Kerri-Jo Te Huia | |
Nationality: | New Zealander |
Years Active: | 2009 - |
Sport: | Sheep shearing |
Pb: | World Record for most strong-wool ewes shorn by a women |
Kerri-Jo Te Huia is a champion sheep shearer from Te Kūiti, New Zealand.[1]
Te Huia is the youngest of five children, several of whom work in shearing. Her parents were also shearing contractors and trainers.[2]
In 2009, she competed in the New Zealand Shearing Championships in wool handling and intermediate-grade shearing.[3]
In 2012, in her fifth season of shearing, Te Huia broke the women's eight-hour solo lamb shearing world record by shearing 507 lambs; the previous record was 470.[4] [5] She subsequently moved to South Australia, and has worked as a trainer at Women in Shearing workshops at the TAFE institute in Naracoorte.[6]
In 2018, Te Huia broke the women's world record for shearing the most strong-wool ewes in nine hours: 452 ewes. The shearing took place at Otapawa Station in Tiraumea.[7]