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| Date of birth | 3 May 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight | 82 kg (12 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arneta Honey Hireme-Smiler MNZM (born 3 May 1981) is a New Zealand rugby football player who has represented her country in rugby league, rugby sevens and rugby union. Due to her multi-sport career, Hireme-Smiler has been referred to as Honey Bill Williams, in reference to her New Zealand male counterpart Sonny Bill Williams. [1] [2]
From Putaruru, South Waikato, Hireme-Smiler played rugby league for Putaruru Dragons from 5 years old and then onto the senior women's grades playing for the Papakura Sea Eagles club in the Auckland Rugby League women's competition. She has represented Counties Manukau, Bay of plenty, Waikato and Waicoa Bay in the New Zealand Rugby League's women's competition over her 20 year career at representative level. [3]
In rugby union, she plays and coaches Melville women's Premier rugby team and represents Waikato in the women's provincial championship. [3] [4]
Hireme-Smiler has played in four Rugby League World Cups, she played for the Kiwiferns in the 2003 Women's world cup 2008 and 2013 World Cups. [3] She captained the team in 2013. [5] She was named in the world women's rugby league in all 4 world cup tournaments, and also awarded player of the Tournament in 2013. Honey played in the 2017 Rugby League world cup representing the kiwiferns finishing the tournament as the highest try scorer and finalist for player of the tournament.
Hireme-Smiler has played for the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team in the 2013 Rugby Sevens World Cup in Moscow. [5] She has also played for New Zealand on the IRB Women's Sevens World Series and represented New Zealand Maori in sevens. [6] [7]
She made her New Zealand rugby union debut at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, where she was named to the World Cup Dream Team [8] and the World XV team. [5] In 2014, she also became one of New Zealand's first contracted sevens players. [5]
She competed in the Women's Rugby Super Series 2013-2016.
In June 2018, Hireme-Smiler joined the St George Illawarra Dragon ahead of the inaugural NRL Women's Premiership commencing in September 2018. [9] Honey is the current Captain for the NZ women's rugby league team, co-captaining with Laura Mariu, between the pair they have over 36 years of experience at international level. Honey was awarded NZ women's rugby league player of the year in 2018 her third time winning top honours. Honey was also a finalist in 2018 for the International Women's Golden boot award
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In the 2020 New Year Honours, Hireme was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rugby league. [10]
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