The 34-year-old has some frantic days balancing her job with TVNZ, and her role as co-captain of the Southern Steel.
But the evergreen midcourter was 100% committed to the cause and has vowed to do whatever it takes to help make the Otago-Southland combined side's campaign in the inaugural ANZ Championship a success.
Even if that means reducing her hours at TVNZ.
‘‘I guess I have to keep assessing it on a week by week basis,'' Coffin said when asked how she was juggling her job and netball obligations.
‘‘If I feel the travel and work is all getting a bit too much, then I'm committed to the Steel so it would be a matter of readjusting things at work.
‘‘I have a good boss, so if I'm a bit tired I can adjust things accordingly. They're really supportive of what I'm doing.''
The competition is just a week old so Coffin was not finding it too taxing on her energy levels yet. The Steel lost its opening match to the NSW Swifts in Sydney on Monday.
That was tough enough but the following day was almost as challenging.
‘‘I got back at midday on Tuesday, jumped in a cab and drove straight to TVNZ where I had to do a 10hr shift. I'm trying to fit things in around my playing schedule and sometimes that means I work three days, and sometimes four days.''
But the former Silver Fern was determined not to use her busy schedule as an excuse for a below-par performance. Nor was she happy to hide behind advancing years.
Coffin turned 34 on Wednesday and is the oldest member of the Steel. She heads off former Australian international Megan Dehn by seven months and has almost two years on Megan Hutton.
Shooter Julianna Naoupu is the baby of the squad. The youngster turned 18 last month.
While Coffin concedes she is ‘‘piling on the years'', the centre feels she is as fit and strong as she was in her 20s and is not ready to be put out to pasture.
‘‘I think, in the past, once you reached around about 29 you went off and had your family. Nowadays there are more opportunities.
‘‘And as women, we are probably developing as well and saying, ‘Hey, you know what? Just because society tells us we should actually be having our families now, doesn't mean we can't come back and still play."
Coffin is part of a trio of ageing New Zealand midcourters including Amigene Metcalfe (Magic) and Julie Seymour (Canterbury).
‘‘I'm training smarter now whereas in my early 20s I thought you had to train twice a day and be running around like a headless chicken.
‘‘I don't have a problem staying in bed until 11.30am if I need to, to recover and make sure I'm on top of my game. It is just a matter of managing your time and knowing your body.''
Coffin is based in Auckland and travels through to Invercargill to train, usually three days before a match. It is not ideal but Coffin believes the arrangement suits her better than if she had to take time out of her busy day to train with the Auckland-based side, the Northern Mystics, which practise most days.
The other big selling point was the opportunity to work with coach Robyn Broughton ‘‘You would be silly to pass up an opportunity like that,'' she said.
A veteran of 26 tests, Coffin has ‘‘been there done that'' and her goals include playing well and helping the Steel be successful.
In her more public role with TVNZ she has taken on a new challenge working with TVNZ 7 where she is both presenting and producing.
While in netball you can play on until your skills desert you, in television, it seems, you ‘‘don't have a long shelf life in front of the camera''.
