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Great day of sailing for season opening
Wednesday 13 June 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Rarotonga Sailing Club celebrated its opening day on Saturday with juniors enjoying a motor boat ride around the lagoon in the morning followed by the start of the Gould Trophy Series in the seniors racing in the afternoon. It was a great day for sailing with six Sunbursts and four sailing Vaka taking to the […]
Sailing sweeps sports awards
Thursday 3 May 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Cook Islands national sailors have cleaned up the major sports awards again this year taking out sportsman, sportswoman and junior sportsman and woman of the year titles. Manihiki sailors Taua Elisa and Helema Williams picked up the sportsman and woman of the year titles for the second year in a row as well as the […]
Basketball tips off
Tuesday 1 May 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Slam dunks and three pointers will be all the rage at the Telecom Sports Arena tonight where the first games of the Cook Islands Basketball Federation main season tip off. The tournament will run for 12 weeks and will see six women’s and six men’s teams battle it out for top honours. Each game will […]
Sailing glory on the lagoon
Monday 16 April 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Glorious sunshine and a moderate breeze made for fun times on the Muri lagoon with sailors of all ages and skills taking to the water to make the most of the good sailing conditions. Optimist sailors in the Silver Fleet, including sailors from the Rarotonga and Aitutaki Sailing Clubs, buzzed around their marked course as […]
Junior sailing numbers up
Saturday 31 March 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Junior sailing is experiencing a fantastic growth at the moment with nearly 40 juniors attending a Saturday Optimist session, in which the Rarotonga Sailing Club’s gold and silver fleets were in action, and joining training sessions for the club’s green fleet. Training days for gold and silver are Tuesdays and Thursdays with green on Wednesdays. […]
Basketball venue change
Tuesday 27 March 2012 | Published in Other Sports
This week’s matches in the basketball pre-season competition will be held at the Papa’aroa SDA Hall instead of its usual location at the Princess Anne Hall. The matches have been moved to accommodate the Tereora College annual general meeting at the Princess Anne Hall. In last week’s games, Ruaau Philo beat their rivals Kavera Philo […]
Sailing race officials wanted
Wednesday 21 March 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Sailors keen on finding out what it takes to manage a race will be able to pick the brain of an international judge this week. The Rarotonga Sailing Club is beginning a three-week race management course this week to help improve the local skill set and build on the number of races held here throughout […]
Battle of Philippines at basketball tonight
Wednesday 21 March 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Wednesday night basketballers will take to the courts tonight for their second week of play in the pre-season tournament. Ruaau Philippine proved itself the team to beat in the men’s competition in week one, beating opponents Vaimaanga 56-23 and eclipsing the scores of all the other teams. The next best scoring team for the round […]
Basketballers play for pride
Wednesday 14 March 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Village pride will be on the line tonight for the start of the pre-season basketball tournament which will be played out at the Princess Anne Hall at Tereora College. Six men’s and five women’s teams have registered to battle it out in the five-week pre-season tournament with all teams required to don your village colours. […]
New sailing recruits lap it up
Thursday 23 February 2012 | Published in Other Sports
One of the country’s top sailors Taua Elisa is blown away by the enthusiasm Titikaveka College and Te Uki Ou students have for the sport of sailing. Elisa is assisting sailing coach Junior Charlie and John Trego deliver the ‘learn to sail’ course to students from the two schools and he believes that their keenness […]
Basketball for kids at Potiki Sports
Saturday 11 February 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Fun basketball games are on the cards this morning in the first Potiki Sports programme of the year. The Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) Potiki Sports programme will begin at 9 o’clock this morning at the Telecom Sports Arena in Nikao for two hours. Basketball will be the main focus of the […]
11-hour marathon at basketball
Thursday 5 January 2012 | Published in Other Sports
Basketball enthusiasts spent the better part of Monday at the Telecom Sports Arena where the annual New Year basketball tournament was staged with plenty of action on display for spectators. Four womens teams and four mens teams entered the tournament which started around 10am on Monday and wrapped up around 9 oclock that night. The […]
Fancy some touch and basketball action?
Saturday 31 December 2011 | Published in Other Sports
Touch rugby and basketball are the two organised New Years sports events that will be held on Monday, January 2. No doubt family groups will be out having their own sporting fun too. Touch rugby players will be itching to get out of the house and onto the field after heavy rains caused the postponement […]
Basketballers court their destiny
Thursday 8 December 2011 | Published in Other Sports
Finals play has decided the end of the Turtles mixed basketball competition, with bragging rights up for grabs after 10 weeks of competition. Fifth and sixth places were decided between Moana Sands and Airport Jets. Moana Sands had danger man Rolando Parcon with 76 points for the season, and on the inside, the ever tenacious […]
Team CI sailors fly flag at sailing world championships
Monday 5 December 2011 | Published in Other Sports
Team Cook Islands Olympic scholarship sailors Helema Williams, Taua Elisa and Junior Charlie joined fellow sailors from 72 nations at the opening parade of the World Sailing Championships in Perth at the weekend. The following is a report from Team Cook Islands Sailors. Sailors and support crews go up the Swan River to Perth via […]
Sailing team off to Australia
Friday 25 November 2011 | Published in Other Sports
The Cook Islands 2012 London Scholarship Sailing team has been training hard at the Sailing Academy in Aitutaki after their successes at the 2011 Pacific Games in Noumea in August. The team of Helema Williams, Taua Elisa and Junior Charlie will leave Rarotonga this week to compete at the ISAF 2011 World Champs being held […]
Basketballers find their feet and their shots
Tuesday 11 October 2011 | Published in Other Sports
Week three of the Mixed Turtle Business House Basketball comp started out with Moana Sands up against CI-Travel. Both teams were eager for their first win in the competition, and the match would decide who that would be. But it wouldnt be until the second half until anyone would find out as by half time, […]
Turtles business house basketball fires off
Tuesday 27 September 2011 | Published in Other Sports
Last Tuesday night saw the start of the Turtles Mixed Business House Basketball Competition and despite blistering temperatures that day, all teams arrived cool, calm and collected at least in the beginning. The next round of games will be played tonight at the Telecom Sports Arena. Audiball and Moana Sands stepped into the arena first […]
Sailing sensations shining
Friday 2 September 2011 | Published in Other Sports
Cook Islands sailors are a class above the rest at the Pacific Games in Noumea where our womens duo of Helema Williams and Teau McKenzie are the talk of the Team Cook Islands camp. The cool headed teens were to take to the water for races 7 and 8 today with Helema recording two wins […]
Wind adds sailing challenge
Wednesday 3 August 2011 | Published in Other Sports
The final day of the Oceania Singlehanded Youth Sailing Championships on the Aitutaki lagoon saw reduced weather conditions but a healthy challenging wind of around 14-18 knots with flatter seas. The optimist fleet took to the water with places very close. With excellent techniques and solid tactics Duane George of Team Cook Islands won the […]