Townsville Sport

🏃‍♂️💨 Our sports journo Pat Woods tried to outrun Queensland's fastest 15-year-old, Uwezo Lubenda... even with a head start, Pat was left in the dust! But Uwezo's story goes beyond speed. 💪🌍 Fleeing the Congo war, his family sought refuge, and now he’s sprinting towards a new dream—representing Australia at the Olympics. 🥇 Read his inspirational life story here. 👉 https://bit.ly/48rnJ4d

Two don't argue fends have helped Kirwan State High School leader Davidson Benioni barnstorm onto the list of top 10 NRL Schoolboys Cup tries of the season 🌟 Get an exclusive look 👀 at the full top 10 now: https://bit.ly/4eKbh1O

Vision of Saturday's Queensland Cup game from QPlus TV shows Townsville Blackhawks backrower Patrick Kaufusi fall to the ground after appearing to be struck in the neck 🏉😓 Watch the video and keep up with the latest on his sickening injury here 🔗 https://bit.ly/3LnnXi0

Club rugby round 5: Who made the Hospital Cup, Premier Women and Colts 1 Teams of the Week? It includes an inspiring Wests captain, a five try hero from Brothers, exciting Norths youngsters and Townsville boy making waves for Sunnybank🏉🔥 https://bit.ly/4drua9c

Richest cash prize in NQ sports history going up for grabs

💸 The richest cash prize for a sports carnival in North Queensland history is going up for grabs - and organisers have thrown down the gauntlet to all footy codes to come win their jackpot 📍 How to win 👇 https://bit.ly/43PpCoI

Amid raging bushfires, a cowboy’s fearless quest at the Pro Bull Riding Grand Finals has inspired a community 🤠 Read how close he came to the flames and why he still chose to compete 📍 https://bit.ly/3MrcVZS

Townsville Cricket's aspirational goals for inclusive all abilities program. For years cricket has been a favourite pastime for many Australians and now Queensland Cricket hopes to make it more accessible to all through their all abilities cricket program. Queensland Cricket’s cricket manager north Antony Stewart hoped that a regular competition could be set up with enough buy-in from local organisations. “Queensland Cricket has been working in the disability sphere for a few years, mainly at schools like Townsville Community Learning Centre, and it’s been so well received,” Stewart said. “We hadn’t done a lot with young adults, 14 through to 25, and we thought there was a real opportunity there to not just give them an experience playing cricket or learning cricket skills, but maybe setting up a cricket competition and making it club-aligned here in Townsville. “From the experience we’ve had at places like Bentley Farm, there really is a desire for it so we want to make that dream come true.” Stewart said that if the program had enough interest there was potential to take all abilities teams to represent Townsville in places like Mackay and Cairns – or even Brisbane – with no out of pocket expenses to the players. All abilities bowling maestro Kris Harber said he wanted to see more players give cricket a go. “It was really good making new friends and learning some new skills,” Harber said. Bentley Farm support worker Jorja Ede said you players instantly took to the sport after learning the basic skills last year. “They love it, they look forward to it so much, every week they’ve been asking when we’re going to do cricket again,” Ede said. “We’re really trying to get the word out there because we would love everyone in Townsville to come forward and join us for Monday cricket and then hopefully we can make an all abilities cricket club.”

A Townsville Warriors Football Club teenager has bypassed the A-League entirely to sign his first pro contract with one of Italy's oldest pro clubs📍 Watch Riley go head-to-head with sports editor Nic Darveniza in a penalty shootout below and read his story here: https://bit.ly/408yXWW

Join Bulletin reporter Patrick Woods behind the wheel as he pushes his limits in a real V8 supercar at a recent day on the track with Race X 🏁 Find out more about the experience here 🏎 https://bit.ly/3Mdf1we

WATCH: Australia’s latest taekwondo Master Andrea Smith teaches Bulletin sport reporter Pat Woods how not 🙈 to fight a martial arts expert Read her journey to becoming the third Aussie female ever to reach Master status 📍 https://bit.ly/3ERXRjU

Roaring with pride, elders and children rushed on the field to celebrate with the Bagaarrmugu side as they claimed victory at the Tribal Nines rugby carnival on Palm Island. 🏉 It comes as two local young guns recently made it to the NRL big time. 👉 https://bit.ly/3PPkCvA

Alison Fairleigh thought she was being interviewed for her nomination for a major national award... only to discover she had actually won it ✨🏆🎇 Watch the full video ▶ https://bit.ly/3Bny8Oy