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Bernadine Oliver-Kerby, centre, and Vilimaina Davu, right, at the World Netball Championships final in Kingston, Jamaica, after New Zealand won 49-47.

Each week we ask a well-known New Zealander to share a photo memory. Broadcaster Bernadine Oliver-Kerby cut her teeth as a sports reporter. Now the host of America's Cup review coverage, the 45-year-old mother of two - who still gets members of the public referring to her as "the netball lady" - feels at home covering sport again.

She's pictured interviewing Silver Fern Vilimaina Davu after the team's victory over Australia in the World Netball Championships final in Kingston, Jamaica. New Zealand won 49-47.

We hadn't beaten Australia in over a dozen games - I think it was like, 16 games - so to take victory from the Australians, in a World Cup final - just was the icing on the cake for the Silver Ferns.

Jamaica's not a well-known netballing nation - they're better known for basketballers. We were playing on wooden floors, the lights kept going out during games, it was pretty basic. The heat was unbelievable, they were not air conditioned stadiums. It was quite the feat for the Silver Ferns to pull that off.

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Sky Presenter Bernadine Oliver-Kerby.

I remember hugging every sweaty Silver Fern body I could actually wrap my arms around. I even hugged the coaches, which is not the done thing. You can see by the look on my face: I am not a reporter there, I'm the biggest fan of the moment. Pretty much the 13th member of the Silver Ferns squad, unofficially of course. I didn't get a gold medal but you'd think I had.

It was the most dramatic moment I'll remember in sport. Vilimaina Davu was one of the players of the competition. She's this gentle giant, she's so imposing and so tall in stature, and quite daunting if you were coming up against her, but she had the most wicked sense of humour, honestly she was hilarious. You knew you'd always have a great interview with Vilimaina.

In Jamaica, all the cameramen there - they're a relaxed bunch, I think it's fair to say that. At lunchtime they'd go and lie down out in the sun behind these little prefab units that we were editing footage in. There was one day we were sitting there in the middle of the day cutting and editing and I started to feel a bit funny. I said to the cameraman, I've got to step outside I don't feel good. I stepped outside and I realised why I didn't - because one of the cameramen was lying behind the unit smoking the biggest ganja I've ever seen in my life. The smoke was filtering into to the air conditioning.

I spent probably 12 years at least reporting sport. I'm a sports fan - it's as simple as that. As a child I was on every sports team. I couldn't wait to play netball or cricket or basketball, skiing, water skiing. As a kid I'd listen to the cricket all through the night on my little orange transistor radio, this is an 8 or 9-year-old listening to test cricket. I would get up for all the All Black matches. I had profile books on athletes, tennis players. To come back to sport is something that doesn't scare me, it excites me. It's easy when you love it and you're interested in it.

Bernadine Oliver-Kerby is the host of America's Cup – Race Day Review, which screens every night of racing at 8.30pm on SKY Sport 4 (Channel 54).

 - Your Weekend