Yvette McCausland-Durie has established herself as one of the country's premier coaches. A talented athlete who competed at the world junior athletics champs and played for the NZ under-21 netball team, Yvette joins the show to talk about her upbringing in rural Northland, her other life as a teacher and educator, what she's learned throughout her netball coaching career and why she doesn't get too high or too low over results.
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Trailblazers - Rebecca Sowden (17/03/23)
Rebecca Sowden is on a mission to correct the internet. A former Football Fern, Rebecca is a branding and sponsorship guru who has worked around the world and has turned her skills to changing mindsets about women’s sport. She joins the show to talk about her latest campaign, FIFA’s failed Visit Saudi partnership and the value of women’s sport.
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Trailblazers - Sarah Cowley-Ross (26/02/23)
This week Sarah Cowley-Ross joins Rikki to look back on a phenomenal Athletics career and take us behind the curtain of how hard it is to qualify for an Olympic games and the resilience it takes to get through a tough performance on a big stage.
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Trailblazers - Lorina Papali'i (19/02/23)
Lorina Papali'i is dual international athlete, having represented New Zealand in rugby league and Samoa in rugby union in a career dating back to 1994. In 2018 she was named in the New Zealand Warriors NRLW squad and in doing so, she and her son, Isaiah Papali'i became the first mother and son to play for the same club. She sits down with Rikki Swannell to discuss her storied career.
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Trailblazers - Ruth Croft (29/01/23)
Ruth Croft has gone from dodging electric fences on the West Coast to becoming one of the world’s best trail and ultra marathons runners, where she takes on races upwards of 100km in extraordinary places around the world.
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SENZ's Kirstie Stanway and Rikki Swannell focus on New Zealand female athletes and administrators who have helped shape women’s sports.
Each week Rikki and Kirstie will take listeners behind the scenes of the NZ sporting industry and interview female athletes from all codes.
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