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Australian athletics star Kim Mickle was awarded the Western Australian Institute of Sport's highest honour at the weekend, crowned the WAIS Athlete of the Year in front of 470 guests at the 2013 WAIS Annual Dinner.

Dual Olympian and WAIS scholarship holder Kobie McGurk has announced her retirement from international duties after a stellar nine-year career, spanning 185 caps with the Hockeyroos.

The Western Australian Institute of Sport will this week crown its 2013 WAIS Athlete of the Year at its Annual Dinner at Challenge Stadium in front of over 450 guests.

A dominant second half performance by the Kookaburras has earned Australia a commanding 5-2 victory over New Zealand in the Oceania Cup final confirming an eighth consecutive Oceania Cup title for the Kookaburras.

The Hockeyroos have claimed a dramatic Oceania Cup win with a sudden death shoot-out victory over trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand after the final finished 2-2.

WAIS cyclist Elissa Wundersitz has won a bronze medal on her senior track world cup debut, at the UCI event >

WAIS wheelchair basketball athletes have been selected in the men's and women's National teams set to contest the Kitakyushu Cup >

Phase one of Olympic qualification for Australian skeleton athletes was finalised last weekend in Lake Placid with John Farrow, Michelle >

AIS-WAIS hockey athletes Kobie McGurk, Jayde Taylor and Ashleigh Nelson have put themselves firmly in the selection frame for this year's World League Finals after being named in the Hockeyroos side for the Perth International Super Series which starts next week.

Hockey Australia has announced two Kookaburras squads ahead of next week's International Super Series Hockey 9s tournament in Perth and the Oceania Cup in Taranaki, New Zealand later this month.