Kolonga Rugby Gone Globa II
Dr Teena J. Brown Pulu
“You can tell I’m from Kolonga by the way I do things!”
Photograph 1: Utu-longo-a’a, Kolonga village rugby team in Auckland. The Kolonga forwards pack walking off the field from their game against Leimatu’a village in the Auckland Tongan Rugby Tournament 2007 at Marist Ardmore. […]

View photos of supporters from Tonga of the ‘Ikaletahi Team in the photo gallery. Tonga will face off with South Africa this Saturday in the Rugby World Cup in France.

Tonga upsets team USA 25-15 on the first round of the Rugby World Cup 2007 in France. Read more about it in the Newswire.

KOLONGA IN THE VILLAGE - LOTOPOHA IN AUCKLAND
BY FAKA’OSIFONO VALEVALE AND TEENA PULU
Our ‘home’ rugby team is named after our village, Kolonga, a rural faming community of 1800 people, all family, all related, mostly youth under twenty-five years, set in the Eastern District of Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga . Our village rugby team […]

In February 2003, North Shore Rugby Club’s head coach Patrick Price was preparing to move from his native Southern California to O’ahu, Hawai’i. He had just recently retired from playing rugby and was looking forward to moving to Hawai’i with his fiancée’ Val, who grew up on the north shore.