Meet Miss Fit - our very own Teana!
Coach Teana
Teana Scoon is Kaitohutohu Paearu Whare Ora (Healthy Homes Advisor) with the Whare Ora Healthy Homes team in Wairau / Blenheim.
When she is not working with whānau to make their homes safer, Teana has a busy after-hours life as Coach Teana, running MissFit Boxing. Her dedication to MissFit, Marlborough’s only female-focused boxing studio is just one way Teana ‘walks the talk’ when it comes to making positive health and wellbeing choices and changes.
In this article, Teana tells us about herself.
Ko wai au?
Ko Puketapu te Maunga
Ko Te Arai te Awa
Ko Takitumu te Waka
Ko Ngai Tawhiri te Hapu
Ko Ohako te Marae
Ko Rongowhakaata te iwi
Ki te taha o toku māmā, Ko Ngāti Hamoa te iwi.
As the Whare Ora Healthy Home advisor, it is my role to educate people on how to keep their homes warm and dry over the winter period to help eliminate respiratory illness which can be caused by our homes. We focus on those most vulnerable homes with our tamariki and kaumātua and try and prioritise these whānau to lessen their presentations to hospitals and GPs with respiratory illness symptoms.
Having spent most of my adult life working in community organisations I found that using my passion for boxing in much of the work that I have done over the years.
After spending a couple of years in Blenheim I had decided to get back into boxing but in a teaching capacity, noting that I did not have the time or capacity to train for fighting but still wanting to be involved in the sport.
MissFit Boxing Blenheim was created due to the lack of female-only spaces, not only in this town but the boxing world in general. My aim was to create a welcoming space for all females to come and learn the art of boxing but also an accepting space where you feel no judgement and are not intimidated by the mostly male-dominated spaces.
The feedback that I get is that woman feel not only welcome but empowered and build confidence in themselves. The support of the other women around them is always encouraging and the space that I have created was intended for every woman not just a specific target group.
I have a Mini MissFit class which is my 5-11 year-olds and then my ladies’ class that has girls as young as 12 years right up to ladies in their 70s! And they all train alongside each other, laugh, cry, chat and mostly come to be surrounded by like-minded women who they know will uplift them at the end of their session.
Nāku noa, nā
Teana Scoon – Kaitohutohu Paearu Whare Ora / Healthy Homes Advisor
Rongowhakaata
Coach Teana on the cover
Teana featured as the cover story in the October 2025 issue of Marlborough Magazine.
Photos: From left, Teana in MissFit mode as Coach Teana; Teana on the cover of Marlborough Magazine; Teana with her Whare Ora Healthy Homes kaimahi in Wairau - Mel Nally (left) and Khylee Baker.