Durban and Pietermaritzburg SPAR Women’s 10km/5km Challenge Cancelled The much-loved Durban and Pietermaritzburg SPAR Women’s 10km/5km Challenges for 2020 have been cancelled. We are all currently facing unprecedented and challenging times, in South Africa as well as in the rest of the world. The Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of abating and as it is [...]
Seven mates relay run “the Comrades” to raise funds for Covid-19 relief Inspired by the impact that global connectedness and action has made towards overcoming the challenges of “Covid19-Lockdown” seven friends, spread across seven towns on three continents, decided to have some fun together and ran a lockdown “Comrades” relay as a fundraiser for KZN [...]
SPAR KZN Raiders 2020 IPT Danville Park Girls’ High School: 11 – 14 March The SPAR KZN Raiders completed their first challenge in the Indoor Hockey Inter-Provincial Tournament that is currently underway at the Indoor Centre at Danville Park Girls’ High School. After their three pool games, the local team topped the log after a [...]
SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge Durban North Regional Ashton International College: Sunday 8 March Reclaiming the title, Our Lady of Fatima were victorious for the fourth time in the Durban North Regional of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge at Ashton International College on Sunday 8 March. In a scorcher of a game, Fatima met [...]
SPAR KZN Raiders 2020 Indoor IPT Danville Park Girls’ High School Indoor Centre: 11 – 14 March Top indoor teams from around the country will be descending to the Danville Park Girls’ High School’s Indoor Centre this week for the 2020 Indoor Hockey Inter-Provincial Tournament. The tournament tips off on Wednesday and concludes this Saturday. [...]
SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge Durban Central Regional Durban Girls’ College: Saturday 7 March Maintaining their 100% record, Durban Girls College was crowned the Durban Central Regional winners of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge for the tenth time on Saturday 7 March. College is the only team in the tournament to have a 100% [...]
SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge Northern KZN Regional Pionier High School: Saturday 29 February Northern KZN Regional has a new winner, that of host school Hoërskool Pionier which took the title in a scintillating final of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge on Saturday 29 February. Hoërskool Pionier had a cracker of a day, starting [...]
SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge Northern KZN Regional Pionier High School: Saturday 29 February Getting a jump on the hockey year, the tenth SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge gets underway with the first of its ten regionals taking place at Hoërskool Pionier on Saturday 29 February. The Northern KZN Regional hosts eight first teams from [...]
SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge Leaping into its tenth year, and notching up a momentous milestone, the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge’s first tournament of the year significantly tips off its 100th overall tournament. The first date in this jam-packed, action-filled hockey calendar that travels to ten regions in KwaZulu Natal takes place on the [...]
SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Fast 5’s Netball Midlands Tournament Voortrekker High School: Saturday 5 October Wrapping up the inaugural SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Fast 5’s Netball tournament, St Anne’s College claimed the Midlands title at Voortrekker High School on Saturday 5 October. In a low scoring, high action final, St Anne’s met The Wykeham Collegiate. Wykeham got [...]
SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Fast 5s Netball North Coast Regional Empangeni High School: Saturday 31 August After a vibrant day of netball, the Nseleni’s compact team from Tholokuhle High School took the top honours in the first North Coast Regional of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Fast 5s Netball hosted by Empangeni High School. The excitement rippled [...]
SPAR KZN Women's 10/5km Pietermaritzburg: Sunday 18 August Claiming the title of the Maritzburg SPAR Women’s 10/5km, this year’s queen of the SPAR Grand Prix, Helalia Johannes (Nedbank) took the top honours in a course record breaking time of 32.23. In a full field of 4,500 runners - this is the fifth time this year [...]
The first thing that strikes one when meeting livewire Pietermaritzburg athlete Nontuthuko Mashimane, is that this is one dynamo lady, who loves people and running with people. The Maritzburg born and bred, “Nontu” who will be on the starting line of the SPAR Women’s 10km/5km Challenge in the Capital come Sunday 18 August, is passionate [...]
