Ōtaki Sports Club is a non mandated vaccine club and as such is restricted, under the current red traffic light setting, to 25 people on site per sport. Junior interclub teams often play with a larger number of spectators than other teams due to parents accompanying their children. This can regularly push numbers over 25, […]
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Our upcoming lighting project got some good media coverage recently in Ōtaki Today and Kāpiti News . And thanks again to NZ Community Trust for the grant. This project would not have been possible without them. Click images to see full-sized articles.
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ŌSC gets 3 stories and a full page spread in the latest Ōtaki Today!! We have so many awesome stories of the people in our club to share with the community! These three are a good start. If you can’t view the image below easily, you can check out the ŌSC stories on page 27
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Mana wāhine! Kāpiti News today ran a great piece about the growth of women’s sport at our club. Here’s the article …
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The past year has seen good growth in senior player numbers across all our sports — squash, tennis and football. It’s a very encouraging sign for the club. Last year, in the seniors, we had: one squash team, this year three; one tennis team, this year two; one football team, this year two. It’s also
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Big congrats to our senior C-grade tennis team who won their grade yesterday with a round still to go in the competition! Last season the team won the D grade and were promoted to C grade. Now they are in line for promotion to B Grade. Go Ōtaki Sports Club! From left: Nopera Stewart, Heitia
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Congrats to club member Fiona Wilson (pictured below right) who won a bronze award in women’s doubles (with Deb Kerr from Masterton Tennis Club) at the Masters Games held in Whanganui last week. Fiona is a big supporter of tournaments and events as a way to improve tennis ability. In December, she played in the
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Congrats to our junior A-grade interclub tennis team — the Racqueteers — for their 2nd place finish in the pre-Christmas season and well done, too, to our two C-grade teams for their competitive play in their grade. The Racqueteers finished off the season with a good 4-2 win over Whitby on the weekend to cement
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A historic season for tennis at Ōtaki Sports Club this year. For the first time in many years we had two senior interclub teams, and both won their grades. Our A grade team won their grade with a week still to play, and ended the season undefeated, and the D grade team also comfortably won
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The Maori tennis champs are in Whanganui at the end of this month and some of our members are competing. Info about the event is here. http://amta.co.nz/wordpress/tournament/ If you would like to enter, and be part of the Ōtaki Sports Club posse going up, get in touch with Fiona Wilson: fiona@orangaputea.com
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