Anna Cameron (TBC)

Makayla Daysh

Height: 185cm
Born: October 10, 1995
Junior Association: Tauranga City
High School: Tauranga Girls College

Previous NBL Clubs: Rotorua Vols (2012-13) Tauranga City Coasters (2015-18), Waikato Wizards (2020)

Averaged 9.3 points and 9.9 rebounds for the Wizards in 2020.

Daysh, having previously played for Tauranga, was due to play for the Wizards in 2019 but missed the season due to injury.

Played 2 years at Chadron State University, Nebraska (NCAA Division II) from 2014 to 2016.

Matangiroa 'Pep' Flavell

Height: 175cm
Born: September 28, 1997
Junior Association: Rotorua
High School: Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Koutu

Previous NBL Clubs: Harbour Breeze (2019), Waikato Wizards (2020)

Debuted for the Wizards against Auckland Dream, November 2020.

Debuted on the Tall Ferns team that finished runners-up at the 2019 William Jones Cup.

Following high school Flavell spent a year at Otago University before attending Midland Community College in Texas for two years. After graduating from Midland she moved on to Houston Baptist University for the 2018/19 NCAA season.

Played for Harbour in the 2019 WBC season helping the Breeze reach the Grand Final. Prior to that had played for Rotorua Vols.

Grace Gordon

Height: 162cm
Born: April 26, 2001
Junior Association: N/A
High School: Box Hill Senior Secondary College, Melbourne

Previous NBL Clubs: Capital Swish (2021)

Played three games in the 2020 Sal’s NBL for Capital Swish.

Originally from Feilding, Gordon grew up in Melbourne playing all her junior basketball in Australia for Hawthorn.

Spent two years at Emporia State University (NCAA Division II) in Kansas.

Breana Jones

Height: 178cm
Born: January 28, 199s
Junior Association: Westport
High School: Fraser High School

Previous NBL Clubs: Rotorua Vols (2012), Auckland (2016), Waikato Country (2017), Waikato Wizards (2015 & 2021)

Spent I year at Maryknoll High School, Honululu before playing NCAA Division I at University of Hawaii in 2014-15.

Earned Tournament Team honours at Secondary Schools National Championships in 2012.

Played for NZ at the 3×3 FIBA World Championships in Guanczhou, Chine in 2016.

Named to the All-Star 5 at the 2017 National Tertiary Championships playing for University of Auckland.

Hana Lacey-Rameka

Height: 184cm
Born:
Junior Association: Rotorua
High School: St Peter’s School, Cambridge

Previous NBL Clubs: Rookie

Current NZ age group triallist (U17)

Began her representative career in Rotorua before moving to the Waikato in 2020.

Charlisse Leger-Walker

Height: 174cm
Born: September 15, 2001
Junior Association: Waikato
High School: St Peter’s School, Cambridge

Previous NBL Clubs Waikato Wizards (2014-19)

Debuted for the Tall Ferns at 2018 Commonwealth Games where she became the youngest player ever to play for the New Zealand Tall Ferns at 16 years, 202 days. Averaged 11.3 points and 4.2 rebounds per game and was joint top scorer with 18 points in the bronze medal game against Canada.

Leger-Walker has played a considerable amount of age-group international basketball. Played each year from 2015 an in 2019 she was named to the Tournament Team at the FIBA 3×3 U18 World Cup in Mongolia where the New Zealand Team claimed silver.

She won multiple New Zealand junior titles with both St Peter’s School, Cambridge and Waikato Basketball. Remarkably she appeared in the Grand Final at Secondary Schools Nationals in all five years in high school winning the championship on four occasions.

Scored 49 points in her first two games for Washington State University in December, 2020.

Went on to score in double figures in all but two games and 20+ on 12 occasions. Led the Pac 12 in points scored (407) and steals per game (2.33).

Named Pac 12 Freshman of the Year.

Mother Leanne attended two Olympic Games with the Tall Ferns and sister Krystal has also represented the Tall Ferns.

Krystal Leger-Walker

Height: 175cm
Born: September 29, 1997
Junior Association: Waikato
High School: St Peter’s School, Cambridge

Previous NBL Clubs Waikato Wizards (2015-16 & 2019)

Following high school spent 3 years at University of Northern Colorado winning a Big Sky Conference title in 2018.

After a redshirt year played 24 games for Washington State University averaging 9.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game.

Has already made 112 NCAA Division I appearances, starting on 90 occasions.

Debuted for the Tall Ferns in 2014 and has made 13 appearances in the black singlet.

