Sports

New home for Cook Islands Weightlifting

Friday 18 July 2014 | Published in Other Sports

Cook Islands Weightlifting has a new home base and the hosts are excited about finding fresh young talent to represent the country.

Other Sports


Hunt on for raw weightlifting talent

Friday 18 July 2014 | Published in Other Sports

Cook Islands Weightlifting is about to begin a talent scouting operation to find one young person with the raw potential to become a world-class weightlifter.

Other Sports


Football finals on today

Friday 18 July 2014 | Published in Football

Weather permitting, the junior five-a-side football teams will play their final match today at the CIFA complex in Matavera.

Football


Games village hit by virus

Thursday 17 July 2014 | Published in Other Sports

No Cook Islands athletes or officials have been affected by a diarrhoea and vomiting virus that has hit the Athletes' Village a week out from the start of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Other Sports


Cooks athletes settling in Glasgow

Thursday 17 July 2014 | Published in Other Sports

The 15 stars of the Cook Islands are flying high and proud in Glasgow with the first lot of Team Cook Islands athletes making sure to mark their home away from home with the national flag.

Other Sports


Beddoes clocks personal best

Thursday 17 July 2014 | Published in Other Sports

Cook Islands track athlete Alex Beddoes has clocked a new personal best time in his specialty 800m event on the eve of making his Commonwealth Games debut for Team Cook Islands.

Other Sports


League star in demand

Wednesday 16 July 2014 | Published in League

Aspiring Cook Islands rugby league star Tepai Moeroa has been named in the starting second row of the Parramatta Eels NRL team, alongside returning New South Wales State of Origin team superstar Jarryd Hayne.

League


Final battle in junior football

Wednesday 16 July 2014 | Published in Football

Junior five-a-side football teams will play out their final games today and victorious teams will be awarded with trophies and bragging rights.

Football


Optimist sailing to teams racing

Wednesday 16 July 2014 | Published in Other Sports

Fifteen rising Cook Islands junior sailors will take to the water this Thursday and Friday for the 2014 teams racing championships along with 20 Kiwi youth sailors.

Other Sports


Rippa rugby, netball in Titikaveka

Tuesday 15 July 2014 | Published in Other Sports

Titikaveka field and netball courts will be buzzing on Wednesday as future rugby and netball stars gather for the Cook Islands News Rarotonga Primary School Rippa Rugby tournament that runs alongside the inter-primary school netball competition.

Other Sports


Junior netters shine at grand finals

Tuesday 15 July 2014 | Published in Netball

While the exciting premier netball game between Titikaveka and Takuvaine wrapped up Saturday’s grand final games – it was the babes that really brought the netball fever and excitement to the courts.

Netball


Bulls reign in the Cowboys

Monday 14 July 2014 | Published in Rugby Union

A strong finishing Titikaveka Bulls rammed home a 38-19 victory against the Arorangi Cowboys in Saturday’s match in a match that could have gone either way.

Rugby Union


Pearls crowned netball queens

Monday 14 July 2014 | Published in Netball

Heartbreak was hard to swallow for the Takuvaine Red Devils premier netball grade team who, despite an outstanding performance on court, were unable to contain the classy and fast-finishing Titikaveka Pearls.

Netball


Cooks students shine on Taekwon-Do stage

Monday 14 July 2014 | Published in Other Sports

Cook Islands Taekwon-do athletes held their own during the sixth Oceania International Tournament held in the Cooks earlier this month and marking a special milestone in the local associations history.

Other Sports


Two rounds left in junior soccer

Friday 11 July 2014 | Published in Football

With only two rounds to go in the junior five-a -side football competition, today’s games will be highly competitive as teams jockey for top honours at the CIFA complex in Matavera.

Football


Rugby scholarship recruiters arrive

Friday 11 July 2014 | Published in Rugby Union

Rangiora High School rugby coaches touch down on Rarotonga today for five days to search for rugby and academically talented local boys for their next round of scholarships.

Rugby Union


Rugby: Mouth guards compulsory

Thursday 10 July 2014 | Published in League

After an initial grace period at the start of the rugby season the “no mouth guard, no play” rule comes into effect this week.

League


New personal best time before Youth Olympics

Thursday 10 July 2014 | Published in Other Sports

Cook Islands youth swimmer Temaruata Strickland is on track for a strong showing at the Nanjing Youth Olympics after setting new personal best swim times.

Other Sports


Election delays netball finals

Wednesday 9 July 2014 | Published in Netball

Today’s general election has seen the scheduled open one and two netball grand finals tonight pushed back to next Wednesday.

Netball


All on at junior soccer

Wednesday 9 July 2014 | Published in Football

It will be all on at the CIFA soccer fields in Matavera today as junior five-a-side football players give it all they’ve got in the pitch with just one round left in the competition.

Football


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