More high profile signings for the 2025 Super Rugby Aupiki season with Black Fern and Paramatta Eels star Rosie Kelly shifting to the Chiefs Manawa.
This year, Kelly switched to league and was on the park for every minute of the Eels' five-win, four-loss season. She earned a place in the Kiwi Ferns wider squad for the current Pacific Championship.
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Kelly was "super excited" to be moving north after a season featuring plenty of football.
"I look forward to embracing the team culture, creating new connections and growing as a player both on and off the field. Super Rugby Aupiki is growing every year and I can't wait for the 2025 season to begin," she said.
Chiefs Manawa head coach Dwayne Sweeney was thrilled to have a player of Kelly's standing joining the side.
"We are stoked to have a player of Rosie's calibre join us here at the Chiefs. She is an experienced first five at this level with a huge drive to compete and grow as a player.
"We are looking forward to what she will add to our squad in 2025 and can't wait to see her in a Chiefs Manawa jersey."
A standout talent from early on, Kelly captained the Christchurch Girls' High School First XV and made her representative debut for Canterbury Sevens while still at school.
In 2017 she was a member of the region's Farah Palmer Cup winning side and was selected in the NZ Barbarians squad.
Earlier in the week the Blues confirmed the signing of Black Ferns Sevens and XV's legend Portia Woodman-Wickliffe.