Mother Leanne attended two Olympic Games with the Tall Ferns and sister Charlisse has also represented the Tall Ferns.

Tannika Leger-Walker

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Junior Association: Waikato
High School: St Peter’s School, Cambridge

Previous NBL Clubs: Rookie

Named MVP at the 2021 Aon U15 National Championships after leading Waikato to the title.

Youngest of the three Leger-Walker sisters.

Tash Lenden

Height: 175cm
Born: February 6, 1981
Junior Association: Bay of Plenty/Waikato
High School: Tauhara College, Taupo

Previous NBL Clubs: Waikato Wizards (2009-21)

Tash Lenden has played for over a decade and is one of the longest serving players in the NBL.

Following high school went to Nebraska Community College and Southwest Baptist University, Missouri (NCAA Div II) where she played 22 games for the Bearcats in the 2002-03 season.

Played a season for the Tall Ferns in 2014.

Played for New Zealand at the FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup in Mongolia in 2017.

Husband Puke Lenden is a former NBL player.

Kayla Manuirirangi

Height: 157cm
Born: September 19, 1997
Junior Association: Taranaki
High School: New Plymouth Girls High School

Previous NBL Clubs: Taranaki Thunder

Graduated from Tulane University, New Orleans (NCAA Division I) in 2020 after playing 119 games for the Greenwave. Ended her career tied for ninth at Tulane in 3-pointers made all-time with 157.

In 2014 led New Plymouth Girls High to the double winning the National 3×3 title and the National Secondary Schools Championship – named MVP at that championship.

Captained the Junior Tall Ferns at the 2014 FIBA U19 Oceania Championships in Fiji having played for a number of New Zealand age-group teams previously.

Hailey Moala

Height: 180cm
Born:
Junior Association: Counties Manukau
High School: Church College

Previous NBL Clubs: Auckland Dream

Played for the 2019 National Championship winning Auckland Dream team alongside sisters Nat Taylor and Kalani Purcell.

Following high school attended the University of Tennessee at Martin before playing a year at Alderson Broaddhus University, West Virginia (2010-11).

Followed college with a year in England playing for Sheffield Hatters alongside sister Charmian.

Sydney Neale

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Junior Association: Waikato
High School: Hamilton Girls High School

Previous NBL Clubs:

Neale has won two U17 National titles playing for Waikato (2020 and 2021).

Arielle Parai

Height: 175cm
Born: April 2, 1986
Junior Association: Auckland/Wellington
High School: Church College/Avondale College

Previous NBL Clubs: Capital Swish (2019), Waikato Country, Waikato Wizards (2021)

Won the  Secondary Schools National Championships with Church College and Avondale College. Named MVP at the 2004 Tournament – top scored for Avondale College with 18 points in the Grand Final win against Otago Girls High School.

Following high school Parai attended Salt Lake Community College (2004-5).

The former Junior Tall Fern and New Zealand Maori representative played for Capital Swish in 2019. She scored 16 points in the Division 2 Grand Final against Wellington last year.

Breeje Schuler

Height: 175cm
Born: November 15, 2003
Junior Association: Te Aroha
High School: Te Aroha College/St Peter’s School, Cambridge

Previous NBL Clubs: Waikato (2019)

Played for Te Aroha College at 2019 Secondary Schools Nationals. Te Aroha finished runners-up to Kavanagh College with Breeje named to the Tournament Team alongside older sister Dejaan.

Named to the New Zealand team to contest the 2020 FIBA U16 Asia Championships but the event was cancelled due to Covid pandemic.

Was named MVP at 2021 U19 National Championships after leading Waikato to the title.

Tahlia Tupea (TBC)

Height: 170cm
Born: June 1, 1997

Previous NBL Clubs: Rookie

Penrith born, with Tainui-Ngāti Tipa descent, Tupaea was the 36^th pick by the Minnesota Lynx in the 2017 WNBA draft.

She became the second youngest debutant in the history of the Australian Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) when she took the court for the Sydney University Flames in 2015 at 15 years and 133 days. Two years later she was a key member of the Flames WNBL championship winning team.

She has since gone on to play over 100 WNBL games, most recently for Canberra Capitals in 2020.

Tupaea enjoyed an outstanding junior career playing for Australian teams at three World Championships. She played at the 2014 FIBA U17 World Championships in the Czech Republic and the U19 World Champs in Lithuania (2013) and Russia (2015), winning a bronze medal on both occasions.

Amber Waretini