Will Robinson at the Colgate South Island Games
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Athletes do Beauy proud

TWO talented Beaudesert athletes got a taste of international competition and achieved personal bests in New Zealand this month. AJ Platell and Will Robinson were among 30 athletes from across Queensland selected to take part in the New Zealand Development Tour, including the South Island Colgate Games. Little Athletics Queensland […]

Vigoro States 5
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Keeping Vigoro alive

IT’S NOT unfair to say that of all women’s sports played in Queensland Vigoro may be one of those with the fewest participants. Just three associations exist Cairns, Fassifern, and Ipswich,  For a number of years now, a group of Beaudesert girls have been keeping the game alive by travelling […]

Stephen Tanner
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Stephen runs for sister

THE mental health challenges faced by many cancer survivors is not talked about much, but local runner Stephen Tanner feels so strongly about it, he took it to the mountaintops. The Beaudesert veterinarian took on Tasmania’s Point to Pinnacle half marathon in support of his sister Christine, who was diagnosed […]

Alli Reinke
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Alli sets her sights on ‘32 Olympics.

FOR most 13-year-olds dedicating themselves to a future project is no great concern, that is of course if it’s in the foreseeable future and will involve minimal work. When the journey will involve training every week for eight years no matter the weather few young teens will bother to take […]

Young local junior Levi Bannan is headed towards an NRL career with Manly.
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Levi signs with Manly

KINGFISHER junior rugby league player, Levi Bannan, has been earmarked by Manly as a potential NRL player of the future. The talented half-back came under their notice last year playing in the Under 16 Cyril Connell Cup for Souths Logan Magpies. The team lost just one match in the competition […]

WINNERS: The Kingfishers celebrate their championship win in 2022.
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Champs aim to go back-to-back

WHEN co-coaches Keith Gee and Rob Brown took on the Kingfishers Women’s league team in 2022 they bravely aimed to win a premiership within three years. They achieved their goal 12 months early as the women stormed home last season to not only take the Southern Division, but also the […]

Dylan Biggs and daughter Zylah
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Road to recovery

BEAUDESERT boxer Dylan Biggs is humbly chipping away at his return to the sport after being sidelined for six weeks with a hand injury. He broke the second and third metacarpal in his left hand in a training injury five weeks before he lost his Super Welterweight title to Nikita […]

Deb Love with Jon Krause
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Court revamp gets Beaudesert on the ball

Beaudesert and District Netball Association President Deb Love has welcomed $95,782 in funding from the Gambling Community Benefit fund. The grant will allow the Club to put grass courts on three bitumen courts that have been unusable for approximately ten years due to the deterioration of the current surface.  “To […]

Beaudesert Kingfishers is one of the local sporting club that accepts the Fair Play vouchers
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FairPlay vouchers getting kids into sport

FairPlay vouchers are all about getting kids into sport and the next round of this funding opens on 24 January 2024 at 9am. While most sporting organisations try to keep their fees affordable for families, the Fair Play vouchers, valued at $150 each, make a big difference, especially at the […]

Juniors and Coach Tim Fitzgerald
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Tennis Club completes season with Awards Night

Photo gallery below. Hayden Griffin was awarded the Kent Taylor Memorial Trophy for Junior Player of the Year at Beaudesert & District Tennis Association’s presentation night. Hayden, who has been playing tennis at Beaudesert since he was in Prep, has been playing up in age against the adults for some […]