Olivia Bell
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 187cm
Born: September 20, 1997
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Girls High School
Previous NBL clubs – Harbour Breeze
Following high school Bell spent two years playing at North Dakota State College of Science followed by one year at Peru State College, Nebraska playing NAIA Division I basketball.
In her freshman year Bell played 32 games for North Dakota as the Wildcats posted a 29-4 record winning both their conference and regional titles.
Brooke Blair
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 172cm
Born: October 8, 1994
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Rangitoto College
Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2012-15 and 2018)
Was a member of the team that won the William Jones Cup in 2018. Recalled to the team for the 2019 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Auckland.
Blair attended Rangitoto College, played representative basketball for North Harbour age-group teams and Harbour Breeze, and then spent 5 years in the States. She spent two years at Northeastern Junior College, Colorado before moving on to Idaho State University where she was a standout shooting guard for the Bengals.
After graduating from Idaho State she played two seasons for Rockhampton Cyclones (2018 and 2019) in the Queensland Basketball League. At Rockhampton in 2019 she shot 42% (64/154) from beyond the arc and 81% (39/48) from the free-throw line.
Played in the Tall Ferns Showcase Game in August.
Tiarna Clarke
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 168cm
Born: February 5, 1999
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Girls High School
Previous NBL clubs – Harbour Breeze
Played for NZ Select at the FIBA 3×3 Women World Series in China in August 2019.
Clarke spent one-year playing NCAA Division I at University of Northern Colorado (2017-2018). Played all 32 games for UNC helping them win the Big Sky Conference.
Clarke was the youngest member of the NZ Select team that played against China B in 2016.
Also in 2016 played on the NZ team that claimed silver at the U18 FIBA Oceania Championships in Fiji.
Played for New Zealand at the FIBA 3×3 U18 World Cup in Hungary in 2015.
Ella Fotu
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 177cm
Born: June 1, 1996
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Rangitoto College
Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2013-15 and 2019)
Fotu was a member of the Tall Ferns team that finished runners-up at the 2019 William Jones Cup. Played just one game at the 2019 FIBA Asia Cup in India due to illness. Played at the 2019 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Auckland.
Debuted for Harbour Breeze in 2013 as a 16 year-old. A member of the Breeze team that finished runners-up in the 2019 WBC season, she averaged 8.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.9 steals during the season.
Played for various New Zealand age group teams including the team that attended the FIBA U18 3×3 World Cup in 2013 in Indonesia.
Sister of Tall Blacks Isaac and Dan Fotu, Ella spent three years at college in the States winning an NCAA Division II PacWest Conference Championship playing for Hawaii Pacific University Sharks in 2017.
Played in the Tall Ferns Showcase Game in August.
Zara Jillings
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 178cm
Born: May 30, 1998
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Girls High School
Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze
Jillings graduated from Westlake Girls in 2016 and didn’t miss a game in her three years at Fordham University making 100 consecutive appearances for the Rams.
In her sophomore year at Fordham in 2018-19 she played alongside Kendell Heremaia and Mary Goulding as the Rams won their second-ever Atlantic 10 Championship.
Decided to forgo her final year at Fordham (2020-21) to complete her Masters degree on-line and begin her working career in New Zealand.
In 2016 played for the Junior Tall Ferns and represented New Zealand at the FIBA U18 3×3 World Cup in Kazakhstan.
Jillings was a member of the 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medal winning team having debuted in 2017.
Played in the Tall Ferns Showcase Game in August.
Jazzmyne Kailahi-Fulu
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 183cm
Born: March 21, 2002
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: St Mary’s College, Ponsonby
Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2018)
Played on the New Zealand team at the 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup in Belarus where she was the team’s leading rebounder pulling down 9 rebounds per game. She also averaged 6.1ppg.
Played for Harbour Breeze in 2018 averaging 5.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.
In 2019 Kailahi-Fulu was named to the Tournament Team at the U19 National Championships where she helped Harbour win the title.
Also named to Tournament Team at Secondary Schools Nationals in 2019 where St Mary’s finished third.
Played in the Tall Ferns Showcase Game in August.
She was named to the 2020 Junior Tall Ferns to Tour China before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the trip.
Ashleigh Kelman-Poto
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 186cm
Born: December 30, 1991
Junior Association: Auckland
High School: Mt Albert Grammar School
Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2012-13 and 2019)
Attended North Idaho Junior College (2011-12) followed by two years at East Central University (NCAA Division II).
Kelman-Poto played for Gladstone City Power in the Queensland Basketball League in 2018 and 2019.
She doubled up in 2019 when also playing for Harbour Breeze averaging 13.2 points and 8.2 rebounds over six games in the WBC. In the Grand Final against Auckland Dream she recorded 18 points and 9 rebounds.
Older sister of Southland Sharks 3×3 player Dom Kelman-Poto.
Played in the Tall Ferns Showcase Game in August.
Jessica Moors
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 180cm
Born: December 18, 2002
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Girls High School
Previous NBL clubs – Rookie
A Year 13 student at Westlake Girls HS – Premier Basketball team captain.
Played for the silver medal winning New Zealand team at the 2019 FIBA U17 Oceania Championships in New Caledonia.
Named to the Tournament Team at 2019 U19 Nationals where Harbour claimed the title.
She was named to the 2020 Junior Tall Ferns to Tour China before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the trip.
Waiaria Putaranui
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 180cm
Born: April 12, 1997
Junior Association: Waikato
High School: Sacred Heart Girls College/St Peter’s School, Cambridge
Previous NBL Clubs: Waikato Wizards, Harbour Breeze
Played for St Peter’s at 2014 and 2015 Secondary Schools National Championships, winning the title in 2015.
Following high school went to Bossier Parish Community College playing 60 games during her two years with the Cavaliers (2017-2019).
In October 2012 Waiaria, then aged 15, was one of a group of Sacred Heart Girls College students that rescued a woman after the mobility scooter she was riding plunged into the Waikato river.
Keeley Tini
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 180cm
Born: March 2, 2000
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Girls High School
Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2017-present)
Averaged 9.6ppg at the 2017 FIBA Oceania U17 Championship in Guam where the team won silver.
Played at Hutchinson Junior College in Kansas in 2018-19.
Daughter of Jody Cameron.
Luye Murphy
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 180cm
Born:
Junior Association:
High School: Legacy High School, New York
Previous NBL clubs – Capital Swish (2017), Auckland Dream (2018)
Attended high school in the USA.
Played for Gladstone Port in the Queensland Basketball League (QBL) in 2019 playing alongside Ashleigh Kelman-Poto.
Safenunuivao Te Nana-Williams
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 165cm
Born:
Junior Association: Auckland
High School: St Mary’s College, Ponsonby
Previous NBL clubs – Rookie
A Year 13 student at St Mary’s College, Ponsonby.
Played for St Mary’s College at 2019 National Secondary Schools Tournament where St Mary’s placed 3rd.
Twin sister of Leata.
Leata Te Nana-Williams
Club: Harbour Breeze
Height: 165cm
Born:
Junior Association: Auckland
High School: St Mary’s College, Ponsonby
Previous NBL clubs – Rookie
A Year 13 student at St Mary’s College, Ponsonby.
Played for St Mary’s College at 2019 National Secondary Schools Tournament where St Mary’s placed 3rd.
Twin sister of Safena.