Sport / March 2015
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News: Weekly newsletter for 31 March
- Olympic Harriers
- Itand#39;s Easter -- run like a hare? A good start to the season with plenty ...
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Wellington City Council’s Basin Reserve Masterplan and Greater Wellington’s Climate Change Strategy
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Wellington City Council’s Basin Reserve Masterplan Wellington City Council is finally developing a Basin Reserve Masterplan.
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Swindale Shield Round Two preview: Many questions still to be answered
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The Johnsonville Hawks were more competitive against Marist St Pat's in their first match than the 8-52 scorelines suggests.
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Chris Eves adds to ‘Canes strong depth
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Chris Eves packing down at tighthead prop in a Wellington club rugby Swindale Shield match in mid-2013 for his then club the Wests Roosters against Marist St Pat’s.
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News: And we are off - start of 2015 season
- Olympic Harriers
- Opening day atandnbsp;Clubrooms, Bannister Ave Johnsonville, Saturday 28th Mar, ...
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Wellington against International teams: versus Australia 1931
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: His Excellency the Governor General Lord Bledisloe meeting the Wellington players before the match against Australia.
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Finalists confirmed but Hazlett still on the Line
- Cricket Wellington
- After another frustrating day of rain the Pearce Cup Finalists have been found.
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April 18- Smash Malice vs Comic Slams
- Richter City Roller Derby
- Richter City’s first home game of the season sees the 2014 winners Smash Malice take on the Comic Slams. With fresh faces and new line ups, this is guaranteed to be a great game. Come dressed to support your favourite team. Black and leopard print for Smash Malice and Silver and Blue for Comic Slams. With a more cosy and homegrown atmosphere, fans will have...
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Simon Puffett seminar 2 – 3 May 2015, Wellington
- Aikido Shinryukan Wellington
- Instructor Sensei Simon Puffett, 5th Dan Aikido Shinryukan Cost Single day: $30 Two days: $50 Account details Venue Aikido Tenshindo Wellington 2 Drummond Street, Mt Cook, Wellington Registration Fill out the online registration form to register for the seminar (form not yet available) Go to our seminar page for all upcoming seminars
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Taita Celebrate Centurions
- Cricket Wellington
- On Sunday 22nd of March as part of Taita Cricket’s annual Taitanium lunch, the club recognised and celebrated the current and past premier players who have played 100 premier games for Taita.
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Four Months To Save The Basin: NZ Transport Agency’s High Court Appeal Set Down For Monday 20 July
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Here’s what you need to know: Short version: We have four months to raise $50,000 to fight the Transport Agency in the High Court for the future of the Basin Reserve.
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21 March- Richter City All Stars vs Dunedin Derby Gallow Lasses
- Richter City Roller Derby
- Wellington’s Richter City Roller Derby is kicking off the 2015 season! Our All Stars will take the track at Kilbirnie Recreation Centre on Saturday 21 March against Dunedin Derby Gallow Lasses. Pre-sale tickets are $13 through Eventfinder Door sales are $15 for adults, $10 for children and $45 for family (2 adults, 2 children) Doors open from 6pm, game starts at 7pm!
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Some close results and exciting rugby marks Gala Day opening
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: James So’oialo racing away past opposing captain Tane McMillan-Parata to score a try as part of his 35-point haul today for Tawa against Paremata-Plimmerton.
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New website for Swim Wellington
- Swimming Wellington
- Swimming Wellington’s new website will be live from the 31 March 2015. Please note the change in URL address to; Swimming Wellington’s new website URL: www.wellington.swimming.org.nz from 31 March 2015 Make sure spread the word. The old website will be re-directed to the new URL with arrangements just being finalised.
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Swindale Shield and Harper Lock Shield competitions starting tomorrow
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Marist St Pat's celebrate winning the Swindale Shield in last season's 'virtual final' match against 2013 champions Tawa.
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Smylie’s swansong season with ‘Canes could be the best yet
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Chris Smylie playing for his current Wellington club Old Boys-University two seasons ago.
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Be the Change, Shape the Way
- Cricket Wellington
- Cricket Wellington are holding a forum for girls & womens cricket on Wednesday 8th April providing an overview of the current environment; briefly sharing actions over the past two years and explaining the present situation.
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Class secondary school leavers sidelined for start of Swindale Shield
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: TJ Va’a (Scots College) making a break and getting away from Jared Adams (St Pat’s Silverstream, headgear) in last year’s Wellington First XV final.
