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

SWIMMING flows freely through the veins of respected Medowie sporting figure Michael Abel. For the past two decades, the Scottish native has devoted many hours to guiding the fortunes of his Stroud Seals Swimming Club hopefuls at the Lakeside Aquatic Centre in Raymond Terrace. You’ll find the local learning support teacher and