Toa Tanimo

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Auteletoa Tanimo (born 8 June 1994) [1] is a Samoan New Zealander netball player who plays as a goal attack and goal shoot. [1] She has represented Samoa internationally as part of the Samoa national netball team.

Tanimo is from the villages of Pata Falelatai and Samalaeʻulu on the island of Savaiʻi. [2] She has been playing netball since she was nine. [3] She works as a physical education teacher at Westlake Girls High School in Auckland, New Zealand. [3] [4]

She was first selected for the Samoa national netball team in 2014. [2] She was later in the teams for the 2015 and 2019 Netball World Cups, [3] [2] as well as its bronze medal-winning squad at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. She was selected for the squad for the 2022 PacificAus Sports Netball Series, [5] and captained the team. [6]

In July 2021, she was selected to be Samoa's national player for World Netball's "Voice of the Athlete" Working Group. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Toa Tanimo". Netball Central. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Vaelei Von Dincklage (1 July 2021). "Netball Samoa celebrates national player selection". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Top netters in Samoa WNC side". Fiji Times. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2022– via PressReader.
  4. ↑ "Team keeps in touch via lockdown challenges". Westlake Girls High School. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  5. ↑ Julius Netzler (18 March 2022). "Samoa Represented at PacificAus Sports Netball Series". Samoa Global News. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "Team Samoa Finish Strong with a 71-30 Win Over PNG". Samoa Global News. 26 March 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
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