Supporters and contestants crowded around the start/finish line in Providence Bay Park. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. Cycling down Tuloa and Mungo Brush Road with dark grey skies keeping the sun’s heat at bay. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. The TGHN SLSC Water Safety team was ready in support. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. The Bennetts Beach MobiMats made life a […]
The Year 5 and 6 students engaging with mathematics at the Newcastle Permanent Primary School Mathematics Challenge.
Bright young minds explore wonders of numeracy
The Year 5 and 6 students engaging with mathematics at the Newcastle Permanent Primary School Mathematics Challenge. The Year 5 and 6 students engaging with mathematics at the Newcastle Permanent Primary School Mathematics Challenge. The Year 5 and 6 students engaging with mathematics at the Newcastle Permanent Primary School Mathematics Challenge. SOME of the Hunter’s […]
Shoal Bay’s Ali Mitchell is this year’s recipient of the NSW Touch Football Junior Female Player of the Year Award.
More accolades for Shoal Bay touch football starlet Ali Mitchell
IT has been a year of highlights and accolades for Shoal Bay’s touch football golden girl Ali Mitchell. The rising 18-year-old youth international experienced one of her proudest moments when named NSW Touch Football’s Junior Female Player of the Year for 2024-25. She was one of many elite athletes to be recognised at the recent […]
Barcelona Football Academy officials identified Hudson as a ‘special talent’ at an elite junior camp earlier this year.
Trip of a lifetime for emerging Port Stephens soccer juniors
Outstanding Medowie FC junior Hudson Turner will attend an intensive 10-day invitational training camp in Spain. Barcelona Football Academy officials identified Hudson as a ‘special talent’ at an elite junior camp earlier this year. PORT Stephens soccer whiz kids Hudson Turner and Zac Wood are bound for Spain. The outstanding prospects have been invited by […]
Stockton and Northern District Seagulls captured the Royce McCormack Cup second grade limited overs championship trophy.
Williams half century keeps all conquering Seagulls on top
SALAMANDER Bay cricketer Ed Williams has reason to smile after a bumper fortnight in the Newcastle District Cricket competition. The talented 20-year-old Stockton and Northern Districts all rounder is celebrating a trophy success with the club’s second grade line-up and a blazing half century to maintain the Seagulls’ winning ways. Williams played a role in […]
Rookie athlete Dre Elias, 8, a young sprinter to watch
PORT Stephens Athletics Centre has unearthed a real find in talented eight-year-old rookie Dre Elias. The budding sprinter was one of two Port Stephens club juniors to smash records at the recent Port Hunter Zone Athletics Championships staged at Mallabula Sports Complex. Competing at his first Zone championships, the dashing Elias claimed a gold trifecta […]
Former Nelson Bay junior Jeff Goninan smashed a superb 102 to guide Stockton and Northern Districts to victory over Wallsend.
Hot shot Jeff Goninan cracks brilliant 102 in Seagulls triumph
PORT Stephens cricketer Jeff Goninan may have retired from representative cricket but his value to the Stockton and Northern Districts first grade cricket team is immense. The former Nelson Bay junior’s batting skills were the main talking point last Saturday after the Seagulls rolled rivals Wallsend in their top of the table Newcastle District Cricket […]
Hawks Nest Golf Club reclaims Tournament of the Year at the 2025 Golf Industry Awards
HAWKS Nest Golf Club (HNGC) has done it again, reclaiming the prestigious Tournament of the Year title at the 2025 NSW Golf Industry Awards for the Hawks Nest Beachside Pro Am. The event first won the award in 2023, backed it up as a finalist in 2024, and has now returned to the top with […]
Sophie Bradbery (left) pictured with her mother Jodi Cassar and in-laws Kristy Bradbery and Nathan Bradbery at the awards night.
Community honour for Port Stephens netball volunteer Sophie Bradbery
Port Stephens Netball ambassador Sophie Bradbery was a joint winner of Netball NSW Community Volunteer of the Year Award with Bathurst’s Julia Morrissey. Sophie Bradbery (left) pictured with her mother Jodi Cassar and in-laws Kristy Bradbery and Nathan Bradbery at the awards night. WHEN local netballer Sophie Bradbery lost her brother Nicholas Johnson to suicide […]
The Junior Girls sprinters who won gold in the 4 x 100m relay final at the Port Hunter Zone Athletics Championships: Scarlett Lodge, 9; Matilda Shawyer, 10; Evie Gentle, 11, and Winter Robson, 10,
Record breaking feats by top Raymond Terrace Athletics Centre juniors
EMERGING race walker Audrey Russell has continued her record breaking feats on the athletics track. Audrey, 14, was one of four Raymond Terrace Athletics Centre prospects to smash records last weekend at the annual Port Hunter Zone Athletics Championships at Mallabula Sports Complex. Competing in hot conditions, the talented junior underlined her potential when she […]
