Career
Coffin previously played for the Silver Ferns, New Zealand"s national netball team, for which she was the vice-captain in 2001. She also played for the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic in the National Bank Cup between 1998–2004 and the Auckland Diamonds in 2007. She also played one season in the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Championship in 2008 for the Southern Steel, and is signed to play with the Northern Mystics in 2010.
Coffin is currently a sports commentator and news presenter for Television New Zealand and Māori Television.
Jenny-May Coffin played for the Silver Ferns from 1997–2002. She made 26 caps for the Ferns before retiring from international netball at the end of 2002.
Jenny-May Coffin has been playing in New Zealand domestic netball leagues since 1995 and the National Bank Cup since 1998. She started playing for the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic in 1998 and in 2000 was appointed captain.
She left the Magic in 2004, going into retirement and worked as a sports presenter on Television New Zealand. She returned to netball in 2006 and played in the National Championships before playing in the Auckland Diamonds as captain in 2007.
With the National Bank Cup replaced by the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Championship in 2008, Coffin was signed with the Southern Steel on a two-year contract. However, she pulled out of the team after the first season to focus on her television career. Coffin announced her return to competitive netball in October 2009, signing with the Northern Mystics for the 2010 Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Championship season.
Coffin first joined Television New Zealand in 2005 as the netball commentator for the National Bank Cup on ONE Sport.
In March of that year she was announced as the weekend sports presenter and sports producer during the weekdays. In 2006 she regained her role on ONE Sport and she rejoined the netball commentating team
In 2007 she played for the Auckland Diamonds netball team She presented sport on television One on Mondays and Tuesdays, and commentated some National Bank Cup games.
She was a news presenter on Television New Zealand 7 before Television New Zealand dropped the station.
