Madeleine Chapman

Madeleine Chapman
Chapman in 2021
Born (1994-03-16) 16 March 1994 (age 30)[1]
Wellington, New Zealand[2]
Occupation(s)Editor, author, journalist, cricketer, javelin thrower
Organisation(s)The Spinoff, North & South
Sports career
EventJavelin throw
Sports achievements and titles
National finalsJavelin champion (2013, 2017)
Personal best50.98 m (2017)
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium[3]
RoleBatter
International information
National side
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2010/11–2012/13Wellington Blaze

Madeleine Elsie Chapman (born 16 March 1994)[2] is a New Zealand editor, journalist and author, and the current editor of The Spinoff and former editor of North & South. Chapman co-wrote the autobiography of New Zealand professional basketball player, Steven Adams, and in 2020 a biography of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern.

Chapman is a former athlete, competing as a member of the Samoa women's national cricket team and as a New Zealand domestic champion javelin thrower.[4]

Biography

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Early life

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Chapman grew up in the Wellington Region.[5] Her father was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, while her mother grew up on Upolu in Samoa.[6] Chapman has Tuvaluan heritage through her maternal grandfather, and Chinese heritage through her great-grandfather.[6] Chapman has nine siblings, and was an avid reader as a child.[6][7]

Chapman received a scholarship to attend Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington, where she competed in basketball, athletics and cricket events.[7][8][9] In 2011 she won the Norwood Award for Outstanding Girls Under 20 player of the year,[10] and was also named the College Sport Wellington women's Cricket Player of the Year.[11]

Sporting career

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From 2010 to 2013, Chapman played cricket professionally for the Wellington Blaze.[12][13][14][2] In 2012, Chapman joined the Samoa women's national cricket team, playing seven rounds in the 2012 Pepsi ICC East Asia Pacific Women's Trophy and topping the batting leader board for the competition.[15][16] Chapman continued to compete for Samoa until 2014.[17]

Representing Auckland-based North Harbour Bays Athletics, Chapman first competed in New Zealand athletics competitions as a javelin thrower in 2013.[1][18] She attended the New Zealand Athletics Championships in 2013, winning two gold medals for the javelin throw.[1] In 2014, Chapman quit athletics due to an injury.[19]

Chapman returned to athletics competitions in late 2016 and 2017.[1] At the Porritt Classic in 2017, Chapman was the champion women's javelin thrower (49.18 m).[20] At the 2017 New Zealand national championships, Chapman won a gold medal with a career-best javelin throw of 50.98 metres,[1] outcompeting national champion Tori Peeters at the competition.[21] As of 2022, this ranks Chapman fourth in the list of record holders for New Zealand Women's javelin throw.[22]

Media career

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Chapman received a scholarship to attend the University of Auckland, where she studied education.[6][7] While at university, Chapman wrote as a film critic for Craccum, the Auckland University Students' Association magazine.[23][24]

In 2016, Chapman became a staff writer for online magazine The Spinoff,[7] beginning as an intern.[25] In the same year, Chapman was asked to ghostwrite New Zealand professional basketball player Steven Adams' autobiography, which was published in 2018.[26] Chapman had known Adams since childhood, as both had played in Wellington regional high school basketball competitions.[26]

While at The Spinoff, Chapman appeared on Three infotainment television programme The Spinoff TV (2018),[6] and has written and directed Scratched: Aotearoa's Lost Sporting Legends (2019 onwards), an NZ On Air-funded documentary webseries.[27] In 2018, Chapman won the Young Business Journalist of the Year award at the New Zealand Shareholders' Association's 2018 Business Journalism Awards,[28] and the best opinion writer (humour/satire) award at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards.[29] Some of Chapman's best-known works include pieces on housing unaffordability,[30] sleep inertia aiding lamps,[31] and ranking lists of snack foods such as biscuits and lollies.[32] Her 2018 article exposing false country of origin practices by Denise L'Estrange-Corbet's fashion label World won the award for best (single) news story / scoop at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards.[33]

Chapman left The Spinoff as a writer in early 2020, taking a break from journalism.[25] During the same year, Chapman released A New Kind of Leader, a biography of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern she was commissioned to write in 2019.[34][35] When print magazine North & South was relaunched in late 2020, Chapman became the publication's senior editor.[36] In late 2021, Chapman became the co-editor of The Spinoff, alongside long time Spinoff staff writer Alex Casey.[37][38]

Bibliography

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  • Adams, Steven; Chapman, Madeleine (2018). My Life, My Fight. Auckland: Penguin. ISBN 9781525285318. OCLC 1057771816.
  • Chapman, Madeleine (2020). Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader. Black Inc. ISBN 9781760641818. OCLC 1222806027.

