Local Sport

Ice breaker at Ngā Roto

Scouts Aotearoa national commissioner Raani Kelderman called it a fantastic ice breaker. More than 200 scouts and kaiārahi (leaders) from 14 scout groups in the upper North Island region started the boating season with the…

Medals and mishaps

September 6 11am Ngāhinapōuri’s Nicole Murray, 31, has withdrawn from her final Para cycling race at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games tonight due to illness. The Paralympic bronze medallist had been due to start in…

Schuler sets record

Te Awamutu Sports Club sprinter Alex Schuler rode 10.155s for the flying 200m qualifying, which broke an eight-year old record of 10.223s set by Southland’s Bradly Knipe at the World Junior track cycling championships in…

College wins

Te Awamutu College celebrated some fine results in Waikato schools rugby last weekend. The first XV travelled to Hamilton and beat St Paul’s Collegiate seconds 14-10 to be crowned Under-18 division 2 champions while the…

Masson wins – who’s next?

Floyd Masson against David Nykia? It’s a cruiserweight bout between two Queensland based boxers which would command huge interest in the Waikato where both were born. Boxing scribe Benjamin Watt has suggested the matchup as…

Scout on the water

Scouts Aotearoa Waikato Zone Kaiārahi, or leaders, spent a weekend on Lake Ngā Roto, near Te Awamutu, training and being assessed for water charge certificates. Under Scouts Aotearoa Waikato water activities advisor Dave Smith, five…

Sailing club adds trailer yachts

Safe sailing for the next Micah Wilkinson is Ngā Roto Sailing Club’s dream for three new yachts. Cambridge born Wilkinson is a club member – and he brought home a bronze medal form the Olympics…

Wilkinson celebrates Olympic bronze

Ngā Roto Sailing Club member Micah Wilkinson and sailing partner, Auckland’s Erica Dawson, picked up a bronze medal in the Nacra 17 mixed multihull event at the Paris Olympics. Wilkinson, 28, who helms, and Dawson,…

Ella takes the lead

When Ella Yarndley graduated from the Special Olympics athlete leadership class at Parliament last week, she joined an elite group of Te Awamutu swimmers. But it nearly didn’t happen. She was struck down with an…

Tulip rules the green

The final tournament of the winter season for the Kihikihi Bowling Club provided the club an opportunity to acknowledge the work of its greenkeeper. “Mark Tulip’s efforts over the last three seasons in bringing these…

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