New Zealand will send its largest team to the World Indoor Athletics Championships, with 12 athletes selected for the event in China later this month.
Olympic high jump champion Hamish Kerr leads the squad and is aiming to defend the Indoor world title he won last year.
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New Zealand won four medals at the 2024 event finishing third on the medal table.
"I'm looking forward to defending my title and ready for some big jumps," said Kerr.
Joining the high jumper is a full complement of shot putters with two men and two women selected.
Paris Olympic silver medallist Maddi Wesche and Kaia Tupu-Smith will contest the women's event.
The United States based Tupu-Smith who is at the University of Washington in Seattle will be representing New Zealand for the first time.
Tom Walsh who won silver at the 2024 World Indoor Champs in Glasgow is joined by Jacko Gill who finished seventh at the Paris Olympics and fifth at last year's World Indoor Championships.
A notable absentee is pole vaulter Eliza McCartney who won silver in Glasgow last year.
McCartney's only recently returned to competition after the Paris Olympics, contesting the national track and field champs in Dunedin at the weekend but she failed to reach the qualifying mark.
Paris Olympians Olivia McTaggart and Imogen Ayris did reach the qualifying standard however and will compete in China.
Sprinters Zoe Hobbs and Tiaan Whelpton will contest the 100m, while middle distance runners Maia Ramsden and Laura Nagel will compete in the 1500m.
Ramsden has been in good recent form setting a new New Zealand mile record in Boston to qualify for China.
Rounding out the team is Canada based 800m runner Alison Andrews-Paul, who recently ran the fourth fastest time by a New Zealand woman over the distance.
Sam Tanner withdrew to focus on his outdoor season while Ethan Olivier will concentrate on rehabbing a minor injury picked up earlier in the season.
Kimberly May has withdrawn to focus on her outdoor season. Eddie Osei-Nketia has withdrawn to focus on the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor season.
Men:
Hamish Kerr (High Jump) – Coach: James Sandilands
Tom Walsh (Shot Put) – Coach: Hayden Hall
Jacko Gill (Shot Put) – Coach: Dale Stevenson
Tiaan Whelpton (60m) – Coach: Angus Ross
Women:
Maddi Wesche (Shot Put) – Mike Schofield
Kaia Tupu-South (Shot Put) – Walter Gill/Jason Schutz
Zoe Hobbs (60m) Coach: James Mortimer
Olivia McTaggart (Pole Vault) Coach: Scott Simpson
Imogen Ayris (Pole Vault) Coach: Scott Simpson
Maia Ramsden (1500m) Coach: Dathan Ritzenhein
Laura Nagel (1500m) Coach: Paul Hamblyn
Alison Andrews-Paul (800m) Coach: Brit Townsend