Our Netball Rotorua community is incredibly proud of our association with Taini Jamison. She represented Netball Rotorua, winning the National Championships with the team, and was selected for the North Island team several times. After retiring from playing in 1959, Taini turned to coaching. Our Rotorua teams were lucky to have her coach our reps for 10 years.
Perhaps her biggest achievement was being elected coach of the New Zealand Netball team of 1967 which won the World Netball Championships in Perth. She was New Zealand's first Māori coach, and with a win percentage rate of 90 percent, one of our most successful coaches (if not the very best).
Taini was our Netball Rotorua President for 20 years, from 1981 to 2001, an incredible testament to her dedication to netball on all levels, for which we will always be grateful.
Taini was awarded the Netball NZ Service award in 1972 and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to netball in 1994.
In 1996, Taini, along with the World Championship-winning team of 1967, was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. She was inducted again, individually, to the NZ Sports Hall of Fame in 2006 and was made a life member of Netball New Zealand.
In 2008 the Taini Jamison Trophy was established: a trophy that is contested when any netballing nation(s), other than Australia, plays the Silver Ferns in New Zealand. Taini donated her miniature replica trophy to Netball Rotorua to look after and can be seen in our trophy cabinet.
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