Silver Ferns coach Dame Noeline Taurua, who attended Taupō-nui-a-Tia College, has represented New Zealand as both a player and coach. Photo / NZME
Silver Ferns coach Dame Noeline Taurua, who attended Taupō-nui-a-Tia College, has represented New Zealand as both a player and coach. Photo / NZME
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Taupō local Bevan Choat, who has decades of experience in media, has boxes full of information on Taupō's sporting history up to 2001 when he retired. Today, we look at sportspeople with Taupō connections who have represented New Zealand.
Wearing of the Silver Fern takes pride of place for any sportsman or sportswoman and many who have been residents of Taupō have earned this great honour.
My personal records, which began in 1968, forced me to look back before that date when I came to Taupō as a radio sports commentator and sports writer, and I noted the first to be honoured was All Black Les Cupples who played his rugby in the East Taupō sub-union.
This list, compiled from my very own sporting records and information up to 2001, contains the names of sportspeople who have lived in Taupō, or who have transferred to Taupō having played their sport elsewhere, as well as those born in Taupō who have gained the silver fern through having played their sport in the Taupō area.
Taupō man Kevin Rigby was a talented all-round sportsman and a member of the New Zealand men's hockey team that competed at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Photo / Supplied
19. Peter Herrick (equestrian, NZ team manager to two Olympics)
