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“I’d give advice when I could and then I gradually worked my way up.<\/p>\n
“You get your teeth into it and you’re there with them, it’s very lovely to be able to give advice to the young ones.”<\/p>\n
Ms Carew has a lifetime of stories, many stemming from her days as an umpire and manager of the Under 21 Victoria squad, when she travelled around Australia.<\/p>\n
“I loved playing, I really did, and after you played you would umpire, it all fitted in, I enjoyed every minute of it,” she said.<\/p>\n
Her love of sport is deep, and she sometimes only showed up to school on sports day.<\/p>\n
“I was shocking at going to school, I’d go down the beach or somewhere like that, but it didn’t hurt me anyhow,” she said. “They thought the best way to punish me, because I’d only turn up on sports day, was to keep me out of the netball \u2013 well, that broke my heart.”<\/p>\n
The threat of not making the team was enough to make Ms Carew start attending school on a more regular basis.<\/p>\n
Ms Carew credits making it to 100 to her active lifestyle, as well as the good friends surrounding her, saying she’s lived a very “fortunate” and “beautiful” life.<\/p>\n
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