[1] Karaitiana played college basketball at the University of Hawaiʻi for the Rainbow Wahine in Honolulu, Hawaii.
[1] After a two-year absence and giving birth to her first child, Karaitiana returned to the league signing with the Melbourne Boomers for the 2020 season.
[5] There, Karaitiana joins several of her Tall Ferns teammates all playing under national team head coach, Guy Molloy.
She would once again represent the Gems at the 2011 Under-19 World Championship in Chile where they narrowly missed out on the bronze medal, placing fourth.
Karaitiana has since switched her allegiances to her country of birth and began representing the New Zealand Tall Ferns in 2018.