The Wiki family holds a special place in Canberra Raiders history, and in the NRLW finals another proud chapter can be written.
The Raiders are set for their first finals appearance since joining the NRLW in 2023, with Friday night's elimination clash against the Wests Tigers their first hurdle.
Mackenzie Wiki was with the club from the beginning, and following in the footsteps of her dad Ruben she became one half of the Raiders' first NRL-NRLW father-daughter duo at the same club.
Now Wiki has a chance to match what her dad achieved in 1994 by winning a premiership for the Green Machine, and it's not a chance she plans on wasting.
"It was a big thing me coming to the Raiders. It was a bit of a full-circle moment with my dad being at this club too. It's been very special," she told The Canberra Times.
", it's about continuing the name 'Wiki' in the sport, and my family's played a large part in my career, and I owe a lot to them. It's been such a surreal journey, and I just love being at the Raiders.
"I'm very excited for finals footy. It's taken a couple seasons for us to get there [to finals], but we've had such a great season so far, and I think we deserve to be here."
Wiki's mum, dad, brother and grandfather live in Auckland and won't be with her at Campbelltown to watch the game against the Tigers, instead holding out for a trip over to Australia should the Raiders make the NRLW grand final.
But as Wiki has done for every game she's played so far in the NRLW, before kick-off she will make her usual pre-match call to family.
The 24-year-old said the routine involves speaking to each of them individually, where they'll give their good-luck messages, she'll tell her dad her attack and defence goals for the game, and when she hangs up, she has the confidence to play to her full potential.
"It just creates that motivation for myself to play the best footy I can on that day, and gives me that extra boost and belief in myself."
"My dad taught me almost everything I know about rugby league, and his advice is always the same," Wiki added.
"It's to play my best footy, and emphasise on all my skills to help the team do their best."
Despite entering their first finals campaign, Wiki said there is a lot of confidence that the Raiders can go all the way. Momentum is on their side after Canberra beat the Tigers last week 22-10 at Leichhardt Oval.
"The belief in this Raiders group, you can't compare anything to it," Wiki said.
"Our girls have worked so hard and our coach Bortho [Darrin Borthwick] has done so much for us that we just want to get to the grand final and just play our best footy and show that the Raiders are here to play."
"The Tigers are definitely going to come back on Friday much harder and faster. They'll be doing their homework on what we did last time, so it's going to be a tough game."
Friday: Canberra Raiders v Wests Tigers, 7.50pm at Campbelltown Sports Stadium
Raiders squad: 1. Sheridan Gallagher, 2. Isabella Waterman, 3. Leianne Tufuga, 4. Bobbi Law, 5. Mackenzie Wiki, 6. Krystal Blackwell, 7. Zahara Temara (C), 8. Chloe Saunders, 9. Chante Temara, 10. Sophie Holyman, 11. Jordyn Preston, 12. Charlotte Basham, 13. Hollie-Mae Dodd. Interchange from: 14. Emma Barnes, 15. Grace Kemp, 16. Lili Boyle, 17. Grace Kukutai, 18. Ellie Brander, 19. Sereana Naitokatoka, 20. Madison Bartlett, 21. Madyson Tooth, 22. Relna Wuruki-Hosea.
You would do well to find someone more desperate to spearhead the Raiders to an NRLW title than Simaima Taufa. But when they make their first finals appearance, Canberra's "heart and soul" will be missing.
Because the star Raiders lock is serving a three-game suspension for contact - and there is only one way she can play for Canberra again this year.
The Raiders will have to reach the grand final.
The road starts in Campbelltown, where the Raiders will meet the Wests Tigers in an elimination final on Friday night.
Taufa has already spent one week on the sidelines, watching the Raiders beat the Tigers to close out the regular season just days ago. The days following her suspension were the darkest - but she has already emerged as the driving force in Canberra's finals campaign.
"She definitely is the heart and soul," Raiders playmaker Krystal Blackwell said.
"A couple weeks ago, she felt disappointed that she let us down. That's just the type of person that she is. No one ever thought that [she had let us down].
"She has taken us to another level last week, just trying to be that energy and motivation that you can sometimes lack getting to the end of the season. She was good to have around the group last week. She just brought everything she possibly could. Even before the game, she was helping out everyone with little things to work on throughout the game.
"She is a great leader to have around the group, whether she's on the field or she's not on the field."
Taufa has been crowned Canberra's player of the year three times. This is only the Raiders' fourth season. Few have given more to the jersey since the club entered the NRLW.
Now, as she holds out hope of watching the Raiders go a dream finals run in the midst of what many have deemed a two-horse race between the Sydney Roosters and Gold Coast Titans, Taufa is leaving no stone unturned.
"Throughout the whole season she's helped me, but this week she's really taken me under her belt when she does have that extra time, because she isn't playing," Raiders back-rower Charlotte Basham said.
"I don't think she understands how much she does help us younger ones, just with her words, her knowledge, and her skill on the field.
"Off the field, she's always having a positive impact and always trying to help you out before the game, after the game, during the game. At training, she's just the first one to go out of her way to help you, which is something that I don't think she knows she does a lot, but I'm really grateful for it."