Seymour Sport

AFL exports | Cole sinks another, Mundy among best

Tom Cole sure does love kicking a goal - the defender just kicked his third AFL major in as many games. In West Coast’s 15-point win over St Kilda on Thursday night, Cole went forward to sink the final goal of the game and put the cherry on top of...

Meg Saultry

Sporting clubs urged to apply for government grants

Sporting clubs across the Goulburn Valley and beyond are being urged to apply for government funding. State Member for Northern Victoria Mark Gepp is encouraging grassroots clubs needing a boost to their equipment, skills and administration...

Seymour Telegraph

Carly’s leaving no coaching Stones unturned

When Carly Stones got the call for a key development coaching role at next year’s Australian junior basketball championships, she screamed. With Victoria Country Women’s High Performance Coach Zoe Carr on the other end of the call, Stones...

Meg Saultry

Carly’s leaving no coaching Stones unturned

When Carly Stones got the call for a key development coaching role at next year’s Australian junior basketball championships, she screamed. With Victoria Country Women’s High Performance Coach Zoe Carr on the other end of the call, Stones...

Meg Saultry

McDonald makes mark in Melbourne Vixens win

Seymour’s Elle McDonald took to the court for her second Super Netball appearance on Saturday as the Melbourne Vixens locked up the minor premiership with a win over Collingwood. Facing their cross-town rivals in the Magpies, the Vixens were...

Meg Saultry

Racing Victoria calls on whip reform

RV has proposed the maximum amount of whip strokes in a race be limited to no more than five to eight times from January 1 next year

Aydin Payne

Vale David Fox

Country footy has lost one of its great champions — and will be the poorer for it. David Fox’s impact on the country football community, in particular the Goulburn Valley League, wasn’t one of just statistics, numbers or data.

Tyler Maher

AFL exports | Cole kicks truly, maniac Mundy

The AFL’s football frenzy has seen another two rounds come and go in a flash, with Seymour products David Mundy and Tom Cole finishing the spell having levelled up the win-loss ledger.

Meg Saultry

First career goal for Cole the cherry on top

Tom Cole never expects to be the one kicking for goal. So it was a welcome surprise when, after 52 AFL appearances across five seasons, the West Coast defender was finally thrust forward to sink his first major in the big league.

Meg Saultry

Goodwin gallops home with Mister Hay Zee at Wangaratta races

THE $22,000 Sportsbet Handicap over 1100 m ended up more like dodgem cars as horses ricocheted off each other, the winner almost barged a path into the clear and the jockey on the beaten favourite was suspended.

Andrew Mole

Basketball Victoria signals potential junior CBL season

Basketball for country juniors is set to look a little different with a new junior basketball competition in the works at Basketball Victoria.

Aydin Payne

Cricket protocols set to change this summer

Match-day protocols at all levels of cricket will change significantly for the 2020-21 season in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Andrew Johnston

AFS Shepparton Cup cancelled for this year

One of the largest tournaments in the region has joined the list of cancelled events this year.

Seymour Telegraph

AFL exports | Vintage Mundy better than ever in Freo win

Seymour’s David Mundy had one of his best games of the year on Saturday, finishing second in the Goodes-O’Loughlin Medal count following Fremantle’s dominant 31-point victory against Sydney. Teammate Luke Ryan took out the best-on-ground honour for...

Meg Saultry

Australia’s favourite horse was always a hit in the region

In 2012, Subzero — Australia’s favourite horse — dropped in on St Mary’s College. He was back in the region in 2013 to visit St Joseph’s and Nagambie Primary School.

Seymour Telegraph

Benalla races a family affair for Brown

When Seymour-based trainer Stephen Brown lost rider Mitchell Aitken for his five-year-old mare Judge Jeanine at Benalla on Tuesday, September 1, he got on the family tom-toms. In the end it was nephew Ethan Brown who answered the SOS.

Andrew Mole

Maddie Garrick releases online coaching program

If you have a heartbeat, you have an athlete — it is a mantra put forward by Shepparton basketball product Maddie Garrick through her newly launched coaching program. The self-titled online mentorship program is somewhat of a passion project...

Liam Nash

Raft of new changes for NAB League and VFL

A major shift in AFL talent programs will leave the NAB League and VFL looking different next year. The AFL recently announced it would make a raft of new changes to the junior talent development leagues and its second-tier competitions, the VFL and...

Aydin Payne

One month left to apply for sporting grants

Is your sporting club looking for a leg-up? Whether it be a spare pair of pads for the kit bag, sparkling new jerseys for the under-8s or investing in a website, applying for the latest round of the Victorian Government’s 2020-21 Sporting Club...

Seymour Telegraph