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Date of birth | 14 November 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Levin, New Zealand [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Selica Winiata (born 14 November 1986) is a New Zealand Rugby union player and referee. She plays for the Black Ferns, the Black Ferns Sevens and provincially for the Manawatu Cyclones . She was part of the Black Ferns 2014 and Champion 2017 Rugby World Cup squads. She won a silver medal with the Black Ferns Sevens team at the inaugural women's 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament and a gold medal at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Winiata attended Freyberg High School and made her provincial debut for the Manawatū Cyclones in 2001, aged 14. [2] [3] She made her international debut for the Black Ferns in 2008 against the Wallaroos. [4]
Winiata appeared in three Tests against England in July 2013. [5] She scored a dramatic winning-try in the second test to help New Zealand clinch the series against England in Hamilton. [5]
She competed at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. [6] She was included in New Zealand's squad to play at the 2015 Women's Rugby Super Series. [7]
In 2016, She featured against the Wallaroos in the Laurie O'Reilly Cup where she scored four tries in the first test, and one try in the second. [8] [9] [10] In November that year, She scored two braces, against Canada and Ireland. [11] She was named New Zealand Rugby women's player of the year for 2016. [11] [12]
Winiata competed at the 2017 Women's Rugby Super Series. [13] She was named in the squad for the 2017 Rugby World Cup. [14] [15] She scored two tries in the final against England. [2] [16]
On 18 August 2018, She appeared for the Black Ferns side against Australia in a Bledisloe Cup double-header at Sydney. [4] She featured at the 2019 Women's Rugby Super Series in San Diego. [17] In August, She scored a try in her sides 47–10 victory over Australia in the opening of the Laurie O'Reilly Cup. [18]
Winiata signed with the Hurricanes Poua for the inaugural 2022 season of Super Rugby Aupiki. [19]
In 2023, She made her 100th appearance for the Manawatū Cyclones against Otago in the sixth round of the Farah Palmer Cup in Dunedin. [2] [3] She has scored 77 tries for the Cyclones, 14 of those tries were in 2012. [2] [3]
Winiata was a member of the Black Ferns Sevens side for eight years and appeared in 15 tournaments, scoring 32 tries. [2] She has also won two World Sevens Series titles and was part of the Aotearoa Maori Sevens team that won four Hong Kong Sevens titles. [2]
In 2013, she was a member of the champion New Zealand women's sevens team at the Rugby World Cup Sevens. [20] [21]
Winiata made her international officiating debut at the 2019 Oceania Women’s Sevens in Fiji. [22] [21] She was appointed as a match official for two rounds of the 2019–20 Women's Sevens Series, she officiated at the Dubai and Cape Town tournaments in December. [22] [21]
She was one of three Kiwis selected on the refereeing panel that officiated at the women's tournament of the 2020 Summer Olympics. [23] [24]
Winiata is a New Zealander of Māori descent (Ngāti Raukawa descent). [1] She was a Police officer in Palmerston North. [25] [26] In addition to being a Rugby Union player, referee and police officer (Senior Constable), she also works as a rugby commentator for Sky TV. [1]
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