No fewer than 24 Harbour athletes are currently in the USA preparing for the 2021-22 American collegiate season that commences at the end of this month.

Taine Murray, Sean Murphy, Kiani Saxon, Leo Wenhman and Jessica Moors are all freshman experiencing the life of a student-athlete for the first time.

On the other hand Tera Reed and Sam Waardenburg are ‘veterans’ of the American system. Both are taking the advantage of the NCAA rule allowing those athletes that endured the Covid interrupted 2020-21 season to play an additional year.

Below is a guide to who our 24 athletes are and where they are playing. We will be providing regular updates of their progress during the season.

We should also note that Georgia Perrott-Hunt is an assistant coach at Tiffin University combining her basketball duties with masters studies.

NCAA Division I Men 

Dan Fotu (Senior at St Mary’s College, California)

Dan hasn’t missed a game in his three seasons with the Gaels playing in all 92 games – 47 as a starter. Barring injury Dan will soon join an elite group of athletes to have played over a hundred NCAA Division I games. Only 11 Men have previously reached that mark and 6 are from Harbour (that’s a story for another time).

Made his Tall Blacks debut in 2018. Brother Isaac is also a Tall Black and sister Ella a Tall Fern and current Platinum Homes Harbour Breeze player .

Career GP 92 GS 47 PPG 5.6

Sam Mennenga (Sophomore at Davidson College)

Enjoyed a successful freshman season at Davidson, starting 20 of 21 games and second on the team in rebounding.

Career GP 21 GS 20 PPG 6.0 RPG 5.0

James Moors (Sophomore at Colorado State University)

Another former Westlake Boys High and North Harbour representative he played all 28 games for CSU earning a start on 21 occasions. 

Sister Jess is also at Colorado State.

Career GP 28 GS 21 PPG 5.9 RPG 3.5

Taine Murray (Freshman at University of Virginia)

Averaged 17.5ppg for Auckland Huskies in 2020 NBL season. 

Made his Tall Blacks debut against Canada in Sydney in 2019.

Taine finished his high school career with two Secondary School National championship titles with Rosmini College and an U19 National title playing for North Harbour.

 Kruz Perrott-Hunt (Junior at University of South Dakota)

One of three players to start every game in 2020-21 for USD, averaged 7 points and 2.2 assists per game.

The former Rosmini College and North Harbour guard played for Nelson Giants in the NBL in 2019. 

Kruz made his Tall Blacks debut against Jordan in the Asia World Cup Qualifier in 2018.

Career GP 47 GS 32 PPG 4.5 

Sam Waardenburg (Senior at University of Miami)

The rangy forward from Rangitoto College and North Harbour missed all of last season at Miami due to a foot injury. Sam has played 83 games for the Hurricanes in the tough ACC Conference.

Looks set to join Dan Fotu in the ‘100 Division I Appearances Club.’ 

Career GP 83 GS 35 PPG 5.0 RPG 4.1

NCAA Division II

William Heather (Junior at Dallas Baptist University)

Will enjoyed a strong sophomore season in 2020-21 leading the Lone Star Conference in blocks. He started all 22 games for the Patriots averaging 10.1ppg.

Career GP 45 GS 22 PPG 7.4

 Sean Murphy (Freshman at University of Nebraska Kearney)

Sean is about to embark on his first season at UNK having played for the Auckland Huskies in the 2021 Sal’s NBL season

Marvin Williams-Dunn (Sophomore at Ouachita Baptist University)

Marvin played all 17 games for OBU Tigers last season starting on 11 occasions. Shot a very hand 43% (17/40) from beyond the arc.

Career GP 17 GS 11 PPG 3.6

NAIA Division I

Reihana Maxwell-Topia (Sophomore at St Francis University, Illinois)

Reihana established himself as a regular last season playing 22 of 24 games for the Fighting Saints. 

