Draper’s Sarah Harvey had a satisfying week at the Australian BMX Championships held at the Sleeman Sports Centre at Chandler this month. The Pine Rivers BMX Club rider secured second place at the national titles, two days after being crowned champion in both the National Probikx Series and the Oceania Championships. Competing in the Junior Elite ...
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He was originally supposed to be fighting near his training venue this weekend, but instead Craig Hill Jr is about to step into the ring in the USA.Hill Jr, who grew up at Albany Creek, is in Chicago preparing for his international professional boxing debut under the guidance of ex-world champion Jeff Fenech.Hill Jr was scheduled to fight at ...
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Joyner’s Emma Jackson hopes to match the effort of training partner Sam Betten and claim a third straight Dirt ‘n’ Dust Triathlon title when she returns to Julia Creek next year.The Pine Rivers Triathlon Sports Club members won their respective women’s and men’s crowns in the outback town on 20 April. In a field of 450 competitors, Betten become ...
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Five star players from Pine Rivers St Andrews Hockey Club have won a state championship for their home town.
Craig Smith, Andrew Richards, Joel Farrell, Brent Garske and Scott Richards were members of the Toowoomba team that was victorious in the Queensland Open Championships last weekend.
Toowoomba was crowned Queensland champions for the first ...
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Samford Village’s Emma Whyte has arrived in Thailand as part of the touring under-18 Australian Junior Women’s Development Squad for volleyball. Whyte, who has been selected as a pass hitter, will join the squad in a training camp as well as a series of matches against the best under-21 teams from Thailand, in the host country’s junior national ...
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Five Pine Rivers Rowing Club members are hoping to make a splash when they take on the nation’s best older rowers in Canberra.
Ian Burley, Rueben Wild, David Reece, Ian Newell and Jim Boffey will head south next week for the Australian Masters Rowing Championships.
The rowers will take to the water at Lake Burley Griffin after leading their club ...
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The North
Queensland Cowboys will hit the turf at Arana Hills this Thursday in
preparation for their NRL grudge match against the Brisbane Broncos.Wests Arana
Rugby League Club will be hosting the Cowboys in their final training session
on 11 April before they clash with the Broncos the following night at Suncorp
Stadium. Arana Leagues
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If awards were given out for longevity and loyalty in local sporting circles, then Alan Robertson would definitely be a gold medal winner.
The Albany Creek resident joined his beloved Commercial Hockey Club as a 10-year-old in 1954 – and he has never left.
Robertson has just started his 60th consecutive season playing for the club nicknamed the ...
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Horse riders at Samford Riding for the Disabled (RDA) headquarters will soon be able to enjoy a ride without roasting while in the saddle.The group will receive $100,000 to build a shade structure at the Samford Showgrounds at Highvale, as part of the State Government’s bid to increase community participation in sport and recreation ...
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A Mt Pleasant resident has been honoured for undying commitment to the sport she loves.Debbie Sellin was awarded the Queensland Rugby League Outstanding Services Award in Brisbane this month.The Dayboro Rugby League Club stalwart first became involved with the club in the early-1990s when her son Clayton signed on to play for the Cowboys.Mrs Sellin ...
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From their early years of playing backyard footy, much has changed for three of the Creighton brothers.Lachlan, Byron and Jack Creighton are the eldest of six brothers from Camp Mountain, and are now chasing professional football careers across three states. Lachlan, 22, is part of the Queensland Reds ‘college’ squad, a development group that ...
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Josh McGuire and his Brisbane Broncos teammates are raring to get their NRL season underway when they host the Manly Sea Eagles on Friday night.The Eatons Hill resident will line up in the front row alongside skipper Sam Thaiday for the Round 1 clash, which will mark the 25th anniversary of the Broncos’ inclusion in the national competition.The ...
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