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Townsend was born in Christchurch and started playing softball from age 14.
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Helen Townsend
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She represented New Zealand in softball in the New Zealand Under 19 team in her final year at Burnside High School, which she attended from 1983 to 1987.
Career
Foreign ten years from 1990 she played in the Senior Women"s team, and represented New Zealand at the senior world championships in 1994 and 1998. The team missed out on qualifying for the 1996 Olympics, but made it to the 2000 Olympics at Sydney, where it came fifth. She played in Italy for a year and then in Canada for a year, and retired from playing softball after the 2000 Olympics.
She remained video analyst for the men"s team until 2009, when she was inducted into the Softball New Zealand Hall of Fame, along with three others
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After the Olympics, she was a video analyst for the New Zealand men"s national softball team and while in that role, the men defended their world championship title.
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