Teilah Ferguson has been given a new job with the Hawke's Bay Sevens women's team but is far from fazed.
A second-season player in the Maurice Trapp Group Hawke's Bay side which will be one of 12 women's teams at this weekend's TECT Nationals in Tauranga, Ferguson will play hooker instead of the wing role she had last summer.
"Either way there's not much difference ... we're all doing the same thing," Ferguson said.
The daughter of fellow team member, former Aotearoa Maori Sevens and New Zealand touch star Julie Ferguson-Ngawaka - who was the Bay's best player at last summer's nationals - Ferguson had two weeks before the December 1 Central Regional tournament in Levin after returning from her first year of studying food science and psychology at Otago University to learn her new role. While she coped admirably as Hawke's Bay finished third Ferguson, 18, said the fortnight since the Levin trip has proved beneficial to her and the team.
"We've only been doing defence because that let us down last season when we finished 11th. We've put the mahi in and now I can't wait to see how we go."