Making a splash on home turf

There’s no place like home say swimming jetsetters and Miami Masters teammates Denise Robertson, 77, and Margaret Fittock, 71. Both were looking to make a splash on the first day of the 2012 Pan Pacific Masters Games (3-11November) swimming competition …


Campbell and Shaw are brothers in arms at rugby league

It’s brothers by name and brothers by nature on the field at the Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) rugby league competition this week at Runaway Bay. Former Gold Coast Titan Preston Campbell and 1987 Manly Warringah grand …


Paralympian shows blinding speed at indoor rowing

Blind athlete Lindy Hou was ‘oar-inspiring’ at the Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) indoor rowing competition at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre this week claiming three gold medals. The 52-year-old from Canberra, who suffers from …


Calisthenics dances its way into the Pan Pacs

The word calisthenics is a Greek word that translates to beauty and strength. And that is something the women at the first-ever calisthenics competition at a Pan Pacific Masters Games demonstrated on Thursday at the Gold Coast Arts Centre. Adelaide’s …


Filthy Fifths in High Spirit

Brisbane-based cricket team, The Filthy Fifths, don’t have a 2012 Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) victory under their belts yet, but they are a colourful team of characters. Their captain, Antone Sanders or ‘The Colonel’, was labeled …


16,000 kilometres for a piece of gold

Before Mike Forder sat on his ergo at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre today in the indoor rowing competition he had already won the title for being the participant who had travelled the furthest distance to take part …


Cricket Connoisseurs at the Pan Pacific Masters Games

It’s said that behind every great man there’s a great woman and Amanda Russell is the prized possession of the Border Bushrangers Cricket team at the Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November). The team from Warwick is made …


Forces clash on the hockey field

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 …


Former softballers bowled over by name change

Geelong’s Soft Bowlers have been renamed The Virgins by their fellow competitors at the Pan Pacific Masters Games lawn bowls competition at the Southport Bowls Club. Former Masters softball teammates Jan Crotty, Wendy Gray, Sheryl Gray (no relation) and Kaye …


Big Feat full of the Wright stuff

“Sometimes you play with your brain, sometimes you play with your body. Sometimes you play with both.” That was how former NBL coach Joey Wright breathlessly explained the sport of basketball after starring for his 40-45 division team Big Feat …