Lois Muir
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| Full name | Lois Joan Muir | |||||||||||
| Born | 1935 Mataura, Southland, New Zealand |
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Dame Lois Joan Muir, DNZM, OBE (born 1935) is a New Zealand netball coach and administrator, and a former representative netball and basketball player. Muir represented New Zealand in two sports, playing with the Tall Ferns from 1952–1962 and the Silver Ferns from 1960–1963. She later became head coach of the Silver Ferns for 15 years from 1974–1988.[1] During this time she coached the Silver Ferns to World Championships gold in 1979 (jointly with Australia and Trinidad and Tobago) and in 1987.[2]
Muir received an OBE in 1984 and was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.[1] With the start of the Coca-Cola Cup (later the "National Bank Cup") in 1998, she became coach of the Capital Shakers team. In August that year, she was also diagnosed with breast cancer. Muir continued to coach the Shakers until the end of the 2000 season.[3] She also took up a coaching position with the Otago Rebels until the end of 2005.[1]
In 2004, Muir was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of services to sports administration and netball in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.[4] She was appointed President of Netball New Zealand for a term of two years starting from 2007.[1]
Dame Lois Muir was redesignated as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit at ceremony hosted by the Govenor-General, Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, and Lady Susan Satyanand, at the Dunedin Club on 8 September, 2009.[5] Dame Lois was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004, but chose to be redesignated as a Dame Companion under changes to the Royal New Zealand Honours system.
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- ^ a b c d Hodge, Peter (2007-02-27). "Lois Muir Elected Netball New Zealand President". Infonews. http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?l=1&t=24&id=138. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
- ^ Netball New Zealand: History. Retrieved on 2009-06-29.
- ^ Troughton, Jamie (2000-06-02). "Muir says adieu, happy with progress". The Dominion Post: p. 28.
- ^ "The Queen's Birthday Honours 2004". Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2004-06-07. http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/list.asp?id=27.
- ^ "Redesignation of Dame Lois Muir". newzealand.govt.nz. 2009-09-08. http://gg.govt.nz/image/tid/187.
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