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Backing the BLACKCAPS is the Wellington way
- Cricket Wellington
- The ICC Cricket World Cup has seen Wellington become a hive of activity over the past month, and with the BLACKCAPS taking on West Indies in the quarter final this Saturday, the city is preparing for another big week.
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A mix of familiar and new faces in 2015 squads
- Wellington Club Weekly
- A mix of familiar and new players will step out on to Trentham Memorial Park this coming Saturday for Wellington club rugby’s Gala Day opening set of Swindale Shield matches.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Long Gully
- Wellington Mountain Bike Club
- Long Gully - the end of an era.
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Wellington against International teams: versus Great Britain 1930
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: spectators on the once notorious western bank at Athletic Park settle in to watch Wellington take on Great Britain in 1930 Match details Result: Wellington 12 – Great Britain 8When: 4 June 1930, at Athletic Park.
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Summer Interclub Week 3 results + Division 3’s continued draw
- Table Tennis Wellington
- It’s all here: 2015 Summer Interclub 11 March – Premier 2015 Summer Interclub 11 March – Divisions 2015 Summer Interclub draw continued for Division 3 Below is a picture taken by Reg Feuz of two of the old timers of TTW: Brian Hearfield and Bob Knight who hadn’t seen each other in years and had […]
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Onslow claim T20 title Securing unbeaten Season
- Cricket Wellington
- Onslow Cricket Club have claimed the 2014/15 double with a dominant bowling display to win the Maureen Peters T20 Plate.
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MetroLeague 1 Points
- Swimming Wellington
- Meet points at the end of meet 1 MetroLeague 2015 points table 15.03.15
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Result: Capital Punishment
- Olympic Harriers
- Perfect conditions greeted the 54 starters for the fourth running of the ...
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The Flying Squadron is you
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Join the Flying Squadron this year and become part of the energy and excitement of the Hurricanes in 2015.
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Big Numbers attend Coaching Foundation Course
- Cricket Wellington
- A well attended Foundation Coaching Course was recently delivered in Waterloo Primary School educating 26 teachers on the basics of cricket coaching.
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Australian Age Group Team announcement
- Swimming Wellington
- On behalf of Swimming New Zealand we would like to announce the Team that will be attending 2015 Australian Age Group Championships held in Sydney. Please click here to find who has been selected. In particular congratulations to Chelsey Edwards – SwimZone, Elena Forlong & Shannon Schimanski both from Wanganui
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Primary Schoolgirls take on our favourite Kiwi Summer Game
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- Over 100 girls across Years 5-8 had a great day out in Ngatitoa Domain at the last Quikhit tournament for 2014/15.
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Spillane tournament in Napier this weekend
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: HOBM’s Tomasi Alosio running on to a pass by Alexis Time in last year’s Spillane tournament opener against Auckland Marist.
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Rey Lee-Lo making welcome return to Hurricanes
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Rey Lee-Lo making a bust against the Crusaders in their pre-season match in Eketahuna in January Rey Lee-Lo’s welcome return to the Hurricanes this season is only the beginning of a massive 2015 in his rugby career.
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Swimming Wellington All Stars TiD Programme
- Swimming Wellington
- Recently Swimming Wellington have been working on a new initiative for competitive swimmers, registered with Swimming Wellington, and would like to share with our clubs, those selected and to provide further understanding of the programme, and the selection process for swimmers, for those wishing to work towards selection into the programme in 2016.
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Result: Tarawera Ultramarathon
- Olympic Harriers
- Jackie Holley: 1st W40-49, 100km, 10:15:54; Kate Jenkins: 2nd W50-59, 100km, 12...
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Day 1 rain halts any significant progress
- Cricket Wellington
- Heavy rain on Friday and Saturday meant that day 1 of round 4 failed to progress past the opening pleasantries in the Pearce Cup.
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Community groups join together to back Board of Inquiry decision on a Basin Reserve flyover
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Local groups that believe the decision by the Board of Inquiry into the Basin Bridge project should stand, are energetically raising funds to defend the decision against the New Zealand Transport Agency’s appeal to the High Court.
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Junior Development Camps
- Swimming Wellington
- SNZ have today release the names of those swimmers selected for the camps throughout New Zealand.
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A chat with Wellington rugby legend Nev MacEwan
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Nev MacEwan holds the Jubilee Cup aloft after captaining his club Athletic to victory in 1965.
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2015 College Rugby schedule released
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Scots College celebrate winning the Hurricanes region final last August against Palmerston North Boys' High School.
