FORMER Australian Opals player Annie La Fleur visited Coffs Harbour last week to run an Indigenous basketball camp at Sportz Central. La Fleur represented Australia at the Sydney Olympics as part of the silver medal winning Opals team, and…
COFFS Harbour product Locky Miller has been selected for Australia’s Olympic Rugby Sevens team and flies out to the Tokyo Olympics later this month to represent Australia. Rugby Australia announced the 12-man team last Saturday 3 July which Locky…
NORTHERN NSW Football announced Phil Lynch as the North Coast Football, Newcastle Permanent Community Coach of the Month for June. Phil was nominated by Bellingen FC for his commitment over the duration of his service to the club where…
NORTH Coast Men of League have once again provided valuable support towards Group 2 Junior Rugby League. The Men of League Foundation presented $1000 to the Woolgoolga Seahorses and Orara Valley Tomahawks junior clubs, as part of the North…
THE NSW Waratahs have won their fourth straight Buildcorp Super W trophy in Coffs Harbour defeating the Queensland Reds 45-12. It was a dream final for Coffs Harbour’s Kaitlan Leaney and Brianna Hoy playing in front of a vocal…
SIMONE Jordan from Nambucca Strikers Football Club was announced as a finalist for Volunteer of the Year for Female Football Week by Northern NSW Football. Nominations for the award poured in from Tweed Heads in the north down to…
GOLF is in full swing at Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club as Pennants returned following last year’s COVID-19 hiatus. General Manager, Jonathan Zirkler provided News Of The Area with a summary of what’s been happening at the picturesque Golf…
HIGH School Squash teams flocked to Coffs Harbour last week to play in the New South Wales Combined High Schools competition. Sam Moriz from Coffs Harbour and sisters Elle and Bray Thornhill from Dorrigo were selected for the NSW…
THE gentle clicks of mallet on ball and ball on ball drifted across the Sawtell caravan park earlier this week as the Sawtell Croquet Club hosted the NSW State Ricochet Croquet tournament. The five-day event attracted competitors from the…
SAWTELL FC were announced club of the year for Female Football Week at the Northern NSW Football awards night last Saturday at Lake Macquarie. The largest club on the North Coast put on a series of female focused events…