Home & happy NOELINE’S big new start
When the Weekly asks Silver Ferns coach Noeline Taurua to describe the last year of her life in a single sentence, she is, uncharacteristically, lost for words.
Anyone who knows Noeline – or Noels, as she’s better and more affectionately known – also knows she doesn’t believe in word economy. “I’m not a one-word or one-sentence type of girl!” she laughs.
Eventually, she settles on “humbled. And grateful. And satisfying. And exciting.”
It’s fair play, really, when you consider her last 12 months. A whirlwind by anyone’s measure, and a fairytale according to the nation’s netballers, Noeline’s story is the stuff of legend. From being shunned for the top job at Netball New Zealand, to leading a battered and bruised team to a World Cup victory after a 16-year
