The Tahāroa Steelers Rugby League Club has done the double. Both the men’s and women’s teams of the coast club took out their respective Waikato senior A and premier rugby league finals in Huntly over…
The Tahāroa Steelers Rugby League Club has done the double. Both the men’s and women’s teams of the coast club took out their respective Waikato senior A and premier rugby league finals in Huntly over…
The New Zealand shearing team featuring Te Kūiti’s Jack Fagan fell just short of levelling the four-test series against Wales at the Corwen Shears. Fagan partnering Eketahuna’s Hemi Braddick lost the fourth and final Welsh…
Athletes with strong links to Waipā and northern King Country picked up 11 of the 36 medals won by New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Ōtorohanga connected cyclist Nicole Murray rode herself to…
The global craze of pickleball is in Te Kūiti after Ata Te Kanawa started promoting drop-in sessions at the Gallagher Recreation Centre about a year ago. The sport, which originating in the United States in…
Four players and one coach with King Country connections are part of Waikato rugby’s provincial squad. Ōtorohanga products Taipari Quinn and Dylan Eti, former Taupō-nui-a-Tia College student David Lewai and Piopio-raised Cortez Ratima are included…
Years of hard work have paid off for Te Kūiti basketballer Harrison Matthews who represented Waikato Country at the Basketball New Zealand U16 National Championships in Christchurch last week. Matthews, 15, was one of 12…
King Country Rugby Union is hoping a new women’s 10-aside initiative will bear fruit. Teams from Coast RFC, Taumarunui and Taupō will play at Rugby Park in Te Kūiti tomorrow night in the second edition…
Aria shooter Natalie Foss has capped off her final junior world championships campaign in Germany with a solid performance against the best young trap-shooters in the world. The 21-year-old competed in the junior women’s trap-shooting…
It will be an all-Taupō King Country club final on Saturday after Taupō Marist and Taupō Sports came out on top in their respective semi-finals. Marist swept aside Waitete 38-5 at Owen Delany Park, and…
The Waitete U13 team have done the double after demolishing Taupō Sports Vikings 74-19 to win the Jim Gibb Shield and the final in Te Kūiti on Saturday. The young blues have been a step…
