Brother-and-sister twins are set to open another chapter in Hawke's Bay rugby history in next week's Ross Shield primary schools tournament in Hastings.
T-vahni Tuliau and sister Deijah have been named in the Hastings West team for the five-day tournament at Lindisfarne College, starting on Tuesday.
While it's more than 15 years since the 113-year-old tournament had its first female player, and there've been several sets of male twins, it's thought they're the first unisex twins.
Pupils of Peterhead School in Flaxmere, and just turned 13, the've played for MAC since the 5th grade, and played in Hastings West D and C grade representative teams.
Father and long-time senior club player Sanele "Narley" Tuliau said T-vahni and Daijah started this season playing for Flaxmere because MAC didn't have enough players in their grade.