The Nightsticks Hockey Club tackle a whole lot more than emergencies on the hockey field when the team of first responders from around Australia come together for mateship and sport at the Pan Pacific Masters Games (PPMG).
Papua New Guinea-born Brisbane resident Dawn English (46) was brought to tears when she learned the Gold Coast Hockey Association was arranging donations of playing equipment to PNG children.
ONE of the marvellous aspects of this years’ Pan Pacific Masters Games is the effort teams and players are putting in to show their true colours.
With a hard and fast ball whizzing around the field, ferocious women running you down and only a wooden stick to defend yourself, women’s hockey at the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games can only be described with one word; fierce.
The Gold Coast Bitzers flaunted their signature pink and black hats on the first day of hockey at the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games. The Bitzers are a collaboration of women from various Gold Coast hockey clubs who wear the hats to signify the new team bond.
The ladies from the Golden Eagles may be from Papua New Guinea (PNG) but they are not strangers to the Gold Coast or the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games. The team compete together in a local hockey competition in PNG and have made several trips to Australia for various masters competitions since 2006.
Rock solid defence was everywhere at the Labrador hockey fields when police officers and players from the Australian Defence Force met at the Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) on Wednesday. Denis Paice, 45, was preparing for the …
More than 200 competitors at this year’s Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) on the Gold Coast will come from Papua New Guinea including the Golden Eagles who are looking to soar to a gold medal in women’s …
