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| Full name | Saviour Tui | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (2001-10-17)17 October 2001 (age 24) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Mary's College, Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Saviour Tui (born 17 October 2001) is a netball player who has represented bothSamoa andNew Zealand at international level. Tui was a member of three title winning teams inNew Zealand's National Netball League. In 2018 and 2019, Tui won titles withCentral Zone/Central Manawa. In 2021 she won a third title with Northern Marvels. She was also a member of theCentral Pulse team that won the2018 Netball New Zealand Super Club tournament. She was a fringe member of the2021 Northern Mystics team that wereANZ Premiership champions. Since2024, she has played forWaikato Bay of Plenty Magic in theANZ Premiership.
Tui is aSamoan New Zealander. She also hasTokelauan ancestry.[1] She was raised inWainuiomata[2][3][4][5][6] inLower Hutt.[7] She was educated atSt Mary's College, Wellington.[2][8][9]
In 2018 and 2019, Tui played forCentral Zone/Central Manawa in theNational Netball League.[9][10][11][12] She was just 16 and still at school when first included in the Central Zone team.[2][5] She was subsequently a member of two Central Zone/Central Manawa NNL title winning teams.[6][10][12] After helping Central Zone win a second title in 2018,[13][14] she helped, the now renamed Central Manawa, complete a three in a row in 2019. In the 2019 final, Tui, scored 36 from 38 as they defeated Waikato Bay of Plenty 49–46.[15][16]
Tui played forCentral Pulse in the2018 Netball New Zealand Super Club tournament. She played and scored for Pulse in all three group stage matches.[14][17][18][19]
Between2019 and2021, Tui played forNorthern Mystics.[1][3][20][21][22] She was a member of the Mystics team that finished as runners up in the2019 Netball New Zealand Super Club tournament.[20] She was subsequently a regular in2020 Mystics team.[5][23][24] She was only a fringe member of the2021 Northern Mystics team that wereANZ Premiership champions. She played just 14 minutes of game time, down from 374 minutes in 2020. Tui was kept out of the team byGrace Nweke,Bailey Mes and Filda Vui.[23][25] However she was a prominent member of the Northern Marvels team, the Mystics reserve team, that were 2021National Netball League champions. Tui played all nine NNL matches for Marvels and she finished the season as the NNL top scorer with 337 goals and a 91% accuracy rate. In the grand final she scored 56 from 58 as Marvels defeated Northern Comets 64–56. She was also named player of the match. It was Marvels' first NNL title and Tui's third. She was subsequently namedNational Netball League Player of the Year.[6][22][25][26][27]
Ahead of the2022 season, Tui signed forSouthern Steel.[4][25][28][29]
In 2018 and 2019, Tui was included inNew Zealand schoolgirl squads.[2][8][9] She also played for the New Zealand under 21s in the 2020 Cadbury Netball Series.[7][25][30][31][32] She was included in the New Zealand squad for the2024 Fast5 Netball World Series.[33][34]
In July 2022, Tui played forSamoa at the2023 Netball World Cup Oceania qualifiers.[35][36][37]
| Season | Team | G/A | GA | RB | CPR | FD | IC | DF | PN | TO | MP |
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| 2020 | Mystics |  86/105 (82%) | 43 | 1 | 105 | 65 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 13 |
| 2021 | Mystics | 6/8 (75%) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | Steel | 127/160 (79%) | 65 | 5 | 85 | 98 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 44 | 12 |
| 2023 | Steel | | |||||||||
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| Year | Award |
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| 2021 | National Netball League Player of the Year[27][38][39] |
