Twenty-year-old professional James Fouche showed a glimpse of his outstanding potential when he cleared out from a select group to claim the overall honours in the men’s road race at the Vantage Elite and Under 23 Road National Championships in Napier on Sunday. Fouche, who has been re-signed with U
A powerful new network, Women in Sport Murihiku, has been created to ensure that women and girls remain valued, visible and influential in Southland sport. While female sport is undergoing something of a global and national renaissance at the moment, Southland is already well advanced in ensuring th
Waihopai Tennis Club are busy preparing for a special visitor and it’s not the man in red. This weekend, the world’s most southern tennis club will host one of the big north American stars set to play at this years ASB Classic, Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Mattek-Sands, an Olympic Gold medallist and winne
There was plenty of silver dangling around the necks of Southland’Touch players after the Southern IPS held in Christchurch at the weekend. The Southland under-12 girls, under-14 boys and under-16 girls’ sides all progressed through to the final of their respective grades where they all took on Cant
Some slight tweaks to the make-up of Southland’s junior representative teams will be of focus when they compete in the annual Southern Junior IPS in Christchurch this weekend. Over the past few years Touch Southland have sent separate teams from Southland (Invercargill based featuring country player
A huge weekend of Touch took place with tournaments in both Oamaru and Alexandra. Saturday saw our under-12, under-14 and under-16 boys and girls teams take on the best of Canterbury and Otago. All teams took some valuable experiences from the tournament and now know the standard required when the S
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has revealed he will step down after next year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan. He said whoever replaced him would bring a new perspective. “Some fresh eyes, some fresh thinking … whoever it is will be fresh. It will be for the enhancement of the legacy of the jersey,” he […
On Friday Southern Dirt Bike Club hosted round one of three annual twilight series with 154 entries. For more information about the club go to their Facebook page Southern Dirt Bike Riders Photos by Richard Dimmock Photography On-line entries are open again for our MX champs on the 16th and also op
