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He pono te mahi The Work Don't Lie

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EST. 2026 AOTEAROA → WORLD
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te manawa o te kaupapa.
Family is the heart of the kaupapa.

Two brothers chasing their dreams. A father sharing his blueprint. A mother keeping it real. Oceans apart, driven by values, anchored in family, running our own race.

Hunter and Cooper are in the States on F1 visas, using the USA schooling pathway to chase their dreams of becoming professional athletes—while securing their degrees along the way. They are living the grind, balancing high-level academics, and training alongside the best.

Back home in Tāmaki Makaurau, Coach Val puts kids through The Blueprint. A former Auckland Stars guard and Junior Tall Black, he takes his 30+ years of gym knowledge to run elite shooting clinics for aspiring ballers. Come for the shooting mechanics, stay for the standard. Val uses basketball to teach accountability, with every court session helping fund the path for his own boys overseas.

Meanwhile, Marcia writes The Diaries. No sugarcoating, no filter—just an honest, raw POV documenting the intense highs, the brutal lows, and what the athlete-mom journey really looks like. As the queen of logistics, she pulls back the curtain on the endless paperwork, flights, and moving parts required to keep a family operating across two hemispheres.

Ngā Tuākana.
The brothers.
Hunter.
Class of 2026
Te tuākana
Hunter.
Position
Shooting Guard / Combo Guard
Height
6'5″
Wingspan
6'8″
Shoe
US 15
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Cooper.
Class of 2028
Te taina
Cooper.
Position
Shooting Guard / Combo Guard
Height
6'8″
Wingspan
7'0″
Shoe
US 14
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O Faʻamaumauga o le Olaga.
The Diaries.
(Left to right) Hunter training at Mercyhurst, Mum with her boys, Cooper departing NZ from Auckland airport
Featured · author:family28 Sep 26 · 9 min

SEPTEMBER, SEPTEMBER…

Big travel. Big feelings. Concussions. College Life. Admin drama. Unanswered calls. Jetlag. Growing boys. And a Mum (and Dad) trying to work out where the hell she fits into it all. 🫠 The boys are doing their thing on the other side of the world, which is exactly what we wanted for them… but that doesn’t mean it’s always easy watching them grow up from 12,000km away. Sometimes parenting is making decisions, chasing things, paying for things, worrying about things… and sometimes it’s sitting there staring at WhatsApp wondering why the hell you’re still on “unseen”. 😂

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Aiga
Family
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Lalogo malosi
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Gafa
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Faʻaaloalo
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