During Labour Weekend Rotorua was the place to be for Māori sports enthusiasts.
While the New Zealand Māori Rugby League National Tuakana Tournament was on at Rotorua International Stadium, just down the road, at the Smallbone Park hockey turf, hockey players from all over New Zealand competed in the Aotearoa Māori Hockey Tournament.
There was a wealth of talent on display at the hockey tournament, including former New Zealand representatives and many age-group representative players.
In fact, there were enough rising stars involved to attract women’s Black Sticks coach Mark Hager to watch the finals yesterday.
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Senior Wahine AoteaGracen Keyes-KumeroaRachel Peck TairawhitiAwhina RickardMaia RickardMaika Akroyd TaitokerauBrodie CochraneChenae PhillipsGabrielle (Garby) SmithJade Litchfield TakitimuTeegan Geary Tamaki MakaurauAimee MitchellClaudia HanhamKelsey TenetiNikayla BradleyTayla WeatherlyTyla Goodsell-Matthews Te WaipounamuHayley CoxRuby BakerTyla Toheriri
NZ Maori Hockey would like to acknowledge and thank One Foundation for their continuous support and grant funding. Year after year One Foundation supports NZ Maori Hockey with tournament funding
2x teams per Rohe (1x Tane, 1x Wahine) Max. 10 players per team 2x pools of 4 (total of 5 games per team – pool play, crossovers, finals) 25min games
