3/10/2008 | A host of Hunter Valley Grammar School students are in love with their new-found sporting outlet.
The school produced seven NSW Combined Independent School representatives for the National Schools Touch Football Championships in Coffs Harbour from September 18 to 21.
2/10/2008 | Maitland Grossmann High has unearthed Maitland’s newest track sensation.
1/10/2008 | After almost 60 years Maureen Mordue has quite rightfully taken her place in Hunter harness racing history.
Mordue was awarded the third annual Ros Falconer Award for contribution to the industry at the Robert Dundee Club, Newcastle Harness Racing Club and Hunter Valley Harness Racing Association combined presentation night at the Monte Pio last Friday.
30/09/2008 | Kurri Kurri’s Attitude Angels are hot property.
The under-11s netballers were crowned iPRIME Sportsplay’s Hottest Team of the month for September.
29/09/2008 | East Maitland body builder Luke Belcher is keeping it natural, and why wouldn’t he.
The 21-year-old stole the show at the Newcastle Northern Classic body building competition at Panthers on September 21.
25/09/2008 | Telarah Public School has taken home the second annual Inter-schools Shield after triumphing over Rutherford Primary yesterday.
24/09/2008 | Six Maitland sporting clubs will get their piece of Telstra’s $1.25 million fund supporting grassroots and community sporting programs.
24/09/2008 | Tenambit Public School is fast becoming the toast of the State primary school sports circuit.
The school has unearthed five State athletic contenders bound for next month’s Primary School Sports Association State Championships as part of the Hunter team.
23/09/2008 | Eight Maitland business houses were allocated their canine representatives for the Business Houses Spring Maiden and the Business Houses Spring Trophy yesterday.
23/09/2008 | For Clifton Richardson, going eight seconds on the back of an 800kg bull is just what he does ... and he does it well.
Richardson’s ability to stay aboard Australia’s prize rodeo bulls won him a ticket to the international heartland of his sport.
18/09/2008 | Maitland horse trainer Peter Eggleston will join some of the biggest names in Australian racing at Broadmeadow today.
Eggleston’s two four-year-olds Maccacino and Just Rusty will feature in the Newcastle Cup Day line-up.
18/09/2008 | East Maitland Public School teacher Christie Dawes was absolutely thrilled with her silver medal performance at the Beijing Paralympics. And she wasn’t the only one.
17/09/2008 | Maitland District Motorcycle Club is a Motorcycling Australia affiliated club, which is the longest standing motorcycle club in Australia.
15/09/2008 | Daniel Carmody was born to be a harness racing driver.
The Louth Park 19-year-old has a rich family heritage in the sport, with both of his grandfathers spending years in the gig.
15/09/2008 | Rodeo enthusiasts flocked to Maitland Showground on Saturday night to see the top bull riders in the country do battle.
Both junior and senior competitors took to the main ring in a bid to collect as many Australian Bushman’s Campdraft and Rodeo Association points before the end of the regular season.
12/09/2008 | The nation’s top cowboys and cowgirls will be pitted against the feistiest bucking stock in the land when the national rodeo circuit rolls into Maitland on Saturday.
The charity event has attracted an overwhelming number of entrants, including most of the current leaders in the Australian Bushman’s Campdraft and Rodeo Association (ABCRA) national standings.
12/09/2008 | Rutherford decathlete Matthew Harris is literally flying higher than ever before after getting a two-week pole vaulting master class in the US.
Harris spent two weeks training with Kansas University’s pole vault coach Tom Hays, who, according to Harris, is the man to thank for him gaining an extra 60cm on one of the sport’s least desirable apparatuses.
11/09/2008 | Bolwarra Public School will join the State’s prize athletic breeding grounds at next week’s State titles.
11/09/2008 | East Maitland Public School teacher Christie Dawes is optimistic despite receiving a rude welcoming to the Beijing Paralympics.
The 28-year-old wheelchair athlete was told upon arriving at her fourth Paralympics that she would not be eligible to compete in the women’s marathon event because Beijing organisers had changed qualifying rules.
10/09/2008 | The Newcastle branch of the Caduceus Club yesterday honoured the region’s most outstanding harness racing achievements for 2008.
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