Netball maria tutaia biography
Netball maria tutaia biography
Maria Tutaia - Age, Family, Bio!
Maria Folau
New Zealand netball player
Solonaima Maria Folau (néeTuta'ia; born 18 February 1987 in Tokoroa, New Zealand) is a retired New Zealand netball player.
She played regularly for the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns.
Early life
Folau was born Solonaima Maria Tuta'ia in Tokoroa on 18 February 1987, the daughter of Fuisami Tuta'ia, a forestry worker, and his wife, Niukini, a homemaker, who in 1983 had moved to New Zealand from Samoa.[1][2] She was named for her grandmothers, Solonaima and Malia, and she began using her middle name when she entered school as her teacher had difficulty pronouncing her first name.[2] Maria Tuta'ia was an attendee of Lynfield College but in the final year of it, transferred to Mount Albert Grammar School.
At MAGS, she became a captain of its first Premier Netball team, which under her command came fourth at the Upper North Island Secondary Schools tournament and New Zealand Secondary Sc