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Rosedale Park, North Shore
Rosedale Park, is a reserve and sports ground in the suburb of Rosedale in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the home ground of NRFL Northern Conference side Albany United, North Harbour Softball and North Harbour Hockey. Rosedale park also has a playground, fitness equipment, picnic tables, and a 9-hole frisbee golf course. History As of 2022, Urban Solutions have started planning new pedestrian and cycling paths to encourage locals to walk while creating a safe environment for them to do so. A five year project run by Te Hōnonga a Iwi is currently underway to restore 4000 square metres of Rosedale Park using bio-organic principles. Hockey In 1975, six hockey fields were built for the North Shore Women's Hockey Association. In 1988 an artificial sand turf was built at Rosedale Park North. North Shore City Council built a new hockey complex at Rosedale Park South from 1996-97. Two new water turfs were also constructed. This saw the North Harbour hockey clubs make the move to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Park
An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a municipal park (North America) or a public park, public open space, or municipal gardens ( UK), is a park in cities A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ... and other Municipal corporation, incorporated places that offer recreation and Open space reserve, green space to residents of, and visitors to, the municipality. The design, operation, and maintenance, repair and operations, maintenance is usually done by government agencies, typically on the Local government, local level, but may occasionally be contracted out to a park conservancy, "friends of" group, or private sector company. Common features of municipal parks include playgrounds, gardens, hiking, running and fitness trails or paths, bridle paths, sports field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Softball New Zealand
Softball New Zealand, formerly known as the New Zealand Softball Association, is the governing body for the sport of softball in New Zealand. Softball New Zealand consists of a number of regional associations and local clubs. History On 11 January 1938, it was founded as New Zealand Softball Association. New Zealand's first national men’s inter-provincial tournament took place on 25 March 1939 at the Winter Show Grounds in Wellington. New Zealand first competed on the international stage when Australia women's teams toured New Zealand in 1949. The International Softball Federation (ISF) (now World Baseball Softball Confederation) hosted the first women's world championships in Melbourne, Australia in 1965. New Zealand finished fourth in a field of 5. The women's team won their first world title in 1982. The first men's world championships took place in 1966 in Mexico City, Mexico where New Zealand finished third. The men have gone on to become the most successful team winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Venues In Auckland
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Association Football Venues In New Zealand
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World Baseball Softball Confederation
World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC; french: Confédération internationale de baseball et softball) is the Sports governing body, world governing body for the sports of baseball, softball, and Baseball5. It was established in 2013 by the merger of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and International Softball Federation (ISF), the former world governing bodies for baseball and softball, respectively. Under WBSC's organizational structure, IBAF and ISF now serve as the Baseball Division and Softball Division of WBSC. Each division is governed by an executive committee, while the WBSC is governed by an executive board. Headquartered in Pully, Pully, Switzerland, the WBSC was granted recognition as the sole competent global authority for both the sports of baseball and softball by the International Olympic Committee at the 125th IOC Session on 8 September 2013. The WBSC has 208 National Federation Members in 141 countries and territories across Asia, Africa, Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Men's Softball World Championship
The 2022 WBSC Men's Softball World Championship was the 17th Men's Softball World Championship, an international softball tournament taking place in Auckland, New Zealand from 26 November to 4 December 2022. Originally scheduled for February 2021, the tournament was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New Zealand last hosted the tournament in 2013. It will be the 17th edition of the tournament. Argentina were the defending champions, and lost the third place playoff to the United States. Australia defeated Canada 5–2 in the final to claim their second World Cup. Qualified teams Squads Officials 15 umpires were selected by the WBSC for the tournament. Venue Rosedale Park in Rosedale, Auckland hosted all the games across two fields. Opening Round Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- Placement Round The bottom three teams from each group progress to the placement roun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Men's Softball World Championship
