Adine Wilson - Skills and Performance
Author(s): Ron Palenski
Adine Wilson is the popular captain of the Silver Ferns netball team. This book is in part biographical and in part instructional - taking its lead from the best-selling Dan Carter - Skills and Performance book of 2006.
Adine took over the captain's reins in March 2005 for the Fisher & Paykel Series against England, and has retained the role, recently leading the Silver Ferns to Commonwealth Games Gold in Melbourne.
Product Information
Ron Palenski is one of New Zealand's most experienced and prolific sports writers. As a journalist, he covered many rugby tours in New Zealand and overseas as well as Olympic and Commonwealth Games and much else besides. He has been judged Sports Journalist of the Year, Cricket Writer of the Year, Rugby Writer of the Year and Sports Columnist of the year, and in 1997 won the Sir Lance Cross Memorial Prize for his writing about the Olympics. In 2004 he was made a life member of the New Zealand Sports Journalists Association and was given a SPARC Lifetime Award. He was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours in 2002.
General Fields
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- : Hachette New Zealand Ltd
- : Hodder Moa
- : 01 November 2008
- : 250mm X 190mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ron Palenski
- : Paperback
- : 796.324092
- : 208
- : colour illustrations
