[Shyanne Thompson speaking] 

What motivates me and my role is, majority is my son, so I have a five-year-old boy and just the opportunity to be able to influence a healthy, active community and school I think pretty much motivates me and just knowing that he's going to be able to grow up healthy and active.  

My first fond memory of being active? For me growing up, my whānau was quite connected to Tangaroa so being out in the ocean and lots of my cousins and my siblings would go out swimming in the sea. Didn't have boogie boards because it was quite a lot of us so for us we would body surf, so that's pretty much my fondest memory.