Career GP 22 GS 4 PPG 2.9

Junior College

Kiani Saxon (Freshman at Louisiana State University, Eunice)

Played for the Auckland Huskies in 2021 and also represented Harbour at U23 Nationals. The former Liston College forward will be playing his first season for the Bengals.

Leo Wenham (Freshman at Southeast Community College)

Like Kiani, Leo played for Harbour U23’s in 2021 after graduating from Rosmini College the previous year. The 6’7” forward is in his debut season with the Storm 

NCAA Division I Women

Tayla Dalton (Sophomore at St Mary’s College, California)

Tayla played all 26 games for Saint Mary’s Gaels averaging 17 minutes per game last season and was second on the team in steals (26). Her season high was 18 points against Nevada in December.

Career GP 26 GS 3 PPG 4.7 RPG 1.5

Jess Moors (Freshman at Colorado State University)

The former Westlake Girls and North Harbour representative is playing at the same university as her brother James. Played on the Harbour Breeze 2020 NBL Championship winning team.

Akienne-Tera Reed (5^th Year Senior at University of Southern California) 

Tera sits third on the NZ all-time Women’s Division I points scoring list (1,466 points) behind Erin Rooney and Megan Compain. After an outstanding 4-year career at Virginia Commonwealth University Tera has transferred to USC for her final collegiate year. In the 2020-21 season averaged 11.5 points, 5 rebounds and a career high 3.7 assists per game. She led the team’s scoring in her first three years at VCU.

Career GP 111 GS 107 PPG 13.2 RPG 4.7

Emme Shearer (Sophomore at University of Portland)

Emme Shearer, named to the WCC All-Freshman Team after finishing fourth on the team for scoring (6.5ppg) and third in steals (1.5spg) in 2020-21.

She played all 27 games for the Pilots getting a start on 14 occasions and averaging 20 minutes per game. Scored a season high 16 against St Mary’s.

Career GP 27 GS 14 PPG 7.0 RPG 2.0 

NCAA Division II

Chanel Brodeur-Muir (Senior at St Thomas Aquinas College, New York)

Chanel played all 14 games for the Spartans last season, starting on 4 occasions.

She has totalled 47 games for St Thomas Aquinas.

Career GP 47 GS 4 PPG 1.8

Hannah Wentworth (Sophomore at Eckerd College)

Hannah played her freshman season at Utah State University Eastern where she played all 20 games with 3 starts averaging 9.4ppg.

Interestingly Eckerd College Tritons play their season opener against the Chile national team on November 3.

Career GP 21 GS 3 PPG 9.1

Tessa Talo-Tomokino (Sophomore at Northeastern State University)

Tessa started 12 of 22 games for the Riverhawks in 2020-21. Only played 16 minutes per game but led the team in FG% making 23 from 47 at 48%.

Career GP 22 GS 12 PPG 2.5

Junior College

Parehuia Delamere (Sophomore at Western Texas College)

Parehuia averaged 15 minutes per game in her freshman season – led the Westerners in steals averaging almost 2 per game.

Career GP 20 GS 6 PPG 3.5

Jordyn Maddix (Sophomore at Western Texas College)

A teammate of Parehuia Jordyn played an almost identical number of minutes as her back court buddy Parehuia. Both will be looking to make a bigger impact in 2021-22.

Career GP 20 GS 3 PPG 4.0

Waiaaria Rogers (Sophomore at Marshalltown College)

The former Rangitoto College guard started 5 of 15 games for Marshalltown last season.

Career 15 GS 5 PPG 4.0

Rashaan Smith (Sophomore at Western Nebraska College)

After getting little opportunity at Dawson College Rashaan has transferred to Western Nebraska for the 2021-22 season.

Career 17 GS 1 PPG 2.6

Keeley Tini (Sophomore at Williston State College)

Started all 24 games for Williston State last season leading the team in scoring (16.2ppg) and second in rebounding (6.5rpg).

Career 24 GS 24 PPG 16.2