In order to make things as easy on her grandmother as possible, Daysh says she and her aunty took on the workload of the farm. It meant lots of early mornings and long days in order to juggle that task with her own commitments.
Daysh was also coaching basketball and was preparing for the National Maori Basketball Tournament in Rotorua in January, which she and her Te Maru o Mauao ki Tauranga Moana teammates won, taking out the 2019 NZ Māori Basketball Wahine Champions title.
From there, Daysh was selected for the New Zealand Maori Women's Basketball Team.
Daysh, who has played basketball at a national level many times, says this year her goal was to make the New Zealand Maori Women's team and it was no easy task.
Her days would start about 5am and would get home about 7pm because she knew she had goals to reach. Luckily, she had time off work, she says.
"My biggest goal was to make this, we've had a couple of hard times," Daysh says.
She says she and her family were given a lot of support from people in their community and she was thankful for everyone's efforts. Now that her Poppy was home and was in good health, Daysh says she is concentrating more on her next goal - which is the next competition in Wellington.
"We're going to training camp a couple of days before, everybody's fresh off nationals at the end of January."
The 185cm basketballer started playing the sport when she was 12 and with plenty of talent, she has been able to continue and progress in the sport.
"My mum used to play, I was always the tall kid."
Currently playing in the Women's Basketball Championship (WBC) for Waikato, Daysh has plenty to keep her busy in the sport. She also gives plenty back to the sport that has given her so much, coaching dozens of kids in teams around the city and encouraging young children, especially in the intermediate age group, to do their best.
"Basketball can be their outlet ... [I'd] like kids to see that."