Achievements

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Javelin throw

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Year Competition Venue Position Notes
2013 New Zealand Athletics Championships - Senior Women Auckland, New Zealand 1st 47.63 m
2013 New Zealand Athletics Championships - Women Under 20 Auckland, New Zealand 1st 45.89 m
2017 New Zealand Athletics Championships – Open Women Hamilton, New Zealand 1st 50.98 m

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "ATHLETICS NEW ZEALAND RECORDS & RANKINGS: MADELEINE CHAPMAN". Athletics New Zealand. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Madeleine Chapman". New Zealand Cricket. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Maddy Chapman". ESPN Sports Media. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Madeleine Chapman – The story of Steven Adams". Radio New Zealand. 28 July 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  5. ^ Horne, Erik (3 June 2018). "How Madeleine Chapman got to write Steven Adams' autobiography". The Oklahoman. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Humans of the Islands: Madeleine Chapman". thecoconet.tv. 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  7. ^ a b c d Chapman, Madeleine (24 July 2018). "His life, his fight: Madeleine Chapman on co-writing Steven Adams' autobiography". The Spinoff. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  8. ^ Singh, Anendra (29 November 2006). "CRICKET: Bay champions left trophy-less". Hawke's Bay Today. New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Capital's best set to make their mark". The Dominion Post. Stuff. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  10. ^ "Elliott and Devine Cricket Wellington Awards Winners". New Zealand Cricket. 15 April 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  11. ^ Barton, Tim (7 November 2011). "Teens already making mark on world scene". The Dominion Post. Stuff. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Wellington Blaze Players". Cricket Wellington. Archived from the original on 20 January 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Women's domestic summer opens with three rounds of action". New Zealand Cricket. 1 December 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  14. ^ Singh, Anendra (8 January 2012). "Blaze fired up to win matches". Hawke's Bay Today. New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  15. ^ "Madeleine Chapman". Cric HQ. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  16. ^ "2012 Pepsi ICC East Asia Pacific Women's Trophy – Leader Boards – Batting". Cric HQ. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  17. ^ "Samoan women head to Japan for qualifying". Auckland Cricket. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  18. ^ "Madeleine CHAPMAN". World Athletics. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  19. ^ Chapman, Madeleine (2 March 2016). "How New Zealand quietly became a throwing powerhouse". The Spinoff. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  20. ^ Pearson, Joseph (15 February 2017). "Ben Langton Burnell dreams big after reaching 2018 Commonwealth Games standard". Stuff. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  21. ^ Athletics New Zealand (18 March 2017). "Women to the fore on day 2 of NZ Track and Field Championships". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  22. ^ "JAVELIN THROW WOMEN ALL TIME". Athletics New Zealand. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  23. ^ Chapman, Madeleine (2 March 2014). "American Hustle". Craccum. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  24. ^ Chapman, Madeleine (23 March 2014). "Film Comment • Steve McQueen". Craccum. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  25. ^ a b Black, Eleanor (28 March 2020). "Exit Interview: Jacinda Ardern bio author Madeleine Chapman on quitting writing to paint the garage". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  26. ^ a b McClure, Tess (30 July 2018). "NBA Star Steven Adams' Kiwi Ghostwriter on His New Book". Vice. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  27. ^ "Meet six more of Aotearoa's lost sporting legends in the new season of Scratched". The Spinoff. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  28. ^ "Newsroom's Rod Oram wins business award". Newshub. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  29. ^ "Newshub's Tova O'Brien named NZ's best political journalist at Voyager Media Awards". Newshub. 18 May 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  30. ^ "Spinoff Top 20 Countdown: The most-read stories across the site in the year AD 2016". The Spinoff. 26 December 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  31. ^ Schulz, Chris (20 December 2021). "The Spinoff's biggest stories of 2021, updated". The Spinoff. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  32. ^ Manhire, Toby (31 December 2020). "The top 20 of 2020: The Spinoff's most-read pieces in the diabolical year". The Spinoff. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  33. ^ "REPORTING WINNERS' AND JUDGES' COMMENTS". Newspaper Publishers' Association. Archived from the original on 1 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  34. ^ Braunias, Steve (9 April 2020). "Book of the Week: Jacinda Ardern by Madeleine Chapman". Newshub. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  35. ^ Chapman, Madeleine (31 March 2020). "Madeleine Chapman: Our PM is the finals MVP we need right now". The Spinoff. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  36. ^ North & South (16 November 2020). "An icon returns. New-look North & South magazine hits shelves". Scoop. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  37. ^ Manhire, Toby (24 May 2021). "Editorial changes at The Spinoff". The Spinoff. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  38. ^ "Playing Favourites: Madeleine Chapman and Alex Casey". Radio New Zealand. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
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