Brittany Richards

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 180cm
Born: April 10, 1999
Junior Association: Otago
High School: St Hilda’s Collegiate

Previous NBL Clubs – Otago Gold Rush (2018 and 2019)

Played for the 2018 Otago Gold Rush WBC Championship winning team.

Following high school Richards spent a season (2016-17) at Gillette College playing alongside twin sister Zoe. She then played three seasons at University of Alaska Fairbanks where she made 70 appearances for the Nanooks.

Named to the Conference (Great Northwest Athletic Conference) All-Academic Team in both her Junior and Senior (2019-20) years.

Twin sister Zoe is playing for Otago Gold Rush.

Gemma Etheredge

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 170cm
Born: August 15, 1992
Junior Association: North Canterbury
High School: Rangiora High School

Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

Gemma Etheredge (nee Hazeldine) has played club basketball for North Canterbury for a number of years but is best known as a Canterbury Tactix netball representative.

She was called into the Southern Steel squad as an interim replacement player in 2020. Etheredge had not played elite netball since 2016 having taken time away to start a family – she has two children.

Kat Jones

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 179cm
Born: August 18, 1977
Junior Association: Otago
High School: St Hilda’s Collegiate/ Logan Park High School, Dunedin

Previous NBL clubs – Nelson Sparks

A former Junior Tall Fern, Jones was named to the WBC First Team in 2011.

A member of the 2012 Nelson Sparks Championship winning team in 2012.

In 2019 played for North Canterbury in WBC Division 2.

Wife of former Tall Black Phill Jones.

Tiana Placid

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 178cm
Born: August 30, 1997
Junior Association: North Canterbury
High School: St Margaret’s College, Christchurch

Previous NBL Clubs – North Canterbury

First season playing for the Wildcats. A talented sportswoman Placid has represented Canterbury at Water Polo and netball in addition to basketball.

Terai-Ma-Teata Elia

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 178cm
Born: October 2,1992
Junior Association: Taranaki
High School: New Plymouth Girls High School

Previous NBL clubs – Taranaki Thunder (2009-13), Canterbury Wildcats (2016 and 2019)

Elia (née Sadler) played at Crowder Junior College (2012-13) before playing 55 games in her two seasons at Arkansas University.

Returned from the States in 2016 helping Canterbury Wildcats win a WBC title that year.

‘T’ was a member of the Cook Islands team that won gold at the FIBA Polynesian Cup in Samoa in 2018. Won a 3×3 silver medal with the Cook Islands at the 2019 Pacific Games.

Tessa Morrison

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height:173cm
Born: August 30, 1997
Junior Association: Canterbury 
High School: 
Highest Representative Honour: Ashburton College/Christchurch Girls High School

Previous NBL Clubs – Wildcats (2013-present)

A seasoned performer for the Wildcats, Tessa first played for the Wildcats as a 15-year old.

She averaged 7.5 points a game in the 2019 WBC.

In 2014 played for the New Zealand U20 team.

Morrison was a member of both the 2016 and 2017 Wildcats WBC Championship winning teams.

Played at NCAA Division II basketball at Southern New Hampshire University 2016-2018.

Graduated from Lincoln University with a degree in psychology.

Shea Crotty

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 163cm
Born: April 23, 1992
Junior Association: Canterbury
High School: Marian College

Previous NBL clubs –Wildcats

The 2014 Tall Fern has been a regular member of the Wildcats squad since 2012.

Crotty was a member of the 2016 Wildcats WBC Championship winning team.

In 2017 she played a season in Melbourne where she won a Big V Championship with Sunbury Jets. The Jets were coached by former Tall Ferns coach Kennedy Kereama.

Lauryn Hippolite

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 174cm
Born: March 5, 2000
Junior Association: Tasman/Canterbury
High School: Waimea College/Middleton Grange School

Previous NBL clubs – Nelson Sparks (2015-16), Wildcats (2019)

Played on the New Zealand team that won silver at the 2017 FIBA Oceania Championships in Guam averaging 9.6ppg.

Played NCAA Division II basketball at Hawaii Pacific University in 2018-19.

Named to the All-Star Five at the 2019 U23 Nationals after helping Canterbury to the bronze medal position.

Hippolite is on a basketball scholarship at Lincoln University.

Rosalia Samia

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 172cm
Born: March 19, 2001
Junior Association: Hawkes Bay
High School: Napier Girls High School

Previous NBL clubs – Taranaki Thunder (2018), Wildcats (2019).

Rosalia, a former New Zealand age-group international, was a rookie with the Wildcats in 2019 after shifting south from Hawkes Bay to take up a scholarship at Lincoln University (2019-present).

Played at the 2017 FIBA U16 Asian Championship in India where New Zealand finished 4^th.

She captained the Napier Girls High School team that finished 9^th at the 2018 Secondary Schools National Championships.

Samia is on a basketball scholarship at Lincoln University and younger sister Melika is playing for NZ Select.

Francesca Edmondson

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 184cm
Born: April 18,1991
Junior Association: Canterbury
High School: Christchurch Girls High School

Previous NBL clubs –Wildcats

Edmondson spent three years at New Jersey Science and Technology University on a volleyball scholarship (2012-2014).

Edmondson was a member of both the 2016 and 2017 Wildcats WBC Championship winning teams. Named MVP of the League in 2016.

Played for NZ Select v China B in 2016.

Missed the 2019 season due to injury.

Sister of Tall Fern Toni Farnworth.

Sapphire Wairau

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 173cm
Born: November 7, 1999
Junior Association: Canterbury 
High School: Christchurch Girls High School 

Previous NBL clubs –  Canterbury Wildcats

Wairau was a member of both the 2017 Wildcats WBC Championship winning team whilst still at CGHS.

Isabella Luhetoa

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 178cm
Born: December 1, 2001
Junior Association: Canterbury
High School: Christchurch Girls High School

Previous NBL clubs –Rookie

Has progressed through the ranks of Canterbury age-group basketball

Millie Knight

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats 
Height: 184cm
Born: December 30, 2001
Junior Association: Canterbury
High School: Rangi Ruru School

Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

Has progressed through the ranks of Canterbury age-group basketball

Isabelle Cook

Club: Alloyfold Canterbury Wildcats
Height: 184cm
Born: July 31,2001
Junior Association: Taranaki Country
High School: Opunake High School/Sacred Heart Girls College, New Plymouth

Previous NBL Clubs: Taranaki Thunder (2017-2019)

Debuted for the Wildcats against Waikato Wizards, November 2020.

Played for the Thunder team that finished runners-up to Canterbury Wildcats in the WBC 2017 Grand Final.

Represented New Zealand at the 2017 FIBA Asian Cup in India and the 2018 FIBA U17 World Cup in Belarus.

Won the ‘A’ Secondary Schools National title with Opunake High School in 2017. Named Tournament MVP at the Championships.

Played for Sacred Heart Girls College, New Plymouth at the 2019 ‘AA’ Secondary Schools National championship and named to the Tournament Team.