Sport
Lions Football Club has been one of the most successful community football clubs in Queensland over the past five years, with a total commitment to offering equal resources to their Women’s and Men’s football programs. The Lions FC Women have set the benchmark in women’s football winning three National Premier League (NPL) Premierships, three NPL…
Forest Lake Magpies Junior Rugby League is gearing up for an action-packed season having finished their pre-season training in February. The Forest Lake Magpies have several teams for the 2024 season with a handful of junior teams and an Open Men’s team. To kick start their season, the Under 8’s team received a special invitation…
After facing the devastating loss of their compound and pontoon during the 2022 floods, Forest Lake’s Lakers Dragon Boat Club has resurfaced triumphantly, returning to their home groundson the banks of the Brisbane River in Riverhills Riverhills. Club registrar and promotions officer Tasha Goodson expressed gratitude towards the Brisbane City Council and Jamboree ward councillor…
Wolston Park Cricket Club was pleased to meet with Nathan Spencer and Matthew Willans from Queensland Cricket to discuss how the club progressed with KPIs set for the year. The WPC Executive Committee took this opportunity to discuss the club’s vision to improve the number of kids playing cricket. WPC Cricket Operations Manager, Dush Devendra,…
Forest Lake State High School year 11 student Zack will be representing Australia at the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) championships held in America in 2024. The annual event involves more than 760,000 students from 116 countries who compete to be the World Number 1 in Powerpoint, Word or Excel, successfully performing a number of tasks…
Grand Avenue Chess Team 1 students – Jethro, Vonal, Winston and Blake – placed second at the Brisbane West Interschool Chess Tournament held in September 2023. Their star player Jethro won seven out of seven games, scoring him the 1st place award in the Chair 1 Premier Division. Grand Avenue teacher and chess coordinator Danielle…
Forest Lake student Lola Bryant placed 2nd in the 400 metre sprint and 4th in the 800 metre sprint at the School Sport Athletics Championships State Competition held in October. The 15-year-old, who was representing Forest Lake State High School, has only been sprint training since 2022 and was competing at States for the first…
One of the Forest Lake sports ovals will be transformed into a $90,000 turf cricket pitch by the start of next year. The new pitch will be delivered in a joint partnership between Brisbane Super Kings and Forest Lake Junior Rugby Union Club. It will allow competitive cricket matches to be hosted in…
Forest Lake’s only cricket club, the Brisbane Super Kings, is gearing up for its 10th season in style with a new clubhouse to call home. The clubhouse was the missing piece the Kings had been longing for since they first moved to Heathwood Park, now named Matthew Conwell oval, in 2019. With 32 senior teams…
Year 8 student Sarbani Maitra from St John’s Anglican College has taken home two more state titles in recent QLD and NSW state squash competitions this year. She competed at the Queensland State Titles 2022 in Nerang from June 27 – July 3, where she won the Under 17 Title and Runner Up in the…