Aotearoa Mata'u

Aotearoa Mata'u is a New Zealand rugby union player. She played Prop for New Zealand internationally and for Counties Manukau provincially.

Rugby career

Mata'u was selected in the Black Ferns 28-player squad that played the Wallaroos in a two-test series in October 2016. She made her international debut for New Zealand on 22 October 2016 against Australia in Auckland. She scored her only international try in a test against Canada on 23 November 2016.
She was named in the Black Ferns squad for the 2017 Rugby World Cup in Ireland.
In 2018, Mata'u featured in a YouTube video that highlighted her fending off five defenders in a try-scoring run by the giant prop for her Portuguese club, Sporting.