Experienced campaigners Gina Crampton and Te Huinga Reo Selby-Rickit will join forces to lead the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel in 2019.

Women in Sport Murihiku board member Donna Milne has played a major role in the resurgence of Southland volleyball.

It has been, by just about any measure, a massive year for Southland sport.

Sport has helped Sport Southland community sport manager Luciana Garcia travel the world and find a career, but it has also done much more than that.

I spent many years going back and forth between hospitals and boxing rings, getting frustrated. If I wasn’t an athlete, I’m not so sure if I would have embraced and been committed to recovery. Sport saved me.

The Southland Hawke Cup cricket team makes a start to its summer, Southland head to Timaru looking to qualify men’s and women’s team for the national finals and video from today’s Kepler Challenge.

Kepler Challenge debutantes Nancy Jiang and Daniel Jones have taken out the 60km mountain run in Te Anau today, while a race record which had lasted for a decade was smashed in the Luxmore Grunt.

Southland Stags player of the year James Wilson has returned to the Bath club in the English premiership.

Southland is lucky to have many inspirational and influential women involved in sport. Meet Debbie Hodges.

An Invercargill woman with an impressive business/corporate background has been appointed as Cycling Southland general manager.

Conventional wisdom suggests that cricket should be dying. Too long, too boring, too weather dependent, too traditional. But cricket isn’t dying; you could even say it is thriving, and Southland is leading the way.

Without either of its defending champions returning in 2018, this year’s Kepler Challenge has been thrown wide open.

Think running the 60km Kepler Challenge mountain race through some of Fiordland’s most beautiful and demanding scenery is hard - how about doing it in full firefighting gear?

Invercargill’s Ella Smith is one of the most exciting badminton talents in New Zealand.

Sport. It’s been such a major factor in my life for as long as I can remember. Whether directly or indirectly, it’s influenced pretty much everything I’ve done and will continue to do.

A powerful new network, Women in Sport Murihiku, has been created to ensure that women and girls remain valued, visible and influential in Southland sport.

At a personal level, it’s hard to imagine Aliyah Dunn having a better year than the one she’s had in 2018.