Mani wins ‘Most Valuable Player’ award By CARLOS ARUAFU The national U17 men’s football team captain Charles Mani has been awarded the ‘Most Valuable Player’ award at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Rex Dawkins tournament, Tuesday in Auckland, New Zealand. Young Mani is very excited to win the award as this is his first award…
YUN’S Taekwondo athletes learned a lot from the World Martial Arts Champions Master John Gill from Australia who ran a series of advance self defense seminar for them for the last few days. Master Gill, a 19 times World Champions of Self Defense conducted the program for them since last week and is anticipated to…
The country’s national men’s futsal team Solomon Kurukuru is appealing to all its supporters and fans to pledge and support them in their preparations towards the OFC world cup qualifiers next month. According to a statement posted on Team Kurukuru’s Facebook page, the team is undergoing a very tough preparation in terms of strength and…
Mr. Solomon Islands’ Physique model Moffat Mona is ready to defend his title in the upcoming body building championship scheduled for next month. Mona said with the help of his new private sponsors he is confident to defend his title. “With the help of my new sponsors my preparations is getting better with the…
THE coach for the Australian Westfield Junior Matildas Rae Dowaer has thanked the supporters who came out yesterday to support the two teams in Thursday’s international friendly match at the Lawson Tama Stadium. “It was really cute to hear and see supporters cheering Go Aussie Go and waving the Australian and Solomon Islands Flag,” she…
COACH BATRAM SAYS FINAL SELECTION TOUGH By CROFTON UTUKANA The National U-23 men’s football team head coach Batram Suri has named the final 23 man squad that will represent the country in the OFC men’s Olympic Qualifiers known as 2019 OFC U-23 Championship. Suri told Star Sports in an interview yesterday that it was not…
THEY improved on their last result, but the Solomon Islands netball team have been beaten heavily again. Papua New Guinea (PNG) are considered medal contenders by many especially as Fiji and Samoa have their strongest players away at the Netball World Cup in Liverpool, England. PNG showed themselves to be a class above their opponents…
A TOTAL of seven matches for the men’s and women’s volleyball teams have produced no victories for Solomon Islands, the latest being two defeats on Tuesday. The tournament is being held in the gymnasium of Samoa’s National University, and the men were up first on court one. They faced The Federated States of Micronesia and…
JEMIMAH Otoa made history on Tuesday with a bronze medal in the women’s para javelin. The event was the first of its kind at a Pacific Games tournament. Para sports are judged differently to standard events, because participating athletes have varying disabilities which affect how well they are able to compete. In this event, each…
Solomon Islands Taekwondo debuted fighter Junior Fred Gwali won a silver medal at the Pacific Games in Samoa, Tuesday. He settled for silver after going down to Takelo Moala Apololatu of Tonga in the grand final of the 87kg category. Gwali lost 11-16 in the grand final to settle for the silver medal in his…