Teresa Tairi

She has also coached netball for teams from the Cook Islands and in Australia.

She later moved to New Zealand, and attended Auckland Girls Grammar School.

In 2000, she experienced further difficulties, tearing her right knee cartilage, but was able to get back into the national team in the same year.

After moving to Australia in 2009, Tairi began to coach both men's and mixed netball teams playing for New South Wales, a role she continued in until 2020.

In Australia, she works as a Learning and Development Advisor for the Schindler Group.