Paora winitana

BIOGRAPHY

Paora winitana

 Paora winitana was born in hastings 1976. Some of his friends invited him to the local church youth activities. He spent all his time playing rugby… but the church taught him how to  play basketball and as he learnt basketball it started to be his favourite sport. In 1996 paora played his first game at high school he scored 96 points, it was a NZ secondary  school record. The record breaking score made people take notice of  Paora. In 1986 he was selected to play for the north harbour heat in the NZ national basketball league (NBL). in the NBL debut year he won the rookie of the year award. After that he was offered seven opportunities to play basketball in the U.S.A including a scholarship to the university of Wisconsin. He refused to go because he wanted to go  on a two year mission for his church.   His favourite food is pasta & salads.  His favourite movie  is Braveheart .

  His favourite music is slow jams. Paora’s  heroes are his mum and Michael Jordan. His biggest injury was a bone bruising  cuboid bone.