Regional
3 silver medals for Peters
Friday 6 September 2013 | Published in Regional
It was a great day in the weightlifting office for Luisa Peters who won three silver medals in her competition at the Wallis and Futuna Pacific Mini Games.
Silver for Taea and Tapoki
Friday 6 September 2013 | Published in Regional
The Cook Islands won two silver medals on the track and field in Wallis on Thursday, bringing the Cooks medal count to 6 medals – one gold and five silver medals.
Avatiu take on Titikaveka
Friday 6 September 2013 | Published in Regional
The Avatiu Football Club will be hosting Titikaveka in today’s football matches scheduled to play at 4.15pm in the under 14 girls division followed by the Lotto Premiership at 5pm at the Avatiu Swamp.
Club rugby heads into semi finals
Thursday 5 September 2013 | Published in Regional
The CITC game of the week will be between the Avatiu Eels and the Arorangi Cowboys at the Avatiu field on Saturday.
ANZ renews support for junior tennis
Thursday 5 September 2013 | Published in Regional
Tennis Cook Islands has confirmed ANZ Bank as the key sponsor for the Tennis in Schools Junior Programme.
Taea breaks her national record
Thursday 5 September 2013 | Published in Regional
The disappointment of missing out on a medal in the Wallis and Futuna Pacific Mini Games women’s 100m sprint finals for national sprinter Patricia Taea was soothed by her setting a new national record.
McKenzie keen to sail to victory
Thursday 5 September 2013 | Published in Regional
Consistency will be the key to winning a medal at the Wallis and Futuna Pacific Mini Games for sole female sailor Teau McKenzie.
Masters to honour Epati
Thursday 5 September 2013 | Published in Regional
This Friday will see the masters take to the Tupapa grounds for a memorial game in honour of Tonumaivao Navy Epati who was a founding member of the Rugby League Masters movement and vice president of the Cook Islands Rugby League.
Parry takes out half marathon
Thursday 5 September 2013 | Published in Regional
The annual half marathon race saw the island’s runners complete a 21 kilometre circuit on Saturday.
Under 19 rugby clash today
Thursday 8 August 2013 | Published in Regional
A Cook Islands under 19 rugby team has been put together to take on the touring Whitgift College team from the UK today at Arorangi field kicking off at 4.30pm.
Lobb preps for masters
Tuesday 18 December 2012 | Published in Regional
Masters athlete David Lobb is readying himself for his 11th straight appearance at the New Zealand Masters Association’s track and field championships in Wellington next year. Lobb is getting into training for the 39th running of the event in March, and will be joined by fellow athlete and coaching champion Ake Hosea-Winterflood. Lobb picked up […]
Oceanscape the size of the moon
Friday 5 October 2012 | Published in Regional
This story about the Cook Islands marine park appeared on AsiaOne, a free-access website run by Singapore Press Holdings. The homepage and its micro-sites receive over 100 million page views per month. An ambitious plan to link marine parks across a vast swathe of ocean – whose surface area would equal that of the moon […]
Clinical CISA crush Navy cadets
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in Regional
An exhibition of rugby union by the Cook Islands Sports Academy saw them overwhelm the Australian Navy Cadet team 48-0. The CISA boys prepared well for this game but were surprised to see the opposition during warm up half an hour before the game practising their lineout and a few rugby union moves. It eventuated […]
15 triathletes in world champs
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in Regional
Fifteen Cook Islands triathletes are hard at work preparing for a world championship race in New Zealand later this month. The Cook Islands Triathlon Association has grown in leaps and bounds since its inception in 1995, and more so in the last 10 years. Every year the annual Air NZ International Triathlon has attracted more […]
Active kids encouraged
Wednesday 3 October 2012 | Published in Regional
The first day of the ‘Active Kids’ programme in Muri was smooth sailing as 30 kids met to spend the morning with Junior Charlie at Rarotonga Sailing Club. Well armed with a selection of sports gear, Charlie ran a great session of team sports and rest with some sailing thrown in. It was a beautiful […]
Arorangi and Tupapa top tables
Wednesday 3 October 2012 | Published in Regional
The Tupapa Maraerenga premier men’s football team and the Arorangi senior women’s team are currently leading the Lotto Premiership Men’s Championship and the CIPS Image & Copy Centre Women’s Championship respectively. They are closely followed by Nikao Sokattak premier men and the Titikaveka senior women’s team. In the under 17 SAVA round cup championship, Tupapa […]
Kiwi Cook Islanders ready for test
Wednesday 3 October 2012 | Published in Regional
They may be younger than their local opponents, but count the New Zealand Cook Islands under 12 rugby league side out at your peril. The team of 15 made up mostly from the South Auckland region has been playing rugby league in New Zealand for the last three years. Half of the original team, made […]
Praise for Red Cross helpers
Wednesday 3 October 2012 | Published in Regional
The impact of the three first-aid volunteers on the main Round Raro Road Race (RRRR) was immense, according to the Cook Islands Red Cross’ first aid coordinator Oropai Mataroa. While she had anticipated six volunteers would show up and help out on the morning of the event, Mataroa only ended up with a total of […]
Nemo's swimmers keen on learning
Tuesday 2 October 2012 | Published in Regional
Local triathlete and swim coach Vanessa Palmer, known to many as ‘Nemo’ after the cartoon fish for her exceptional swimming skills, is impressed with the energy and ability of Rarotonga children who took part in her first school holiday swim lessons yesterday. Palmer spent the better part of Monday morning helping form water confidence among […]
Experienced side for Cooks
Tuesday 2 October 2012 | Published in Regional
The Cook Islands’ national rugby league team will be at full strength to play Lebanon in Sydney on Sunday October 7 at the Crest Stadium in Bankstown. Lebanon narrowly missed out in the World Cup qualifying to Italy last year. The large Lebanese and Italian communities in Australia are very staunch supporters of rugby league […]
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