Wanting to be an inspiration to her daughter and nieces is the major motivator for basketballer Aroha Haumaha to try and make the New Zealand Maori squad.
There isn't too much Haumaha hasn't achieved on a basketball court, but with the end of the national basketball season and an ankle which needs an operation - you'd think putting your hand up to play for the New Zealand Maori team would be the last thing on the 27-year-old's mind.
But you'd be wrong. In fact it has only fuelled the mother of one who has played basketball for the University of Memphis, college basketball for Dodge City Community College in Kansas and for the New Zealand women's Tall Ferns. And she won't let anything hold her back.
"Another factor for me to make the Maori [team] was after I had my daughter, I hadn't made the Tall Ferns...
"One of my goals was to try and make the Tall Ferns to inspire my daughter and nieces and whanau to show that anything is possible, that you can make a national team after having a baby," Haumaha said.