Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa Set To Change the Face of Women’s Basketball in New Zealand

About The League

The new Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa professional league has been lauded as "massive" for women’s basketball in New Zealand. Tauihi means “to soar” in Te Reo Māori, a theme that will run through the competition. Made up of five regional teams the Southern Hoiho, based in Dunedin represents the Lower South.

The new league, which replaces the old women’s National Basketball League, will put women on equal pay footing with the men’s NBL.

The Leagues GM, Maree Taylor says “Tauihi will be a league that exists to elevate the status of women’s basketball, to help take it to the next level in Aotearoa and beyond”. “It will be a unique competition which epitomises basketball’s uplifting energy, and which inspires the next generation of young kiwi women to aim higher, both on and off the court”

Yellow-eyed penguins / hoiho are one of the rarest penguins in the world and are only found in New Zealand. The Southern Hoiho representing the Lower South of Aotearoa are proud to embody the agility, speed and power of the Hoiho!