Biography

Stepping into the Pulse head coach role for the first time last season and guiding the team to the runners-up spot, Anna Andrews-Tasola returns for the 2025 campaign. The Pulse’s assistant coach in 2022 (title win) and 2023 (third place finish), the former shooter was also the team’s specialist shooting coach for 2020 and 2021 and has fashioned an impressive coaching resume. Involved locally, as a player and a coach, for the past 25 years, Andrews-Tasola played franchise netball for the Wellington Shakers and Western Flyers while also representing the Cook Islands at World Cup level. From there, she moved into coaching, working her way through club, national age-group teams and as head coach of the Cook Islands which won the gold medal at the 2019 Pacific Games and bronze at the Singapore Nations Cup, before becoming assistant coach with Central Manawa in the National Netball League (NNL). Andrews-Tasola spent six successful years with Manawa, three as head coach, winning the NNL coach of the year award in 2022 while also being Pulse assistant coach. Previously, Andrews-Tasola has achieved her NNZ Community Coach Award and NNZ Performance Coach Qualification. She has also been part of the High Performance Sport NZ programme, Te Hāpaitanga, a holistic coach development initiative enabling more females to pursue and maintain careers in high performance coaching in New Zealand.