Te Awamutu Special Olympian Matthew Smith has been chosen to represent New Zealand in the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin. Matthew has Russell-Silver syndrome, a genetic growth disorder, and is one of 40…
Te Awamutu Special Olympian Matthew Smith has been chosen to represent New Zealand in the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin. Matthew has Russell-Silver syndrome, a genetic growth disorder, and is one of 40…
Special Olympics Te Awamutu hosted their final Special Olympics swim meet of the season on Sunday ahead of the national championships. Eleven clubs and 110 athletes from the greater Waikato region competed at the Te…
Waipā-born athletes have excelled at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Cambridge squash queen Joelle King picked up two gold medals in Birmingham this week to take her career medal tally from four Commonwealth Games to…
The Te Awamutu BMX Club is celebrating after one of its members picked up a Commonwealth Games gold medal and two others shone at the BMX world champs – where one finished with a ranking…
Street parades will be held in Waipā for the district’s Commonwealth Games athletes to recognise their achievements in Birmingham. The games still have another four days to go so there might be even more successes…
Te Awamutu youngsters soaked up some of the atmosphere last week at a promotion event in Hamilton for next year’s football World Cup. The women’s tournament will be held in Australia and New Zealand and…
Waipā has acknowledged another seven of its finest – including six from Te Awamutu. The latest inductees to the Te Awamutu Walk of Fame announced this week are father and son wrestlers Brian and Shane…
Hautapu’s win in the battle for Waipā rugby supremacy at the weekend ended the season for Te Awamutu Sports. Hautapu saw off Te Awamutu 32-3 in a sudden death clash. Tairoa Crean played…
Ask any cyclist at the Cambridge Velodrome who the most important person on the track is and most would point towards Jarrod Gilbert. As a world class competitor himself, the 28-year-old Cambridge caretaker understands the…
The battle of the Waipā high schools saw Te Awamutu College, St Peter’s and Cambridge High back competing on the sporting fields for the first time in four years last week. It was Cambridge that…
