Black Fern Kelly Brazier on her way to scoring the winning try in the 2018 Comm Games sevens final. Who could forget the 2018 Commonwealth Games sevens final on the Gold Coast, where Brazier scored an 80-metre runaway try in extra time to secure gold for her Black Ferns Sevens sisters. When the Black Ferns Sevens team for the Commonwealth Games is named next week, Brazier – a Black Fern for 13 years and a four-time World Cup winner - is almost certain to be among them. “It would be awesome to play at the same tournament as Kelly for the first time.” “Every time we play cricket at the Mount, she brings a few of the Black Ferns Sevens girls along,” Bates says. “So my mum was really happy,” laughs Bates, Otago Girls’ High head girl in 2005.īut she’s stayed in touch with Brazier, Otago Girls' 13th Olympian, following her dazzling career closely. Her rugby career ended prematurely when she broke her collarbone – playing basketball – and she never picked up an oval ball again. But there’s always the fear of being injured.” I always wondered later in life, when I was fitter, how I’d go playing rugby again.
I was a big girl for my age, so I charged through the midfield.
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Even though she’s hailed as one of the best fielders in international cricket, holding the record for most catches in a series (20, incidentally). “I don’t know if sevens would have been for me - I wasn’t quite quick enough,” Bates says. And then there was rugby, where she played in the school backline alongside Black Ferns Sevens Olympic champion Kelly Brazier. Those sports included cricket and basketball, volleyball and touch.
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But did she come close to playing rugby at those lofty heights, too?Īt Otago Girls' High School, a sports-mad Bates threw herself into every code that had a tournament to travel to - her prerequisite before she’d sign up. She’s played basketball at the Olympics and is about to play cricket at the Commonwealth Games. If not for an untimely break, Otago White Fern and Tall Fern Suzie Bates could have taken a different sporting path, Suzanne McFadden discovers in part 3 of our On Your Mark series, taking Commonwealth Games athletes back to high school. The copyright law extends its protection to unpublished works from the moment of creation in a tangible form.LockerRoom Series Suzie Bates’ surprising rugby career This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excesses of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
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