11:45am Fri 01 Sep, 2023
Mount Maunganui Intermediate's Rip Rugby team will leave no player behind for this year's Zespri Aims Games. Kicking off this Saturday, September 2, nearly... Read More
01:00pm Thu 31 Aug, 2023
The countdown is on to the 2023 Zespri AIMS Games, which kicks off this weekend. The week long event is one of Australasia's largest junior sporting events,... Read More
03:00pm Fri 09 Sep, 2022
Teams of athletes gathered at Mount Maunganui this week to take part in the inaugural Zespri AIMS Games Gives Back, a beach clean-up led by Tauranga City Council... Read More
07:30am Thu 08 Sep, 2022
The Zespri AIMS Games are in full swing in Tauranga this week. More than 25,000 athletes, officials and supporters are taking part in 23 sports codes around the... Read More
07:30am Wed 07 Sep, 2022
Athletes from an Auckland school have been toastier than most at Zespri AIMS Games this week. Bucklands Beach Intermediate competitors are wrapped in golden scarves,... Read More
06:45am Wed 07 Sep, 2022
Liam Howes has found some fine weather - 'finally”. The 12-year-old from Waimea Intermediate School in Richmond has had a wet - and bumpy - road to the... Read More
07:00am Tue 06 Sep, 2022
Classrooms are especially quiet at a small rural Bay of Plenty school this week, thanks to the Zespri AIMS Games. More than half of Otakiri School's eligible... Read More
08:00am Tue 26 Jul, 2022
Henk Popping, co-creator of the Zespri AIMS Games and principal of Otumoetai Intermediate, was supposed to be sitting in a conference at Wairakei. Instead, he... Read More
10:10am Fri 17 Jun, 2022
The Zespri AIMS Games is set to make a triumphant return to Tauranga after two years of pandemic-related heartbreak. Registrations have now closed for the 2022... Read More
11:24am Mon 05 Jul, 2021
While their world championship-winning Black Caps heroes cool their heels in quarantine, a group of young Tauranga cricketers face a longer but equally exciting... Read More
06:50am Mon 01 Jun, 2020
Two months with no sport has been tough for many, which is why Fun First Football owner Colm Kenny wanted to get kids back on the field as quickly as possible. 'During... Read More
07:40am Mon 30 Dec, 2019
This year's AIMS Games event injected nearly $6.5million into the Bay of Plenty's economy, a new report reveals. It's a 108 per cent increase from the last economic... Read More