Women's National Championship Records
WOMEN'S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RECORDS 1940 — 2015 FIFTH EDITION — 2015 INTRODUCTION The following pages contain, as far as I can ascertain, the winners and runners-up of all Women's and Girls' New Zealand domestic competitions since the inception of our sport up until the completion of the most recent season. At this time I have not been able to document runners-up prior to 1958, but hopefully some of that information will become available in due course. Earlier listings of the various championship winners have generally been assembled under a trophy banner, ie winners of the Beatty Cup or the Bensel Cup. While that method served the purpose admirably at the time, changes — notably sponsorship and different tournament formats — make that approach, in my opinion, more cumbersome. Many trophies were re-allocated and sometimes superceded, and on occasions reappeared in a different role, which sometimes made it difficult to follow just what competition/format they were being awarded to. I have therefore opted to list competitions continuously from the beginning until, in some cases, they were eventually discontinued altogether and note, as best I can, the various stages trophies were awarded or discarded. With most age-group categories I have added explanatory notes, which hopefully make clearer the evolution of the various grades. These days our "official records" largely ignore the days before Under-19, Under-17 and Under-15 grades, but I think it is important to ensure the records are maintained as accurately as possible right from the beginning of those grades which played such a huge part in building our sport in the '60s.
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