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Huriana Manuel
	Manuel in 2024
Full name	Huriana Manuel-Carpenter
Date of birth	8 August 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth	Auckland, New Zealand
Height	1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Notable relative(s)	Liza Mihinui (mother); Derek Carpenter (husband)
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Centre
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team
2005–	Auckland Storm
International career
Years	Team
2005–2014	New Zealand
National sevens team
Years	Team
2009–	New Zealand
Representing New Zealand
Women's rugby union
Rugby World Cup
Women's rugby sevens
Olympic Games
Rugby World Cup Sevens

Huriana Manuel-Carpenter (born 8 August 1986) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays for the Black Ferns, the New Zealand women's sevens team and Auckland.

Rugby career

Manuel was part of the Black Ferns squad that won the 2006^[1]^[2] and 2010 Rugby World Cup's. In 2009, she was part of the Black Ferns sevens team that were runners-up at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai.

Of Māori descent, Manuel affiliates to the Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Ngāpuhi iwi.^[4] Manuel's mother, Liza Mihinui, is a former Black Fern. They are the first mother and daughter to play for the Black Ferns.^[5]^[6]^[7]

In August 2021, it was announced that she would feature in the 2021 season of Celebrity Treasure Island.^[8]

^ "World Cup Windback: 2006 Black Ferns". allblacks.com. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022. Huriana Manuel-Carpenter
^ "Black Ferns World Cup squad named". NZ Herald. 26 July 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2022. Huriana Manuel
^ "Six legends to be inducted into World Rugby Hall of Fame". World Rugby. Retrieved 27 October 2021. Huriana Manuel-Carpenter
^ "43 Māori athletes to head to Rio Olympics". Te Karere. 5 August 2016. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
^ Paul Lewis (30 July 2006). "Ferns a family affair". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
^ Alan Apted (4 March 2009). "Suasua set for record". Retrieved 5 August 2012.
^ Anna Kessel (20 August 2010). "Fierce Ferns pull in crowds as women's World Cup begins". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
^ "Meet the contestants of Celebrity Treasure Island 2021". TheSpinoff. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.