It’s got a new name and a new generation of youngsters about to hit the big stage for the first time. The Super Rugby 16s series also has a sensational trio of league players in the NSW Waratahs.
They are the giants of Australian rugby ready to represent the Wallabies on the game’s grandest stage, but to the local clubs and schools that nurtured them, they are so much more.
Last year two young guns emerged from the wings at Sydney v Country to make his squad. Now Waratahs coach Campbell Aitken is looking for more new blood at Maitland on Sunday.
There were damaging forwards, blistering backs and even some surprise packets. Find out who laid claims to an Origin jumper or NRLW contract at the Women’s National Championships.
There’s plenty of sons of guns in surf lifesaving but never before have there been three brothers in the professional ironman series. That could be about to change.
This schoolboy runner dreams of competing against the best and fastest in the world for Australia one day. But if he can pull off the race of his life, he might do it just a little bit sooner.
A former beach sprinter, Olympians and a marathon mum will race for Australia at the world cross country championships with a team of “great mates” chasing medal success.
She knows she’s years younger than her rivals but this 14-year old is dreaming big of a golden ticket into the world athletics cross country championship main event in Bathurst this month.
She had her heart set on competing at one of the biggest sporting events in the world. When it didn’t happen it knocked her for six. How this athlete battled back to win double gold
For the first taste of a sport it was pretty awful. A loss in every single game he played at a local tournament. But that didn’t deter this late bloomer pursuing his rugby dream.
A former Australian athletics champion and the sister of a rising star of NRL are among the stars of the AON Next Gen Rugby Sevens series. Standouts and Rd 1 result wrap.
Updated: There are teens, a former footy star, an outback gun, a bio mechanical engineer and debutants galore. The Aussie water polo players starring against USA and Japan.
This young Nutri-Grain ironman has described a shocking injury sidelining him for the entire surf season as “bizarre and gross’’ but has vowed he will be back to race again.
Andoo Comanche skipper John ‘Herman’ Winning and his team will be back to defend their Sydney to Hobart win next year but in-between they have an incredible mission for the boat.
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