There’s no doubting who calls the shots in one Manawatū family of whistleblowers.
Toni Manuel and her daughter Jamie have achieved a unique feat, with both of them being New Zealand-accredited umpires at the same time.
Jamie, a teacher at Feilding Intermediate School, has her New Zealand B badge and is in the New Zealand watchlist squad, while Toni, a teacher at Palmerston North school Manukura, gained her New Zealand C badge earlier this year.
The rankings go from Central level to New Zealand C, B, A, then international. Toni earned her C badge at the lower North Island schools championship in August and Jamie got her B badge in 2015.
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“When I stopped playing six years ago I said to [Jamie] I might take up this umpiring thing,” Toni said. “Jamie was my first coach really and she still coaches me.
“She was the fire that got me here. I had travelled the country with her umpiring, that was how I got into it. She's the gun and I'm just the hanger on.”
Jamie started her umpiring while at Manukura, then rose quickly when she went to the University of Canterbury in 2013, earning her C badge the next year and B badge the year after.
She has officiated at New Zealand age-group and schools tournaments, the tertiary championships, has umpired New Zealand training games,...
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