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Representative team

U18 Girls

Rotorua's U18 Girls representative team, pictured at the 2026 Nationals.

Rotorua players and staff pose with medals behind the U18 Nationals signs.

Team overview

The U18 Girls team represents Rotorua in under-18 representative basketball. The team competed at the 2026 Nationals, and photographs from that campaign are shown below.

Pathway

Trials and selection

Rotorua's representative programmes run across the school year. Open trials for U12, U14, U16 and U18 take place after Labour Weekend. The pathways below are how RBA has described each age group's programme; dates for each new season are announced by RBA.

U16 and U18 pathway

  1. Term 4

    Open trials and development squads

    Open trials take place after Labour Weekend. Up to 24 athletes are identified for a Development Squad, working on skills and understanding with their appointed coaches.

  2. Term 1

    Easter tournament

    U16 and U18 squads use the Easter tournament as their final trials to select the team or teams for the Mid-North Zone Day.

  3. Term 2

    Mid-North qualifiers

    Selected teams compete at the Mid-North Zone Day and the Mid-North Qualifiers for Nationals.

  4. Nationals

    Basketball New Zealand Nationals

    Qualified teams go on to represent Rotorua at the Basketball New Zealand Nationals.

Tournament news and results

Tournament results
EventYearResult
2026 Nationals20263rd place. Marewa Waerea-Tamai (Te Kura o Te Koutu) named in the Girls U18 National Tournament All-Star Five.

2026 Nationals

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