Jaqua Pori-Makea-Simpson

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125 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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We were strangers.

We didn't even know each other.

I think preparation for this is easier even than the World Cup because we have sat down

in that top 10 ranking for quite some time now.

That is not a fluke.

Like we actually earned that place.

So yes, there's a connectedness.

Yes, we only have one professional athlete.

We did have two, but it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter who's in your group and how that happened.

You don't sit in the world top 10 out of good luck.

And I think that's a story that I'm going to have to keep telling them.

You know, like the journey started in 2019.

The reality is, like I was saying, they're actually two lifetimes apart.

It was 2022.

That's four years now of us proving that we belong in that place because we are still there.

And that doesn't get gifted to anybody.

You actually have to earn it.

Yeah, so we're currently ranked eighth in the world.

At a minimum, that's the lowest we would like to finish.

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