Madeleine Chapman | |
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Born | [1] Wellington, New Zealand [2] | 16 March 1994
Occupation(s) | Editor, author, journalist, cricketer, javelin thrower |
Organisation(s) | The Spinoff , North & South |
Sports career | |
Event | Javelin throw |
Sports achievements and titles | |
National finals | Javelin champion (2013, 2017) |
Personal best | 50.98 m (2017) |
Cricket information | |
Batting | Right-handed |
Bowling | Right-arm medium [3] |
Role | Batter |
International information | |
National side |
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Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
2010/11–2012/13 | Wellington Blaze |
Madeleine Elsie Chapman (born 16 March 1994) [2] is a New Zealand editor,journalist and author,and the current editor of The Spinoff and former editor of North &South . Chapman co-wrote the autobiography of New Zealand professional basketball player,Steven Adams,and in 2020 a biography of the Prime Minister of New Zealand,Jacinda Ardern.
Chapman is a former athlete,competing as a member of the Samoa women's national cricket team and as a New Zealand domestic champion javelin thrower. [4]
Chapman grew up in the Wellington Region. [5] Her father was born and raised in Lincoln,Nebraska,while her mother grew up on Upolu in Samoa. [6] Chapman has Tuvaluan heritage through her maternal grandfather,and Chinese heritage through her great-grandfather. [6] Chapman has nine siblings,and was an avid reader as a child. [6] [7]
Chapman received a scholarship to attend Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington,where she competed in basketball,athletics and cricket events. [7] [8] [9] In 2011 she won the Norwood Award for Outstanding Girls Under 20 player of the year, [10] and was also named the College Sport Wellington women's Cricket Player of the Year. [11]
From 2010 to 2013,Chapman played cricket professionally for the Wellington Blaze. [12] [13] [14] [2] In 2012,Chapman joined the Samoa women's national cricket team,playing seven rounds in the 2012 Pepsi ICC East Asia Pacific Women's Trophy and topping the batting leader board for the competition. [15] [16] Chapman continued to compete for Samoa until 2014. [17]
Representing Auckland-based North Harbour Bays Athletics,Chapman first competed in New Zealand athletics competitions as a javelin thrower in 2013. [1] [18] She attended the New Zealand Athletics Championships in 2013,winning two gold medals for the javelin throw. [1] In 2014,Chapman quit athletics due to an injury. [19]
Chapman returned to athletics competitions in late 2016 and 2017. [1] At the Porritt Classic in 2017,Chapman was the champion women's javelin thrower (49.18 m). [20] At the 2017 New Zealand national championships,Chapman won a gold medal with a career-best javelin throw of 50.98 metres, [1] outcompeting national champion Tori Peeters at the competition. [21] As of 2022,this ranks Chapman fourth in the list of record holders for New Zealand Women's javelin throw. [22]
Chapman received a scholarship to attend the University of Auckland,where she studied education. [6] [7] While at university,Chapman wrote as a film critic for Craccum ,the Auckland University Students' Association magazine. [23] [24]
In 2016,Chapman became a staff writer for online magazine The Spinoff , [7] beginning as an intern. [25] In the same year,Chapman was asked to ghostwrite New Zealand professional basketball player Steven Adams' autobiography,which was published in 2018. [26] Chapman had known Adams since childhood,as both had played in Wellington regional high school basketball competitions. [26]
While at The Spinoff,Chapman appeared on Three infotainment television programme The Spinoff TV (2018), [6] and has written and directed Scratched:Aotearoa's Lost Sporting Legends (2019 onwards),an NZ On Air-funded documentary webseries. [27] In 2018,Chapman won the Young Business Journalist of the Year award at the New Zealand Shareholders' Association's 2018 Business Journalism Awards, [28] and the best opinion writer (humour/satire) award at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards. [29] Some of Chapman's best-known works include pieces on housing unaffordability, [30] sleep inertia aiding lamps, [31] and ranking lists of snack foods such as biscuits and lollies. [32] Her 2018 article exposing false country of origin practices by Denise L'Estrange-Corbet's fashion label World won the award for best (single) news story / scoop at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards. [33]
Chapman left The Spinoff as a writer in early 2020,taking a break from journalism. [25] During the same year,Chapman released A New Kind of Leader,a biography of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern she was commissioned to write in 2019. [34] [35] When print magazine North &South was relaunched in late 2020,Chapman became the publication's senior editor. [36] In late 2021,Chapman became the co-editor of The Spinoff,alongside long time Spinoff staff writer Alex Casey. [37] [38]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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2013 | New Zealand Athletics Championships - Senior Women | Auckland, New Zealand | 1st | 47.63 m |
2013 | New Zealand Athletics Championships - Women Under 20 | Auckland, New Zealand | 1st | 45.89 m |
2017 | New Zealand Athletics Championships – Open Women | Hamilton, New Zealand | 1st | 50.98 m |
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