The 2013 ISF Men's World Championship, also known as the 2013 ISF Tradestaff Men's World Championship for sponsorship reasons, was an international softball tournament. The tournament was held at Rosedale Park in Auckland, New Zealand from 1–10 March 2013. It was the 13th time the World Championship took place. Sixteen nations competed, including defending champions Australia. In the end, New Zealand won over Venezuela. Defending champions, Australia finished third. Final standings External linksOfficial website (Archived) References {{Men's Softball World ChampionshipISF Men's World Championship
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Men's Softball World Championship
The Men's Softball World Cup, known through 2015 as the ISF Men's World Championship, is a softball tournament for the best national men's teams in the world. From 1966 to 2013 it was held every four years, first by the International Softball Federation (ISF) and from 2019 an onward it is held every two years by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the 16 best teams in the world compete. Results In 1976 the final day was rained out. New Zealand, USA and Canada were all awarded the gold medal. Medal table Participating nations * * * * *Czech Republic has participated as in 1992. Records and statistics ''All statistics are up to date to the end of the 2022 Men's Softball World Championship.'' Individual ; Highest batting average: 0.647, Clark Bosh ( Canada, 1988) ; ; Most Stolen Bases: 6, Brian Rothrock ( United States, 1988); Marty Kernaghan ( Canada, 1988) ; ; Most Doubles: 7, Bob McKinnon ( Canada, 1988) ; ; Most Triples: 4, Redelio Cruz ( Cuba, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuff (website)
Stuff is a New Zealand news media website owned by newspaper conglomerate Stuff Ltd (formerly called Fairfax). It is the most popular news website in New Zealand, with a monthly unique audience of more than 2 million. Stuff was founded in 2000, and publishes breaking news, weather, sport, politics, video, entertainment, business and life and style content from Stuff Ltd's newspapers, which include New Zealand's second- and third-highest circulation daily newspapers, ''The Dominion Post'' and ''The Press'', and the highest circulation weekly, '' Sunday Star-Times'', as well as international news wire services. Stuff has won numerous awards at the Newspaper Publishers' Association awards including 'Best News Website or App' in 2014 and 2019, and 'Website of the Year' in 2013 and 2018. History The former New Zealand media company Independent Newspapers Ltd (INL), owned by News Corp Australia, launched Stuff on 27 June 2000 at a cybercafe in Auckland, after announcing its int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosedale, Auckland
Rosedale is a suburb on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. It is located 12 kilometres north of the city centre, to the south of the suburbs of Pinehill and Albany. It is under the local governance of the Auckland Council. The business and light industrial area of Rosedale was given the name North Harbour Industrial Estate when construction commenced on it in the 1990s. The former North Shore City Council the changed the name of this area back to Rosedale in 2009, as a result of a broader review of suburb names and boundaries in the North Shore. This area is sometimes referred to by the former name. Business North Harbour, the association responsible for the area's business improvement district, retains the place name of North Harbour in their name. Business North Harbour was unhappy with the name change to Rosedale, describing the name as a "stinker" due to the association with the Rosedale Wastewater Treatment Plant and former landfill located in the suburb. Some b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Harbour (field Hockey Team)
The North Harbour women's field hockey team are an amateur sports team based in New Zealand. The team competes annually in the Ford National Hockey League (NHL). North Harbour have won the Women's NHL a total of 5 times, last winning the championship in 2019. Team Roster The following is the North Harbour team roster for the 2019 Ford NHL: Team Staff Head coach: Sam Bartholomew Assostant coaches: Elliot Bartholomew and Henry Wong Team manager: Rachel Williams Team physiotherapist: Tracey Lydiard Team List #Brooke Roberts (GK) #Tori Robinson #Julia Gomes #Kate Ivory #Erin Goad #Mattea Harris #Ella Hyatt-Brown #Josephine Ackroyd #Kathryn Henry #Claudia Hanham #Samantha Polovnikoff #Sophie Rider #Lucia Sanguinetti #Summer Notredame # Kirsten Pearce #Cassandra Reid #Stephanie Dickins #Hattie Jones #Madeleine Forbes (GK) References {{reflist Women's field hockey teams in New Zealand 2000 establishments in New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ventia
Ventia is an Australasian infrastructure service provider. It was established in 2015 when CIMIC Group merged its Leighton Contractors Services, Thiess Services and Visionstream divisions. Apollo Global Management took a 50% shareholding in the company. In June 2020, Broadspectrum was purchased from Ferrovial. In 2021 Ventia was floated on the Australian Securities Exchange and New Zealand Exchange as a dual listed company. CIMIC and Apollo each retained 32.8% shareholdings. In May 2023, both reduced their stakes to 15%. '' |
