Television Limited, more commonly known as Sky, is a New Zealand broadcasting company that provides pay television services via satellite television, satellite, media streaming services and broadband internet services. It is also a wholesale channel provider to New Zealand IPTV provider Vodafone NZ, Vodafone. As at 30 June 2022, Sky had 965,909 residential television subscribers consisting of 529,521 satellite subscribers and 436,388 streaming subscribers. Additionally, Sky had 6,877 commercial subscribers as well as 17,975 broadband customers. Despite the similarity of name, branding and services, such as ''Sky Go'' and ''MySky'' shared with its European equivalent, Sky Group, Sky, there is no connection between the companies. History The company was founded by Craig Heatley, Terry Jarvis, Trevor Farmer and Alan Gibbs in 1987 as Sky Media Limited. It was formed to investigate beaming sports programming into nightclubs and pubs using high performance 4-metre satelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Jones (journalist)
Stephen Jones is a Welsh journalist and the rugby correspondent for ''The Sunday Times'' since the 1970s. He covers rugby for ''The Times'' as well. He also contributes an occasional report on others sports like cricket, football, and golf, in addition to his main topic of rugby. In 2019, he was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women's-15s player-of-the-year award with Melodie Robinson, Danielle Waterman, Will Greenwood, Liza Burgess, Lynne Cantwell, Fiona Coghlan, Gaëlle Mignot, Jillion Potter, and Karl Te Nana Karl Solomon Te Nana (born 15 July 1975) is a New Zealand former rugby union and rugby league footballer, and currently works in broadcasting as a rugby commentator. A professional rugby union player, Te Nana won a gold medal as part of the Ne .... References Welsh journalists Living people People educated at Bassaleg School Year of birth missing (living people) {{Wales-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jillion Potter
Jillion Paige Potter (born July 5, 1986) is an American rugby union player. She was the captain of the 2016 USA Olympic women's Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics, rugby sevens team. Childhood Jillion Potter Austin, Texas to parents Scott Potter and Vikki Vranich. She has a twin brother Paul Thomas Potter and older sister Molly Potter Grosskopf. Rugby career Potter has played for over a decade including the 2013 Women’s Rugby Sevens World Cup, 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup and 2016 Olympics. She was a recipient of the inaugural Leadership Development Scholarship alongside Ada Milby (Philippines), Samantha Feausi (Hong Kong), Maha Zaoui (Tunisia), Rolande Boro (Burkina Faso), Araba Chintoh, Dr. Araba "Roo" Chintoh (Canada), and Maria Thomas (Trinidad and Tobago). She began her rugby career at the University of New Mexico. In 2019, she was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women's-15s player-of-the-year award with Melodie Robinson, Danielle Waterman, Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaëlle Mignot
Gaëlle Mignot (born 26 February 1987) is a French female rugby union player. She represented at the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup, and 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup She has played the majority of her career for Montpellier (women's rugby union) in the French women's Premier Division. In September 2017 Mignot moved to England and signed for Richmond F.C. to play for the south west London club in the newly formed Tyrrells Premier League. Mignot captained the French squad at the 2014 Women's Six Nations Championship and scored two tries in their opening game against . In 2019, she was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women's-15s player-of-the-year award with Melodie Robinson, Danielle Waterman, Will Greenwood, Liza Burgess, Lynne Cantwell, Fiona Coghlan, Jillion Potter, Stephen Jones, and Karl Te Nana Karl Solomon Te Nana (born 15 July 1975) is a New Zealand former rugby union and rugby league footballer, and currently works in broadcasting as a rugby commen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Coghlan
Fiona Coghlan (born March 3, 1981) is a former Ireland women's national rugby union team, Ireland women's rugby union international. Coghlan represented Ireland at the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup, 2006, 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, 2010 and 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, 2014 Women's Rugby World Cups. She also captained the Ireland team that won the 2013 Women's Six Nations Championship. In 2013 Coghlan was named ''The Irish Times'' / Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year after captaining Ireland to their first ever Women's Six Nations Championship, Six Nations, Grand Slam (rugby union), Grand Slam and Triple Crown (rugby union), Triple Crown titles. Coghlan was a member of the first Ireland teams to defeat , and . She was the Ireland captain on the latter two occasions. In addition to captaining Ireland, Coghlan also captained her club team, UL Bohemians R.F.C., UL Bohemians, her provincial team, Leinster Rugby, Leinster and was captain of the first ever B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynne Cantwell
