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Cook Islands diaspora embrace digital innovation to preserve Te Reo Māori
Two passionate Cook Islanders living in New Zealand have embarked on an ambitious project aimed at protecting and revitalising the Cook Islands language for future generations.
Govt consultations in NZ for Cook Islanders
The Cook Islands Government, led by Prime Minister Mark Brown, is preparing to engage with Cook Islands communities across Aotearoa New Zealand from November 18 to 22 in a week-long diaspora consultation.
Sports for NCEA credits
Titikaveka College students have been taking charge of the PE days at school as part of their NCEA assessments. Year 11 physical education students have spent this term studying an inter-personal skills unit with emphasis on communication. Every Friday the school spends the afternoon playing sports organised by the year 11 students. Yesterday sports included […]
U13 clash opens rugby weekend
Country rugby teams will head to town for week two of the CITC Rarotonga club rugby season starting with the under 13 clash between Tupapa-Maraerenga and Titikaveka. This match will be played at the Tupapa field as the club hosts their country brothers from Titikaveka. The under 13 match will be followed by the Senior […]
Tennis players prepare for tourney
Rarotonga tennis players are fine-tuning their skills ahead of next week’s International Tennis Federation Junior East Pacific Tournament. Local players have been taking part in the ANZ tennis stars tournament over the past three weeks to get in as much competition time ahead of the tournament. Up to 50 tennis players from host nation Cook […]
Rugby action comes to town
Week two of the CITC Rarotonga Club 15s will see all games being played at town venues Tupapa will host Titikaveka, Takuvaine host Ngatangiia while Arorangi will travel to the swamp to face Avatiu. Although the focus will be on the Senior A games, there will also be some interesting match-ups in the various age […]
Herman, Kenning triumph in Palm Grove tournament
The final round of the Palm Grove Golf Tournament last Saturday saw most of the second round leaders maintain their positions, but there were some good fight-backs during the day. In the senior men’s division, James Herman (212) extended his lead with the round of the day of 70 off the stick and win first […]
Utanga paddles after his dream
They reckon it takes 60,000km of slog to make a world-class kayaker, so young Cook Islander Josh Utanga has been doing some serious catching up. Every morning before training on the Gold Coast, the former Otumoetai (Tauranga, NZ) surf lifesaver paddles just over 2km from his home on the canal system to get to the […]
Taekwon do team to leave today
A team of local taekwon do students leave today for New Zealand to compete in the fifth annual Oceania Taekwon Do Tournament this weekend. Coach Upoko Poko and manager Poko Rongo will accompany them to the Wellington tournament. Two of the students – Ben Maaka and Tangi Akama – will also be celebrating birthdays during […]
Top time at Golden Oldies
Apii Rutaki has never seen the likes of a good Golden Oldies rugby game like the one played there this past Friday. It started on time and had 4×20 minute quarters and was attended by at least 70 players and even more spectators, cars and utes lining the main road – even a bus so […]
Cross-country wraps up
Nearly everyone turned up for the final race of the cross-country series last Thursday maybe because of the barbecue afterwards. Or perhaps it was because they had to, in order to get their final standings for the series, not to mention, you can’t win if you don’t do the last one. Everyone did very well, […]
'Kids in boats' learn the ropes
After weeks of learning the ropes, 12 new sailors received participation certificates for successfully completing the ‘Kids and Boats’ sailing course. On Saturday the young team gathered at the sailing club to show off their new sailing skills in the Optimist class. And judging by the wide grins on the faces of the new sailors […]
Top tries mark season openers
Titikaveka, Avatiu and the Ngatangiia premier grades all registered wins in the first week of the CITC 2010 rugby 15s season. The Titikaveka Bulldogs team kicked-off their season in style with a well deserved 32-14 win against the Takuvaine Warriors at the Titikaveka field. With the halftime score at 10-7 in favour of the Titikaveka, […]
Dragonflies face Pearls in final
The Avatiu Dragonflies premier grade netball team will meet the Titikaveka Pearls this weekend for the 2010 club netball season grand final. The Dragonflies disposed of the Takuvaine Red Divas 58-32 in their sudden death match on Saturday but Avatiu’s execution was less than convincing. And they will need to vastly improve and tighten up […]
Rugby season kicks off today
Rugby fans will get to see their heroes today as the first round of the CITC rugby season kicks off. The Senior A grade ‘CITC Game of the Week’ will be played between the Titikaveka Bulldogs and Takuvaine Warriors at the Titikaveka field. At this early-stage of the competition both teams are an unknown quantity. […]
Tourney heats up
Tomorrow (Saturday) is the final round of the 2010 Palm Grove Golf Tournament and, in just about all divisions, the winners are impossible to predict. With a packed course over the last two weeks for this ever-popular event, there have been some great scores in evidence. In the senior men’s division, James Herman extended his […]
Masters fit and fired up
Cook Islands masters athletes have always been successful at international meets and this year’s team preparing for the Oceania Championships in Tahiti look to continue that trend. A team of 19 athletes will represent the Cooks at the championships scheduled to be held between July 3 and 10. And it’s been full on training for […]
Ryan Nicholas stars for Japan
Cook Islander Ryan Nicholas, the son of local dentist Philip Nicholas, has helped his Asian Five Nations Champions team Japan record their first ever win over Samoa at the Pacific Nations Cup being played in Samoa. The fifth edition of the IRB-funded tournament is underway in Apia and is dubbed the penultimate tournament before the […]
Last in series
The fifth race of the cross country series took place again from outside the BCI Stadium last Thursday. The car park was packed with cars, but not from the runners as there was a Zumba festival going on in the stadium. A few runners were using this as a warm up for their race. With […]
2 new squads named
After the highly successful CITC pre-season sevens competition – players have been selected to train and form the Rarotonga senior sevens squad and a development squad. These players will compete in the CITC Constitution Cup sevens tournament in August and they will have the opportunity to be selected for the National sevens team that will […]
Sevens aims for the sun!
The Cook Islands Rugby Union has established a committee specifically tasked with exploring and ultimately setting out ways to develop rugby sevens in the Cook Islands with the aim of producing home grown talent to compete on the international stage. The committee consists of Puai Wichman, Lara Sadaraka, Karla Eggelton and Mike Henry. A report […]
Last prep games before 15s
The recent CITC pre-season sevens tournament has not only provided some fantastic action packed games but it has also been an opportunity for local players to ease back into the rugby union season. Avatiu were the eventual winners of the tournament in the senior A grade division – Avatiu defeating Ngatangiia 20-19 to win the […]
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