Aotearoa Mata'u (born 2 May 1997) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She played

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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

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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.

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