Margaret Filippini

Margaret Filippini
Personal information
Full name Margaret Faye Filippini (née Gardiner)
Born (1946-08-01)1 August 1946
Died 16 August 2003(2003-08-16) (aged 57)
Rotorua, New Zealand
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
School Southland Girls' High School
Occupation Schoolteacher
Netball career
Playing position(s): GS, GA
Years National team(s) Caps
1967 New Zealand 1
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
World Netball Championships
Gold medal – first place 1967 Perth Tournament

Margaret Faye Filippini (née Gardiner; 1 August 1946 – 16 August 2003) was a New Zealand netball player. She was a member of the New Zealand team at the 1967 World Netball Championships, when New Zealand won the tournament for the first time.

Early life

Born Margaret Faye Gardiner on 1 August 1946, Filippini was the daughter of John Robert and Fannie Carnegy Gardiner.[1][2] She was educated at Southland Girls' High School, and was the goal attack in the school's netball team when they won the South Island schools netball tournament at Timaru in 1963.[3] She went on to become a schoolteacher, following in the footsteps of her father who was a school headmaster.[2]

Netball career

Domestic

Gardiner played representative netball for Southland at the national championships in 1962, and after the tournament was named as a trialist for the New Zealand team to compete at the inaugural world championship the following year.[4] At the South Island tournament in August 1963, she was described as being a "resourceful forward" in Southland's win over Otago,[5] and later that month at the conclusion of the New Zealand championships she was named in the South Island team for the annual inter-island match.[6] Having moved to Otago, she again made the South Island team in 1964; her play at goal attack in the inter-island match "proved much too skilful for the individualistic tactics of the North team", and she gave "capable support" to goal shooter Joan Martin.[7] In 1965, Gardiner was captain of the Otago representative team at the national championships and once again gained selection for the South Island team.[8][9] Back playing for Southland in 1966, she was one of 21 players named as trialists for the national team to travel to the 1967 World Netball Championships.[10]

Gardiner again represented Southland at the New Zealand championships in 1968.[11]

International

After trials in March 1967, Gardiner was selected for the New Zealand national netball team that travelled to Australia and competed in that year's world championships in Perth.[12][13] At the tournament, Gardiner struggled to break into the first-choice team for New Zealand—with Joan Harnett and Mirth Solomon preferred in the circle—and only played in one match, against Singapore.[1] She did, however, appear in pre-tournament tour games against Northern Tasmania and Western Australia.[14][15]

The 1967 world championship team was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.[16]

Later life and death

Gardiner married Douglas James Filippini, and they had one child.[17][18] They later separated, and Douglas Filippini, a lawyer, was convicted of fraud and sentenced to nine months in jail in 1979,[19] and struck off as a barrister and solicitor the following year.[20]

Filippini died at her home in Rotorua on 16 August 2003.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b "Margaret Filippini". Netball New Zealand. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Gardiner, John Robert – Invercargill – retired headmaster". Archives New Zealand. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Basketball: S.I. schools tourney". The Press. Vol. 102, no. 30235. 13 September 1963. p. 7. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  4. ^ "International trials team". The Press. Vol. 101, no. 29911. 27 August 1962. p. 6. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Basketball: Canterbury defeat Southland, Otago". The Press. Vol. 102, no. 30201. 5 August 1963. p. 13. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Basketball: Canterbury wants one more victory". The Press. Vol. 102, no. 30224. 31 August 1963. p. 21. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Basketball title to Rotorua". The Press. Vol. 103, no. 30533. 31 August 1964. p. 13. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Fresh approach by Canterbury at basketball tournament". The Press. Vol. 104, no. 30838. 25 August 1965. p. 13. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Secured grip on N.Z. cup". The Press. Vol. 104, no. 30841. 28 August 1965. p. 16. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  10. ^ "Basketball trialists". The Press. Vol. 106, no. 31151. 30 August 1966. p. 6. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  11. ^ "National basketball: Canterbury sharing lead on last day". The Press. Vol. 108, no. 31766. 24 August 1968. p. 15. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  12. ^ "To play in Aust." The Press. Vol. 106, no. 31329. 28 March 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  13. ^ "Accent on experience in N.Z. basketball team". The Press. Vol. 106, no. 31333. 1 April 1967. p. 11. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  14. ^ "98–15 win to N.Z. tourists". The Press. Vol. 107, no. 31439. 4 August 1967. p. 11. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  15. ^ "N.Z. basketball success". The Press. Vol. 107, no. 31447. 14 August 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  16. ^ "Netball, 1967". New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  17. ^ "Births". The Press. Vol. 113, no. 33252. 15 June 1973. p. 21. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  18. ^ a b "Fillippini, Margaret Faye". The New Zealand Herald. 18 August 2003.
  19. ^ "Lawyer jailed". The Press. 29 June 1979. p. 2. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  20. ^ "Law Practitioners Act 1955" (PDF). New Zealand Gazette. No. 51. 8 May 1980. p. 1346. Retrieved 15 July 2023.