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Jenny McDonald
Inducted in 1996
For a time, it was difficult to imagine a New Zealand women’s hockey team without Jenny McDonald.
Sporting Category:
  • Hockey
She made her international debut in 1971 and played 192 matches for New Zealand, including 94 tests.

For the first eight years of her 15-year international career, she played at centre-forward and was a prolific goal-scorer, with more than 200 in internationals.

She was named captain for the Moscow Olympics in 1980 from which hockey subsequently withdrew, but by the time of the next Games, in Los Angeles, she was still captain.

In 1980, McDonald’s standing in world hockey was confirmed when she was the only New Zealander chosen in a world team to play the Netherlands.

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Kevin Skinner

(1927 - )

Skinner was one of the great All Black props of the 40s and early 50s but his fame almost entirely centres on his coming out of retirement in 1956 to bolster the New Zealand pack against South Africa in one of the most tumultuous series New Zealand has seen.
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