Mele Hufanga
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| Born | 18 October 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg (14 st 9 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing, Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mele Hufanga (born 18 October 1994) is a New Zealand rugby league player who plays at wing or centre for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRLW.
She has competed for Tonga internationally in rugby union, and for Tonga and New Zealand in rugby league.[1][2] She played for the Blues Women in the inaugural season of Super Rugby Aupiki in 2022. She also made her test debut for the Tonga women's national rugby union team. She competed for the Kiwi Ferns at the delayed 2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup.
Hufanga scored 16 tries for Auckland in the 2015 Farah Palmer Cup season.[2][1] Hufanga played for Counties Manukau in the 2020 season of the Farah Palmer Cup.[3][1][4] In 2021 she played for the Moana Pasifika women's sevens team at the Takiwhitu Tutūru tournament in Wellington.[5][6][7]
Hufanga signed with the Blues for the inaugural season of Super Rugby Aupiki.[8][9][10] She scored a try in their match against Matatū in round 2 of the 2022 Super Rugby Aupiki season.[11][12][13]
Hufanga captained Tonga at the 2022 Oceania Championship in New Zealand.[14] She scored a brace of tries against Samoa in the opening match of the tournament.[15][16] She scored again against Fiji in their 34–7 loss in the second game.[17][18] She scored four tries in her sides 108–7 trouncing of Papua New Guinea in their final match.[19][20]