Fans and players at the Kamo Rec grounds could be forgiven for doing a double-take when the referees showed up for the Kamo versus Old Boys match on Saturday.
Normally Natarsha Ganley would draw her fair share of second-glances among a rugby crowd but the 17-year-old Kamo High School student caused a few jaws to drop when she made her first premier grade appearance as an assistant referee.
“When I turned up to go through the pre-match routine a few of the players were staring … but then they saw my referee’s uniform and seemed to forget I’m a girl,” she said.
Ganley was adjudicating in her second match of the day after having earlier controlled a junior boys’ eighth-grade encounter between Kamo High School and Rodney College.
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