Southland Sports News

Rugby and netball are starkly contrasting sporting codes but physiotherapist Andrew Mackintosh is discovering plenty of similarities. Mackintosh has joined the ranks of the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel this season, tasked with keeping the players in peak shape as the demands of the ANZ Premiershi

For the first time in ANZ Premiership history, the MG Mystics have defeated the Ascot Park Hotel Steel at home in Invercargill, with a comprehensive display on both attack and defence to win 70-50. After allowing the Mystics a 10-goal advantage in the first quarter, the Steel couldn’t pull it back d

The final day of the Track National Championships was highlighted with an impressive New Zealand record in the women’s team sprint at the Grassroots Trust Velodrome in Cambridge. The women’s team sprint combination of Rebecca Petch, Olivia King and Ellesse Andrews (Waikato BOP) broke the national re

Athletes from a diverse range of sports have been included in the 2022 SBS Bank Academy Southland foundation year intake. Eleven sporting codes are represented across the 12-strong intake, which includes several athletes who have already achieved on the national stage. The two-year SBS Bank Academy

The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel enjoyed the luxury of giving all players court-time after delivering an emphatic season-opening 71-54 win over the Trident Homes Tactix in Christchurch on Sunday. The Steel stunned their neighbours with a comprehensive outing, turning the screws in the second half

It gives Rugby Southland great pleasure to announce SBS Bank as the new Naming Partner of The ‘SBS Bank Southland Stags’ for the 2022 Bunnings Warehouse NPC Season. As part of a wider partnership involving women’s rugby, junior rugby and rugby in the community, SBS Bank will also feature on the fron

Southland-based Nixon Cripps is one of the most travelled karters in the country, and if his continued success in the WPKA Goldstar Kart Series is anything to go by, then he will quickly reach frequent flyer status. The eight-year-old Cripps enjoyed two wins and second place overall, as well as seco

While the threat of unexpected interruption lurks, Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel captain Shannon Saunders is taking a determined approach to this season’s ANZ Premiership from the outset. “You just have to live game by game and when you have your team at full strength you need to be able to perfor