Sport & Motorsport

New Zealand’s ‘home of netball in the Deep South’ will host the 2020 ANZ Premiership Finals Series with all six teams converging on Invercargill in August. The revised season comes to a conclusion with a triple-header Finals Series played on Sunday 23 August at ILT Stadium Southland in Invercargill.

The public enjoyed their return to watch harness racing at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill on Saturday with a good crowd attending the Southern Harness Race Day, the first meeting for almost three months that the gates were open to the wider public. All facilities for the day were based at the To

Talented Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel defender Taneisha Fifita is ready to leave her mark when the revised 2020 ANZ Premiership season resumes this weekend. After being a Steel training partner for the past two years, Fifita comes into this season as a fully contracted player for the Reinga Bloxh

The Draft is done and dusted, with 84 players selected to play in the 2020 Sal’s NBL Showdown starting 23 June. The two and a half-hour-long live broadcast drew attention from both and abroad, as fans had the option of attending their local draft party, watching at a Sal’s pizzeria or observing from

Rugby Southland is excited to announce a local coaching line up for the 2020 Mitre 10 Cup Season. SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags Head Coach Dale MacLeod will be joined by two Southland Rugby Stalwarts, with the return of Jason Kawau and newly appointed David Hall joining the coaching setup. Coach Dal

Thirteen sporting codes ranging from mountain biking to motorbike racing are represented amongst this year’s ILT Southland Sports Awards finalists. And despite a year when sport was significantly disrupted due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Southlanders were still able to achieve outstanding feats at nat

A collaborative approach has helped volleyball become the first community sport in Southland to get back underway after the easing of Covid-19 restrictions. ILT Stadium Southland General Manager Nigel Skelt said it was great to have the energy provided by the volleyball community back in the stadium

Invercargill business advisor and project manager Bevan Ellis has been appointed to chair an expanded Sport Southland Board. Ellis, who has been a trustee of the regional sports trust since 2018, replaces Steven Kennedy, who passed away earlier this year. “It was a bitter-sweet appointment with Stev