Brooke Blair

Height: 1.73m

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.

Ella Fotu

Height: 176cm

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.

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.

Jazzmine Kailahi-Fulu

Height: 1.83cm

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

Height: 1.86m

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.

Keeley Tini

Height: 182cm

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.