[3] In early 2018 she was awarded a 12 month contract with the New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team.

[3] Upon her return from Buenos Aires she made her debut for the senior team at the 2018 Dubai tournament[7] Just prior to departure for their pre-camp on the Sunshine Coast for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Kat Whata-Simpkins suffered a hamstring injury, which resulted first in Pouri-Lane being added to the travelling team and when it was confirmed that Whata-Simpkins would not recover in time Tenika Willison was promoted to the initial 12.

After injuries to other players in the warm-up to the final against Australia Pouri-Lane was promoted to the playing 12, coming on in the last moments of the game to assist the team in winning the gold medal.

[10] She was selected for the New Zealand Women's Rugby Sevens team for the Tokyo Olympics which went on to win the gold medal.

[14][15] She later won a silver medal at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.

[16][17][18] After captain Sarah Hirini 2023 was unable to play for the rest of the 2023–24 World Rugby SVNS Series after rupturing a anterior cruciate ligament in the second game of the first tournament of the season in Dubai on 2–3 December Pouri-Lane took over the captaincy of the Black Ferns for the reminder of the season, during which she led them to winning the Sevens league title.

[20] On 20 June 2024 it was announced that she had been selected as a member of the New Zealand Women’s Rugby Sevens team for the Paris Olympics.