WARM but perfect surf conditions provided the backdrop for Round Two of the Central Coast/Hunter Surf Boat Series at Fingal Beach Surf Life Saving Club last Saturday. Crews from the Central Coast and Hunter SLSC branches and their 40 surf boats descended on Fingal Beach from 8am. The series has run for

ANNA Bay schoolboy Mason Kelman sits back with pride when he reflects on a memorable 2024 season of representative sport. The record-setting twelve-year-old from One Mile Beach stamped himself one of the most versatile athletes for his age when he earned NSW jumpers in both rugby league and rugby union, and

A GYMNASTICS background and penchant for CrossFit training prepared Raymond Terrace mother Kayla Pennicott for a successful transition into Australian Rules football. The recently elected Port Stephens Power AFL Club president was introduced to the sport back in 2019 and quickly established herself as one of the hardest working ruck rovers

NELSON Bay Junior Rugby Club’s exciting crop of juniors are demonstrating their silky skills in this year’s Hunter Junior Rugby Spring Sevens series. After three rounds, the young Gropers have posted impressive victories in the Under 13, 15 and 17-years age groups with running rugby the order of the day. Emerging prospect

PORT Stephens Athletics Club (PSAC) prides itself on family, fun and fitness and athletes striving to improve their own personal best achievements. With just under 200 registrations plus the acquisition of a new $18,000 timing gates system, the club has launched the 2024-25 season in a blaze of glory. Nine of Port

IT may be the smallest education institution in the region but Bobs Farm Public School in Port Stephens is standing tall in the pantheon of representative school athletics. Multi-talented twins Pippi and Fern Cullimore, and Ruby Mercer and Emilia Symon, have covered themselves in glory by sprinting their way into the

BOOM Stroud Seals prospect Will Bradshaw is a young swimmer in a big hurry. The talented teenager underlined his potential with a gold medal haul at the recent Aquablitz Long Course Qualifying meet at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. Seventeen-year-old Bradshaw, who represented Australia at the 2023 Global Games in France,

ACCOMPLISHED Port Stephens pickleball exponents John Grace and Leigh Phillips have been crowned national champions. The gifted duo clinched the Over 70s Mens Doubles title for 2.99 skill level at the recent Australian Pickleball Championships on the Gold Coast. Grace, of One Mile Beach, and Bobs Farm resident Phillips, remained unbeaten in

PORT Stephens Power AFL Club have secured the services of experienced representative dynamo Emma Chester for 2025. The former Nelson Bay Marlins junior is a huge acquisition for the Power club next season in its quest for major honours in the Central Coast Hunter AFL Black Diamond Plate senior women's competition. Chester