Queenstown hosted a confident Wanaka on what can only be described as the best grass playing field in the South Island. With just four minutes played, first blood was drawn by Queenstown with their first attack. New Zealand U20s international, Willem...... Read More

The Upper Clutha women’s hockey team played their last game of the season on Saturday vying for third place against fast-paced Matakanui. Although armed with a goalie this week, with a number of its key players missing Upper Clutha had, once again,...... Read More

Seventeen-year-old Jack East is the first Mount Aspiring College (MAC) student to be selected for a Highlanders team while still attending the school. The rugby player recently attended the Highlanders U18 training camp in Dunedin and was chosen to...... Read More

A 24-18 win against St Kevin’s College at home in Wanaka on Saturday 20 July means the Mt Aspiring College First XV have finished in sixth place in the first round of the Otago Premier Schools competition. With both teams in the hunt for a place...... Read More

With no coach, no supporters, no subs and no goalie (the latter playing for the U18 Southern team in Auckland), the Upper Clutha Senior Women’s team faced an uphill battle in their game against Queenstown.  While they could have defaulted,...... Read More

The Wanaka bowls team, after seeming set for an easy victory, had a narrow escape to beat neighbourly rivals Hawea by the slightest of margins. The annual challenge between the clubs for the Val and Cliff Garrett Trophy was held on Sunday, July 7, in...... Read More

Maggie Dougherty of Upper Clutha Hockey has been selected for the Central Otago Under 15 Girls’ hockey team. She, along with 17 other girls, will attend a coaching session with Sporting Edge on Saturday afternoon in Cromwell.  Her mother,...... Read More

Wanaka hosted title favourites Roslyn Wakari at Wanaka Recreation Centre last Saturday. Danillo Santana and John Skilton came in to the starting 11 to replace the injured pair of Fletcher Cavanagh and Blair Scoullar. Both teams competing well in the...... Read More

Snow Sports NZ has set up agreements with every commercial ski area in New Zealand, along with many overseas, to aid disabled people in experiencing adaptive snow-sports.  The organisation aims to support those with permanent functional impairments...... Read More

England-born Hamish McLean’s parents moved to Auckland when he was three. A year later he learned to swim. Next year he’s going to the Tokyo Paralympics, aged 20.  “At the end of 2009 we moved from Auckland down to Wānaka, where...... Read More