{"id":278642,"date":"2025-11-11T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278642\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:18:10","slug":"three-finalists-in-football-named-for-the-maori-sports-awards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278642\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Finalists in Football named for the M\u0101ori Sports Awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Rogerson, Michael Mayne, and Gordon Watson have all been named as finalists for the Te Tohu Taakaro o Aotearoa | M\u0101ori Sports Awards 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Rogerson (Waikato Tainui) is a finalist for Senior M\u0101ori Sportsman of the Year, Michael Mayne (Ng\u0101ti Awa, Ng\u0101puhi) is a finalist for M\u0101ori Sports Coach of the Year, and Gordon Watson (Ng\u0101puhi) is a finalist for M\u0101ori Sports Administrator of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The M\u0101ori Sports Awards will be broadcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maoriplus.co.nz\/live\/whakaata-maori\/play\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whakaata M\u0101ori<\/a> as well as its online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maoriplus.co.nz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M\u0100ORI+<\/a>\u00a0platform and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@maoriplus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0channel\u00a0on 29 November from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Winners in 10 categories will be announced with all finalists and world champions in contention for the supreme award \u2013 the prestigious Albie Pryor Memorial M\u0101ori Sports Person of the Year, Rongomaraeroa.<\/p>\n<p>The M\u0101ori Sports Awards\u2019 finalists for these categories are:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>M\u0100UI TIKITIKI-\u0100-TARANGA | M\u0101ori Sports Administrator of the Year<br \/>Gordon Watson (Ng\u0101puhi), T\u0101maki Makaurau | Auckland \u2013 poiwhana | football<br \/>Harley Wall (Taranaki, Ng\u0101ti T\u016bwharetoa), T\u0101maki Makaurau | Auckland \u2013 p\u0101 whutup\u014dro | touch rugby<br \/>Tui P\u0101puni (Ng\u0101 P\u014dtiki, Ng\u0101ti Whakaue), Tauranga \u2013 poirewa | volleyball<\/p>\n<p>TE MARU \u014c T\u016aMATAUENGA | M\u0101ori Sports Coach of the Year<br \/>Thomas Makea (Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu), Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington \u2013 poiuka | softball<br \/>Marty Bourke (Waikato Tainui), \u014ctautahi | Christchurch \u2013 whutup\u014dro | rugby<br \/>Michael Mayne (Ng\u0101ti Awa, Ng\u0101puhi), Kirikiriroa | Hamilton \u2013 poiwhana | football<\/p>\n<p>TE TAMA-\u0100-TANENUI\u0100RANGI | Senior M\u0101ori Sportsman of the Year<br \/>Reilly Makea (Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu, Mua\u016bpoko), Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington \u2013 poiuka | softball<br \/>Joseph Tapine (Ng\u0101i T\u016bhoe), Ahitereiria | Australia \u2013 r\u012bki | rugby league<br \/>Logan Tipene Rogerson (Waikato Tainui), T\u0101maki Makaurau | Auckland \u2013 poiwhana | football<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the M\u0101ori Sports Awards, go to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maorisportsawards.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article added: Wednesday 12 November 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Logan Rogerson, Michael Mayne, and Gordon Watson have all been named as finalists for the Te Tohu Taakaro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}