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Full name | Masuisuimatamaalii Tauaua-Pauaraisa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Motoʻotua, Samoa | 30 October 1987|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (11 st 0 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Lock, Second-row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Masuisuimatamaalii "Sua" Tauaua-Pauaraisa (born 30 October 1987) is a Samoan rugby league and rugby sevens footballer who played for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL Women's Premiership.
She is a New Zealand and Samoa representative in rugby league and a Samoa representative in rugby union and sevens. [1] [2]
Born in Motoʻotua, Samoa, Tauaua-Pauaraisa moved to Auckland when she was 13, where she played rugby union for McAuley High School, Otahuhu, Auckland. In 2010, she moved to Christchurch. [3] [4]
In 2016, she began playing rugby league for the Linwood Keas. [5] On 4 June 2018, Tauaua-Pauaraisa was named in the New Zealand train-on squad. [6]
On 31 July 2018, she signed with the New Zealand Warriors NRL Women's Premiership team. [7] In Round 1 of the 2018 NRL Women's season, she made her debut for the Warriors in a 10–4 win over the Sydney Roosters. [8]
On 13 October 2018, she made her Test debut for New Zealand in a 24–26 loss to Australia at Mt Smart Stadium. [9]
On 22 June 2019, Tauaua-Pauaraisa made her Test debut for Samoa, starting at second-row in a 8–46 loss to New Zealand. [10]
Tauaua-Pauaraisa led the Manusina XVs side at the Oceania Rugby Championship in 2018. [11] [12]
Tauaua-Pauaraisa played for Canterbury in the Farah Palmer Cup. She competed at the Vailima Marist International Sevens in Samoa with the Christchurch Women's Rugby team in 2019. [13] In 2021, she was named Tasman Mako FPC Player of the Year. [14]
She led the Manusina side when they won their first Oceania title in 2023. [15] [16] In 2024, she made her fifth start for the Melbourne Rebels in the Super Rugby Women's competition. [17]
In May 2024, she scored two tries for her side before being sent off the field against Tonga. [18] [19] She was cleared to play for Samoa in the final round of the Oceania Rugby Championship after she was initially cited for a high tackle in the match against Tonga. [20] In September, she was selected in the Samoan side that competed at the WXV 3 competition in Dubai. [21]
She captained the Manusina side to the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup in England. [22] [23]
In July 2019, she captained the Samoa rugby sevens team at the 2019 Pacific Games. [24] [25]
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