Rangatahi Success

Kia Ora, I am Carly and I come from a small town called Reporoa. During my primary years I went to Broadlands School and did my intermediate years at Reporoa College. At 17 years old I am now in my last year of high school at Rotorua Girls High. My story is all about basketball and small town life.  This year has and will have been a huge year for me. One of my proudest achievements I was able to do this year when I traveled across the world to play basketball for the NZ U17 Women’s Team.

I been fortunate to ‘achieve’ many things; from growing my first garden, to learning īnoi and karakia, being asked to conduct karakia Māori at a funeral, performing with my whānau of Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao at Matatini, coming together as a whānau during times of grief, attaining a Conjoint Degree of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws... so on and so forth. 

Ko Arohanui West tōku ingoa he uri ahau nō Te Arawa waka. Tūhourangi Ngāti wahiao, Ngāti whakaue, Ngāti Hurungaterangi ngā hapū. What is your current role?  I am a junior journalist working from Newshub, Whakaata māori, Nz herald and pacific media network newsrooms. I also do contracting mahi for parakore creating online waste educational content and delivering workshops to promote a world without waste from a māori worldview.