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National Māori Sports Awards Announces World-Class Finalists
PĀNUI PĀPĀHO / MEDIA
STATEMENT
12 WHIRINGA-Ā-RANGI /
NOVEMBER 2013
2013 National Māori Sports Awards Announces World-Class Finalists
A world-class field of athletes, administrators, coaches and teams will vie for top honours at the 2013 National Māori Sports Awards later this month (November).
The 23rd awards ceremony will be hosted by Te Tohu Taakaro o Aotearoa Charitable Trust at Auckland’s Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau on Saturday November 30 from 5.00 pm.
In 1991, Albie Pryor (Ngāti Awa) established the black-tie extravaganza to promote and encourage Māori in the pursuit of sporting excellence. He later expanded that brief to identify and support young Māori talent so they could achieve at Olympic, Commonwealth and international competitions.
The 2013 National Māori Sports Awards finalists are:
MĀUI TIKITIKI-Ā-TARANGA –
Māori Sports Administrator of the Year:
Raelene
Castle (Ngāpuhi) of Belmore, New South Wales, Australia –
netball, rugby league
Howie Tamati MBE (Ngāti Mutunga)
of New Plymouth – rugby league
Heather Skipworth
(Ngāti Kahungunu) of Napier – multi-sports
TE
TOIHUAREWA – Disabled Māori Sports Person of the
Year:
Cameron Leslie (Ngāpuhi) of Whangārei
– swimming, wheelchair rugby
Holly Robinson (Ngāi
Tahu) of Dunedin – javelin
Maia Marshall Amai (Ngāi
Tūhoe) of Pt England, Auckland – wheelchair
rugby
TE ARATIATIA – Māori Sports
Umpire/Referee of the Year:
Dwayne Paul (Ngāti
Hauā) of Matamata – netball
Glen Warrick Jackson
(Ngāi Tahu) of Tauranga – rugby
Henry Perenara (Ngāti
Rangitihi) of Cronulla, Sydney – rugby
league
NGĀ IKA Ā WHIRO – Māori Sports Team of
the Year:
Māori All Blacks
New Zealand
Māori Rugby League
Aotearoa Māori
Netball
TE MARU Ō TŪMATAUENGA – Māori Sports
Coach of the Year:
Waimarama Taumaunu (Ngāti
Porou) of Wellington – netball
Sean Horan (Ngāi Tahu)
of Tauranga – sevens
Colin Cooper (Ngāti Pūkenga)
of Taranaki – rugby
TE TAMAHINE-Ā-PAPATŪĀNUKU
– Junior Māori Sportswoman of the Year:
Tyla
Nathan-Wong (Ngāpuhi) of Blockhouse Bay, Auckland –
sevens, touch
Te Rongopai Clay (Ngāti Awa, Tūwharetoa
ki Kawerau) of Wellington – golf
Phoenix Karaka
(Ngāti Whātua) of Auckland – netball
TE
TAMA-Ā-RANGINUI – Junior Māori Sportsman of the
Year:
Tai Hikuroa Wynyard (Ngāti Maniapoto,
Ngāpuhi, Tainui) of Waitākere, Auckland –
basketball
Joe Edwards (Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti
Tūwharetoa) of Pakuranga, Auckland – rugby
Matiu
Love-Henry (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Atiawa) of Taupō –
rugby league
HINEAHUONE – Senior Māori
Sportswoman of the Year:
Lisa Carrington (Te
Aitanga-a-Māhaki) of Ōhope, Bay of Plenty –
canoeing
Suzie Bates (Ngāi Tahu) of Dunedin –
cricket
Kayla McAlister (Te Āti Awa) of Auckland –
rugby
TE TAMA-Ā-TANENUIĀRANGI – Senior Māori
Sportsman of the Year:
Brad Rona (Te Āti Awa)
of Glenfield, Auckland – softball
Jason Wynyard
(Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāpuhi, Tainui) of Waitākere, Auckland
– wood chopping
Gillies Kaka (Ngāti Kahungunu,
Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Manawa) of Hawke’s Bay – rugby,
sevens
For more information about the Māori Sports Awards, go to the website: www.maorisportsawards.co.nz
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