Marla Runyan
Legally blind since childhood, Olympic track and field athlete and marathon runner Marla Runyan never let her vision loss stand in the way of her athletic dreams.
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Pearl Dawson
Pearl Howard Dawson was a leading figure in the formative years of women’s team sports in New Zealand, particularly hockey, both as a player and administrator.
Forrest Ross
New Zealand teacher, mountaineer, journalist and writer
Margaret Lorimer
New Zealand school principal and mountaineer.
Viola Bell
New Zealand teacher, sports administrator and community leader
Louie Roberts
Besides her interest in theatre, fashion, literature, art, woodwork and car maintenance, she was a capable mountaineer with a penchant for rugged West Coast New Zealand terrain. Her warmth, energy and knowledge assisted many students to attain international standards of practice in physiotherapy and helped to firmly establish the profession in New Zealand.
Sybil Lupp
The first New Zealand woman to achieve national prominence in motor racing and to establish a significant automotive business
Katie Gardiner
New Zealand mountaineer
Freda White
A naturally talented horsewoman, Evelyn Freda White excelled first as a show-jumper and later as a racehorse trainer, but it was for her colourful personality that she was best known in the horse world.
Laurel Campbell
New Zealand racehorse trainer