Melodie Robinson Biography – Melodie Robinson Wiki
Melodie Robinson is a New Zealand sports journalist and presenter, and former international rugby union player for the New Zealand women’s national rugby union team. She played 18 tests for the New Zealand women’s team, the Black Ferns, from 1996 to 2002. Robinson won two world cups in that time, playing blindside or openside flanker. She also represented New Zealand in sevens at the Hong Kong 7s and Japan 7s.
While playing rugby she gained a degree from the University of Otago (BA PHSE) and a journalism certificate from Wellington Polytechnic in 1996. Her first work was in radio, working at the press gallery in Wellington covering politics. Her natural leanings toward sports led her to be the online sports producer for Xtramsn.co.nz from 1998 to 2002. While working at Xtra she produced websites like allblacks.com and teamnewzealand.com. Robinson went to Sky Sports in 2002 commentating and presenting for the Super 12 and NPC. She was the regular host of Super Rugby and ITM Cup build-ups, also hosted the ANZ Championship and international netball build-ups, has hosted the Halberg Awards, and is a regular on World Rugby’s Women’s Sevens Series as a commentator. She was also a journalist for Sky TV NZ on events like the Commonwealth Games and Netball World Cup 2015.
She is also a former winner of the Miss Canterbury Beauty Pageant Robinson balanced her full-time role with Sky Sport with part-time study at Auckland University’s Business School for her PostGrad Diploma. In 2019, she was on the first panel to determine the World Rugby women’s-15s player-of-the-year award with Danielle Waterman, Will Greenwood, Liza Burgess, Lynne Cantwell, Fiona Coghlan, Gaëlle Mignot, Jillion Potter, Stephen Jones, and Karl Te Nana. She was also on the World Rugby Men’s 15s Player of the Year award voting panel. She was appointed TVNZ’s new General Manager, Sport, and Events, also in 2019. She is a castaway on the 2022 series of the New Zealand reality television show Celebrity Treasure Island.
Melodie Robinson Age
He was born on May 25, 1973, in New Plymouth, New Zealand.
Melodie Robinson Husband
She is married to her husband, Marcus Wheelhouse. He is a former pro golfer turned coach and was ranked number one amateur golfer in the world at one stage, he was in the Eisenhower Trophy team the year after Phil Tataurangi won it but he had a terrible ear infection. That gave him doubts later on when he went pro and that is tough on a golfer. He decided on being a coach.
Melodie Robinson Children
She has two sons named after favorite sports stars Jenson (Button) and Fred (Couples). Her first child, Jenson was born on October 25, 2009, and her second son is Freddie.
Melodie Robinson Family
Her mother passed on after battling cancer. In her younger days, her father was a fireman and a carpenter but he was also in the Devil’s Henchmen gang, mostly in Timaru according to nzherald.co.nz. He later relocated to Australia to become a policeman. Her grandfather and great-grandfather were Maori All Blacks.
Her father worked two jobs and her mother worked from home making fur coats and then owned a bridal hire company. She was the second oldest child and got to spend a lot of time looking after her siblings, her brothers and sisters who were 8, 10, and 12 years younger than her. Her family had a big and spacious backyard and basically played out the back all the time. When her mother and father split, he took the boys while she was left with her sister Celia at home. She expressed feeling like a street kid around Christchurch walking everywhere and hanging out at the square. In an interview with nzherald.co.nz, she said she had a lot of love from her parents though, and they both taught her the value of working hard.
She has a brother named Joe and a sister named Nareta.
Melodie Robinson Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches tall (1.74 meters) tall.
Melodie Robinson Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @melodierobinson.
