AIMS Games

Team spirit the aim of the game

Mount Maunganui Intermediate's Rip Rugby team will leave no player behind for this year's Zespri Aims Games. Kicking off this Saturday, September 2, nearly... Read More

Plenty of play at AIMS Games in Tauranga

The countdown is on to the 2023 Zespri AIMS Games, which kicks off this weekend. The week long event is one of Australasia's largest junior sporting events,... Read More

AIMS Games: Athletes tackle waste at the beach

Teams of athletes gathered at Mount Maunganui this week to take part in the inaugural Zespri AIMS Games Gives Back, a beach clean-up led by Tauranga City Council... Read More

AIMS Games in photos

The Zespri AIMS Games are in full swing in Tauranga this week. More than 25,000 athletes, officials and supporters are taking part in 23 sports codes around the... Read More

Winter woolies welcome at chilly AIMS Games

Athletes from an Auckland school have been toastier than most at Zespri AIMS Games this week. Bucklands Beach Intermediate competitors are wrapped in golden scarves,... Read More

Weather woes can‘t stop Nelson AIMS star

Liam Howes has found some fine weather - 'finally”. The 12-year-old from Waimea Intermediate School in Richmond has had a wet - and bumpy - road to the... Read More

Schools out as Otakiri bowls up to AIMS

Classrooms are especially quiet at a small rural Bay of Plenty school this week, thanks to the Zespri AIMS Games. More than half of Otakiri School's eligible... Read More

How Zespri AIMS Games helped save intermediates

Henk Popping, co-creator of the Zespri AIMS Games and principal of Otumoetai Intermediate, was supposed to be sitting in a conference at Wairakei. Instead, he... Read More

Massive support as AIMS athletes flock to Tauranga

The Zespri AIMS Games is set to make a triumphant return to Tauranga after two years of pandemic-related heartbreak. Registrations have now closed for the 2022... Read More

Indoor cricket added to 2022 AIMS Games

While their world championship-winning Black Caps heroes cool their heels in quarantine, a group of young Tauranga cricketers face a longer but equally exciting... Read More

Kids keen for football return

Two months with no sport has been tough for many, which is why Fun First Football owner Colm Kenny wanted to get kids back on the field as quickly as possible. 'During... Read More

Record economic returns for AIMS Games

This year's AIMS Games event injected nearly $6.5million into the Bay of Plenty's economy, a new report reveals. It's a 108 per cent increase from the last economic... Read More