Teresa Tairi

Teresa Tairi is a former New Zealand international netball player, born in the Cook Islands, who moved to New Zealand and attended Auckland Girls Grammar School. She first played for the Silver Ferns in 1993, won silver at the 1993 World Games and represented New Zealand 28 times, including the 1999 World Netball Championships, where she again won silver. Her career was interrupted by knee injuries, including torn anterior cruciate ligaments in 1994 and 1997. She played for the Northern Force club from 1998 to 2005 and in 2008 for the Northern Mystics, formed when Force merged with Auckland Diamonds. In 2009 she coached the Cook Islands at the Netball World Youth Cup in Rarotonga, where the team finished sixth, its best result. After moving to Australia she coached men's and mixed teams for Netball New South Wales until 2020.