Portia Woodman-Wickliffe on life after rugby and her King's Birthday honour
Fifteen-year-old Portia Woodman-Wickliffe stood in the Mount Albert Grammar School hall dreaming of her name going up on the sports honours board.
Little did she know, 18 years later, she would receive a King's Birthday honour.
'It's such a crazy, crazy idea,' Woodman-Wickliffe told the Herald. 'I'm extremely
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