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Sports
Mauke celebrates Christmas with traditional sports and festive cheer
The people of Mauke celebrated Christmas with a week of festivities, including traditional sports, netball, touch rugby, volleyball, a night market and a string band competition, culminating in a fireworks display last night. Nicolea Mateariki reports.
Touch Deez, Vonnias Vikings claim Boxing Day Touch titles
The Vonnias Boxing Day Touch wrapped up 2024 for Cook Islands Touch with Team Touch Deez crowned champions in the competitive category and Team Vonnias Vikings taking the title in the social category.
Commonwealth Games off to a spectacular start
A Commonwealth Games that once appeared doomed exploded into life with a dazzling opening ceremony that put a modern spin on a sporting event often seen as a relic of the British Empire’s colonial past.
Netball gears up for showdown
In the repeat of last year’s final, Titikaveka will take on Avatiu in the 2022 Rarotonga Netball Club competition premier final this Saturday.
Ready for the Games!
Team Cook Islands is all excited and looking forward to the much-anticipated official opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games this morning.
Thrills and spills at rugby final
Tupapa Panthers’ four year in a row win in the Rarotonga Club 15s competition came to an end on Saturday.
Cook Islands receive warm welcome from Frampton on Severn Bowls Club
An international bowls team has been preparing to compete in the Commonwealth Games by training at a village club in Gloucestershire.
Bowling pair named Team Cook Islands’ flagbearers
National bowlers Aidan Zittersteijn and Nooroa Mataio have been announced as Team Cook Islands’ co-flagbearers for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Avatiu Eels dethrone Panthers
In a thrilling Rarotonga Club 15s final decided in extra time play, Avatiu Nikao Eels dethroned four-time champions Tupapa Panthers at Victoria Park on Saturday.
Cooks bow out of OFC Women’s Nations Cup
Host nation Fiji are through to the semi-finals of the OFC Women’s Nations Cup 2022 after overcoming a stubborn Cook Islands side at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva, Fiji.
Calm before the storm
Defending champions Tupapa Panthers are eyeing a rare five in a row win when they take on arch-rivals Avatiu Nikao Eels in the Rarotonga Club 15s final this afternoon at Victoria Park.
Cooks out of World Cup
Cook Islands netball team will not be featuring in the Netball World Cup 2023 after failing to make the top two cut at the Qualifiers in Suva, Fiji.
TKV through to Opens finals
The Rarotonga Netball Club competition open 1 and 2 semi-finals played on Wednesday.
Cooks to battle Fiji in quarters
Cook Islands will take on giants Fiji in the OFC Women’s Nations Cup quarter-finals on Saturday at 6pm (Cook Islands time) in Suva.
Cooks lose to Samoa
The Cook Islands netball side played the undefeated Tonga in the do or die match at the World Cup last night.
Iro signs on at the Sharks until 2024
A standout with the Newtown Jets this season in their climb into first position on the KOE NSW Cup ladder, young outside back Cook Islander Kayal Iro has signed a new contract with the Sharks, one that ties him to the Cronulla Club through until the end of the 2024 season.
Debutantes impress in World Cup opener
Cook Islands netball coach Joy Bates was impressed with the performance of debutantes who featured in the national team’s opening World Cup Qualifiers match on Tuesday night in Suva, Fiji.
Cooks through to quarters
The Cook Islands women’s football side is through to the quarter-finals despite losing their final pool match on Monday night.
Cook Islands outclass Papua New Guinea in World Cup Qualifiers
Cook Islands thumped Papua New Guinea Pepes 66-48 in its opening World Cup Qualifiers match in Suva, Fiji, last night.
Meninga seeks eligibility clarity
Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga is preparing to select a World Cup train-on squad and wants dual eligible players to declare which nation they are going to play for.
Arorangi through to semis
Arorangi survived a tit-for-tat battle against Tupapa to make it through to next week’s premier semi-finals.
Black Pearls ready to play with ‘pride and passion’
Cook Islands netball side is ready to take on Papua New Guinea in its opening match at the World Cup Qualifiers in Suva, Fiji tonight at 7.30pm (Cook Islands time).