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Wellington against International teams: versus South Africa 1921
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Petone, Wellington and All Blacks halfback Harry 'Ginger' Nicholls making a break in the Dunedin Test between the All Blacks and the Springboks in 1921.
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Men’s Interclub Results – 7th March 2015
- Waikanae Golf Club
- Congratulations to the winning Waikanae Men’s Interclub Team representatives. The Waikanae Div 1 Schroder Cup team beat Royal Boulcott’s Farm Heritage 8.5 / 6.5 at Waikanae – (full match results). The Waikanae Div 5 Dave Barclay Trophy team beat Te Marua 11.5 / 3.5 at Waikanae – (full match results). The results for the Waikanae […]
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Who are the single season points and try scoring record holders?
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Brandyn Laursen (left) and Mike Clamp (right) who we think hold the respective Wellington club rugby single season points and try scoring records.
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Rowing NZ announces Elite and U23 Squad
- Petone Rowing Club
- The NZ rowing Squad has been named and it features two PRC rowers (EM & Beth) + Axel (who has recently transferred to Wairau)Details are herePRC had four of its athletes selected to trial for the Elite and U23 squad off the back of a very successful 2014/15 season (James McAnallen, Jamie Saunders, Erin-Monique O’Brien and Beth Ross).
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MetroLeague 2015
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- The 2015 MetroLeague begins on 15 March at Huia Pool, with two sessions schedule at the one facility.
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Hurricanes Development team run down by Knights
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Hurricanes Development team went down 21-38 to the Crusaders Knights at a warm and sunny Porirua Park this afternoon.
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Summer Interclub Round 2 Results
- Table Tennis Wellington
- Week 2 results are below: 2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Premier 2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Divisions FYI the draw schedules are here.
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Commuting by bicycle in Wellington
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- In the past few years the number of people I see on bikes riding from Newtown to town in the morning has literally quadrupled. Unfortunately, many of the people I see stopped at the lights are on seriously terrible bikes. I’m see rusty, too-big or too-small mountain bikes with brakes that barely work and people look unconfident and uncomfortable on their bikes. Riding the wrong bike can actually make cycling seriously not fun. Recently several of my colleagues have gotten bicycles with the intention of cycling to work. I have noticed that they too seem to have missed some items that to me are essential for bike commuting. Namely:
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University host Junior Cricket Fun Day
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- Victoria University of Wellington Cricket Club is hosting a Junior Cricket Fun Day at Kelburn Park on Sunday 15th March as a way of promoting junior cricket in the local community.
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First camp of the year for NZ U20 players
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The country’s best (uninjured and not playing Super Rugby) junior players will assemble in Palmerston North tomorrow for a training camp as New Zealand prepares for its assault on the Junior World Cup in Italy in June.
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Results – Kapiti Vets 2nd March 2015
- Waikanae Golf Club
- Kapiti Vets Waikanae were proud to host the Kapiti Vets with a field of 51 participating in the Mixed Stableford competition. Congratulations to the winners: Richard Starke 42 points Peter Mackintosh 41 points Brian Newton 39 points from Paraparaumu Beach Kevin Stratton 38 points from Otaki, jointly with John Peters & Stan Kennedy See the full […]
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Wellington College clinch McEvedy Shield
- College Sport Wellington
- You can't beat the McEvedy on a good day. Wellington College co-captain Robbie Delany described his school's McEvedy Shield triumph yesterday as the best day of his life: "There's nothing in the world like winning the McEvedy. It's a feeling like nothing else I've felt in my life.
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One last chance for M.Peters T20 final as Collegians victorious over Hutt
- Cricket Wellington
- With the sixth and final round of the home-away fixtures for the Maureen Peters T20 scheduled for Wednesday 4 March, unbeaten Onslow are the only team sitting in a secure position at the top of the table.
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Common mistakes in rowing and their remedies!
- Petone Rowing Club
- Peter Rowbotham kindly found and shared the following exerpt about common rowing mistakes and how to correct them.Read [PDF]
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Wellington against international teams: versus Anglo-Welsh 1908
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Pat McEvedy, and the famous athletics shield contested in his name (insert), was brought up in Wellington and later returned to live there but in this match he captained the Anglo-Welsh against Wellington.
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Club Rugby and Lovelocks to partner in 2015
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Club Rugby is pleased to announce their partnership with Lovelocks Sports Bar & Restaurant for 2015.
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