Blown Away by Birthday Blessings
The gsport4girls initiative celebrated its sixth birthday in Joburg on Monday, and the messages of support and encouragement was literally overwhelming as telephone calls, sms, facebook and twitter dedications flooded in throughout the day between stunning coverage on 2OCeansVibe online streaming radio and Joburg’s No.1 Hit Music Station, 94.7 Highveld Stereo.
Three Tests in Olympic Hopes
South Africa’s Henna du Buisson on her way to putting South Africa into the lead in the first of three tests played against Canada in January, 2007, which South Africa won 3-0. Picture: Jackie Wiese. The SPAR women’s hockey team are attending a training camp at the High Performance Centre at Pretoria University this week, […]
SA Line Canada Up in Olympic Quest
South Africa’s Lesle-Ann George launches an attack against the USA during the Argentina 4 Nations Cup in Mendoza, Argentina, during January. South Africa narrowly lost the match 0-1. Picture: Matias Noe Correa Arce (MNCA Photographe) There are less than six months before the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing in August, and the SPAR […]
SA Look to Build on Win
The South African women’s hockey side will be looking to build on their first Test victory when they clash with Ireland at Hartleyvale on Tuesday evening (start 7pm).
Two Tours for Olympic Warm-Ups
Next year is an Olympic year, and the SPAR South African hockey team have moved into preparation gear with international matches lined up from early in 2008.
Hockeyroos Bound for South Africa
The SPAR South African women’s team easily qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing next year, winning the African qualifying tournament in Nairobi without breaking into a sweat.
Olympic Training Squad Announced
Lesle-Ann George (back), Marsha Marescia (front left) and Tarryn Hosking of SPAR South Africa seem a little out-numbered in their second Good Luck Beijing match against hosts China early August. China won 3-0. Picture courtesy Good Luck Beijing. Hockey South Africa has announced the names of a 31-woman Olympic Training Squad, despite rumours that […]
Giants Clash at Hartleyvale
Northerns produced a stirring second half fightback to take the bragging rights into their bronze medal playoff with KwaZulu Natal Raiders after winning a nine-goal thriller on the penultimate day of the Spar women’s hockey interprovincial at Hartleyvale Stadium in Cape Town on Friday.
A Section IPT Clashes Loom
The dominant form exhibited by the top two provincial hockey squads, current champs Western Province and their Highveld nemesis Southerns, has once again pitted the two against each other in the championship final of the 2007 SPAR Hockey IPT on Friday.
Province Keep Eye on Title
SPAR Women’s Hockey IPT, Hartleyvale Stadium, Cape Town, Reg Caldecott, Sharne Bailey, Anika Fischer, Tammy Boggenpoel, Dirkie Chamberlain, Marcelle Keet Carla Botha opened the score for Southern Gauteng shortly before half-time from a field-goal for a one-nil half-time score against the KZN Midland team, in the Highveld team’s championship title quest in the […]
Best Hockey Festival Result
A last-gasp effort by the German goalkeeper, Yvonne Frank, robbed South Africa of what would have been a well-deserved victory over the third ranked team in the world in the Spar Hockey Festival at the Stellenbosch University’s Astro Turf on Wednesday. The teams drew 2-2.
World Champs for Hockey Festival
Stellenbosch will be the centre of attention for all hockey lovers towards the end of this year and early in 2007, when 22 international matches will be played in the SPAR Hockey Festival at the Stellenbosch University Sport Performance Institute.