Lynne Cantwell (born 27 September 1981) is an Irish rugby union player. 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup The 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup, and the sixth held in Europe. The World Cup Final took place on 17 August. All of the pool games for the World Cup took place at the Centre National du R .... She is 's most capped female player. She played at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens. In 2019, she was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women's-15s player-of-the-year award with Melodie Robinson, Danielle Waterman, Will Greenwood, Liza Burgess, Fiona Coghlan, Gaëlle Mignot, Jillion Potter, Stephen Jones (journalist), Stephen Jones, and Karl Te Nana. Cantwell has a Sports and Exercise Science degree from the University of Limerick and a Masters in Physiotherapy from Southampton University. As of 2019, Cantwell is a member of the board of Sports Ireland. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cantwell, Lynne 1981 birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liza Burgess
Liza 'Bird' Burgess (born 24 March 1964) is a former Welsh women's rugby union player who was a member of the 2018 World Rugby Hall of Fame class of inductees. Nicknamed Bird, her career spanned three decades, which included participating in the Wales Women's first-ever international in 1987, captaining Wales 62 times, playing in four World Cups, and coaching in two World Cups. Rugby Burgess' rugby career started at Loughborough University in 1983 (coached by Jim Greenwood) and continued at the Wasps after graduating. In 1986, Buress made her international debut playing for Great Britain against the Netherlands and France. She would then help form the Saracens, playing with the club for a decade and leading the side to the first treble recorded in the women’s domestic game (League and Cup in 15s and the National Sevens). After retiring from playing, Burgess has since coached the Wales women's national rugby union team forwards (and the under-20s national team) and is an ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Greenwood
William John Heaton Greenwood, MBE (born 20 October 1972) is an English former rugby union player who played for Leicester Tigers and Harlequins and was a member of England's 2003 World Cup-winning team and the 1997 British & Irish Lions. He played in the centre, mainly as an inside centre. He is the son of Dick Greenwood, who was a former England coach. Early life Born 20 October 1972 in Blackburn, Lancashire, Greenwood was educated at St Mary's Hall and Sedbergh School. As a schoolboy, he was also a talented cricketer and played for the Lancashire Schools representative team before ultimately deciding to concentrate on rugby. He graduated with a BA in Economics from Durham University in 1994. He then worked as a trader at a bank in London. Career Club Greenwood played club rugby for Preston Grasshoppers, Waterloo, Harlequins and Leicester Tigers. He left Harlequins and moved to Leicester Tigers in 1996 because the presence of England centre Will Carling meant he cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Waterman
Danielle "Nolli" Waterman (born 20 January 1985) is a retired professional English rugby union, rugby sevens player and current rugby commentator. As a member of England's national rugby union team, she became a multiple Six Nations Championship winner and World Champion in 2014. She was selected for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squad. She has two older brothers, Sam "Spunky" Waterman and Joe "Jim Jr" Waterman. Early life and career Danielle Waterman is the daughter of Jim Waterman, who played in more than 400 games for Bath Rugby. Rugby took hold of her while Waterman's family was staying in New Zealand. At Palmerston North High School, she was one of a few girls who played rugby with the boys. She continued to do so at her first sports club, Minehead Barbarians RFC, after returning to England. She played for the South West regional U-16s squad until she was selected to the England Senior Academy at the age of 15. Sports career On her Test debut in 2003 against Ire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodie Robinson
Melodie Robinson (born 25 May 1973) is a New Zealand sports journalist and presenter, and former international rugby union player for the New Zealand women's national rugby union team. She played 18 tests for the New Zealand women's team, the Black Ferns, from 1996 to 2002. Robinson won two world cups in that time, playing blindside or openside flanker. She also represented New Zealand in sevens at the Hong Kong 7s and Japan 7s. Life While playing rugby she gained a degree from the University of Otago (BA PHSE) and a journalism certificate from Wellington Polytechnic in 1996. Her first work was in radio, working at the press gallery in Wellington covering politics. Her natural leanings towards sports led her to be the online sports producer for Xtramsn.co.nz from 1998 to 2002. While working at Xtra she produced websites like allblacks.com, teamnewzealand.com. Robinson went to Sky Sports in 2002 commentating and presenting for the Super 12 and NPC. She was the regular host of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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