Former Hawke's Bay Magpies rugby player Aayden Clarke has been appointed to the Sport Hawke's Bay board as Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi representative.
He replaces 1980 Kiwis rugby league star Kevin Tamati, now living in Australia.
From the Wairoa area, Mr Clarke played 46 games for Hawke's Bay Magpies, and also played for Wairarapa-Bush and Poverty Bay, as well as having stints abroad in Italy and Japan.
He has been players professional development manager for the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union and is currently contracted in a similar role with the New Zealand Rugby Union.
He is also a consultant for several iwi across New Zealand focusing on tertiary education and Māori economic development, and he has been an assistant head of school for Trades and Technology at EIT.