Azure Anderson

Height: 173cm
Born:
Junior Association: Waikato
High School: Hamilton Girls High School

Previous NBL clubs – Waikato Wizards (2015)

Won the 2012 National Secondary Schools title with Hamilton Girls HS. Won her second National title at U19 Nationals in 2015 playing for Waikato.

Attended Hamilton Girls High for 2 years and was also home schooled for a year and a half in France.

After high school returned to France for 4 years and played Perpignan Le Soler Métropole Basket (2016-2018).

Then played for Cugnaux for a season and a half (2018-2020).

During her time in France Anderson studied French for a year and also got her French Patisserie diploma.

Returned to New Zealand at the beginning of 2020 and currently in her second year of midwifery at AUT. 

Father Vinnie Anderson is a former Kiwi Rugby League international.

Olivia Bell

Height: 187cm
Born: September 20, 1997
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Girls High School

Previous NBL clubs – Harbour Breeze (2017-18 and 2020-21)

Attended the Tall Ferns Camp earlier in 2021.

A member of the Harbour Breeze 2020 Sal’s NBL Championship winning team.

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.

Mackenzie Chatfield

Height: 170cm
Born: July 13, 2004
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Girls High School

Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

A Year 12 at Westlake Girls High School Chatfield is member of the school’s Premiers Touch, Netball and Volleyball teams as well as the basketball team.

Tiarna Clarke

Height: 168cm
Born: February 5, 1999
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Girls High School

Previous NBL clubs – Harbour Breeze (2015,17 & 2020-21)

A member of the Harbour Breeze 2020 Sal’s NBL Championship winning team. Scored 16 points in the Grand Final win against Waikato.

Played for NZ Select at the FIBA 3×3 Women World Series in China in August 2019.

Named to the 2019 New Zealand Tertiary Championships All-Star 5 after helping AUT to runners-up spot.

Clarke spent one-year playing NCAA Division I at University of Northern Colorado (2017-2018). Played all 32 games for UNC, alongside Krystal Leger-Walker, 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.

Florence Dallow

Height: 185cm
Born: 6 February, 2004
Junior Association: North Harbour

High School: Epsom Girls Grammar School

Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

A Year 13 at Epsom Girls Grammar School.

Named to the Tournament Team at 2021 Aon U17 National Championships.

Ella Fotu

Height: 177cm
Born: June 1, 1996
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Rangitoto College

Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2013-15, 2019-21)

A member of the Harbour Breeze 2020 Sal’s NBL Championship winning team averaging 10.1ppg.

Along with Zara Jillings and Brooke Blair, the only players to have been part of the Breeze championship winning teams in 2014 and 2020.

 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.

Became a full time firefighter in July 2021.

Tessa Gush

Height: 1.75cm
Born: 9 March, 1999
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Rangitoto College

Previous NBL Clubs: Rookie

A regular member of the Dolphinz club on Auckland’s North Shore.

Has represented Auckland University at both 3×3 and 5×5 Tertiary National Championships winning a 5×5 title in 2019.

Has a Bachelor of Engineering degree with honours from Auckland University.

Jazzmyne Kailahi-Fulu

Height: 1.85cm
Born: March 21, 2002
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: St Mary’s College, Ponsonby

Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2018 & 2020-21)

A member of the Harbour Breeze 2020 Sal’s NBL Championship winning team – averaged 7.0 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.

Played for Williston State Junior College in 2020-21. Named to the All-Regional Team after averaging a team high 8.1rpg plus 14.8ppg.

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.

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.

Named to the 2020 Junior Tall Ferns to Tour China before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the trip.

Ash Kelman-Poto

Height: 185cm
Born:
Junior Association: Auckland
High School: Mt Albert Grammar School

Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2012-13 and 2019-20)

A member of the Harbour Breeze 2020 Sal’s NBL Championship winning team. Named Grand Final MVP after an 18 points, 14 rebounds and 6 steals haul in the final against Waikato Wizards. Also named to the All-Star Five.

Attended North Idaho Junior College (2011-12) followed by two years at East Central University (NCAA Division II).

Older sister of Southland Sharks player Dom Kelman-Poto.

Cut short her 2021 season with Brisbane club Red City Roar in Australian NBL1 League after undergoing ankle surgery.

Previously played three seasons with Gladstone Port in the Queensland Basketball League.

Lily Murphy

Height: 170cm
Born: November 10, 1993
Junior Association:
High School: Legacy High School, New York

Previous NBL clubs – Capital Swish (2017), Auckland Dream (2018)

A Breeze squad member in 2020 but didn’t make a Sal’s NBL appearance.

Attended high school in the USA.

Played for Gladstone Port in the Queensland Basketball League (QBL) in 2019 playing alongside Ashleigh Kelman-Poto.

Keeley Tini

Height: 180cm
Born: March 2, 2000
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Girls High School

Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2017-present)

A member of the Harbour Breeze 2020 Sal’s NBL Championship winning team Tini averaged 8 points per game.

Tini played a season at Williston State Junior College in 2020/21 and will return to college later this month.

Played all 23 games for Williston averaging a team high 16 points per game.

Averaged 9.6ppg at the 2017 FIBA Oceania U17 Championship in Guam where the team won silver.

Youngest daughter of Jody Cameron.