SPAR KZN Schoolgirl’s Fast 5s Netball Kuswag High School: Saturday 3 August The very first name to be engraved on the trophy at the inaugural SPAR KZN Schoolgirl’s Fast 5s Netball Tournament on Saturday 3 August at Kuswag High School is Hillcrest High School. The first SPAR Fast 5s tournament, hosted by Amanzimtoti High School [...]
St Anne’s College In their eighth appearance at the Grand Finals of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge, St Anne’s College eared themselves a successful second place. In a repeat of last year, St Anne’s earned themselves silver against St Mary’s DSG in a highly competitive end to the Grand Finals. In their second consecutive [...]
Durban Girls’ College In their ninth appearance at the Grand Finals of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge, Durban Girls’ College finished third overall. In their pool, College came up against St Anne’s College (PMB North Regional Winners), Crawford La Lucia (DBN North Regional Winners), Amanzimtoti High School (DBN South Regional Winners) and Richards Bay’s [...]
Epworth School In their second Grand Finals appearance at the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge, Epworth School finished fourth overall. Representing the PMB Central Region, the team were drawn in Pool A where they took on St Mary’s DSG (Highway Regional Winners), Kokstad High School (Southern KZN Regional Winners), Ferrum High School (Northern KZN Regional [...]
Crawford La Lucia In their first appearance, Crawford La Lucia representing the Durban North Region at the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge finished a fantastic fifth overall. The newcomers were drawn in Pool B where they took on top teams Durban Girls’ College (DBN Central Regional Winners) and St Anne’s College (PMB North Regional Winners) [...]
Kokstad College In their third appearance at the Grand Finals of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge, Kokstad College notched up their best result yet – sixth place overall. Representing the Southern KZN Region, Kokstad came up against defending champs, St Mary’s DSG (Highway Regional Winners), Epworth School (PMB Central Regional Winners) and travelling teams [...]
Felixton College In their second appearance, Felixton College improved considerably on their first results at the Grand Finals of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge. Felixton met top teams Durban Girls’ College (DBN Central Regional Winners) and St Anne’s College (PMB North Regional Winners), together with Crawford La Lucia (DBN North Regional Winners) and Amanzimtoti [...]
Ferrum High School In their eighth appearance Ferrrum High School finished eighth overall at the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge. In their pool they met defending champions, St Mary’s DSG (Highway Regional Winners), Epworth School (PMB Central Regional Winners), and teams that also travelled to the tournament – Wartburg Kirchdorf School (Umvoti, uThukela and Umzinyathi [...]
Wartburg Kirchdorf School In their sixth appearance at the Grand Finals of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge, Wartburg Kirchdorf School ended ninth overall in the KZN tournament. After missing last year, the Umvoti, uThukela and Umzinyathi Regional Winners came up against some serious opposition in their pool games on the first day. They were [...]
Amanzimtoti High School In their fifth appearance, Amanzimtoti High School finished tenth overall at the 99th overall tournament of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge. Representing the Durban South Region, Toti met hockey giants Durban Girls’ College (Durban Central Regional Winners), St Anne’s College (PMB North Regional Winners), along with Crawford La Lucia (DBN North [...]
KwaZulu-Natal Building on the highly successful hockey tournaments, SPAR KZN are proud to announce, in association with SchoolgirlSport (SGS), the exciting and brand new SPAR Schoolgirls’ Fast 5’s Netball Tournament that tips off this August. The hockey tournament that got rolling in KZN nine years ago is now a popular highlight on the national schools [...]
Sunday 18 August 2019 Entries are now open for the Maritzburg SPAR Women’s Challenge 10km/5km, the City’s “most beautiful road race”, which takes place in and around Alexandra Park in the Capital, on Sunday 18 August. The popular running event is the fifth in the national Grand Prix series, which attracts both elite athletes as [...]