Posted on March 04, 2024
Jenny van Dyk, the "Coach with the Midas Touch", is now up to her new challenge after she is appointed the new SPAR Proteas head coach. When announcing that Van Dyk is the new national head coach, Cecilia Molokwane (Netball South Africa President) said, "Jenny has won everything under the sun. It...
Posted on September 19, 2023
Tuks, who were unbeaten in nine games, beat UJ 63-61 in the final.
Posted on September 17, 2023
The TuksNetball team is one game away from repeating a fantastic feat: remaining unbeaten throughout the 2023 Varsity Netball campaign. In the history of Varsity Netball, it only happened once that a Tuks team managed to go through their whole campaign without losing a match. It was in 2019....
Posted on September 12, 2023
60 minutes of faultless netball is what Tuks will have to come up with if they want to win the Varsity Tournament for the third time. On Monday, September 21, on their home turf at Rembrandt Hall, Tuks will face off against UJ in the final. Judging by the results, it is going to be a...
Posted on September 05, 2023
The TuksNetball team is on track to achieve something they have only managed to do once. That is, to remain unbeaten throughout the Varsity Netball Tournament. Last night in Stellenbosch, they notched up their seventh consecutive victory, beating NWU 67-52. In doing so, they ensured they...
Posted on September 01, 2023
Unbeaten and top of the 2023 Varsity Netball log standings. It would be a mistake to think that the "Tuks Girls" have reached their peak. Phophi Nematangari confidently predicts that the best is yet to come. She would know, being one of the team's star players. Nematangari was Player of the...
Posted on August 29, 2023
Perfection in sports is impossible, but it is said that if you chase perfection, you can catch excellence. The TuksNetball team proved it last night in Soweto when they outplayed Maties with a 6-38 win in Round 5 of the 2023 Varsity Netball edition. It is a result no one saw coming. Maties...
Posted on August 25, 2023
Two games and two victories are not too shabby, but Tuks's real battle to win the 2023 Varsity Netball edition still lies ahead. On Saturday in Soweto, Tuks will be playing Kovsies and, on Monday, Maties. If Tuks can win both games, they are nearly sure to contest the semi-finals. But it is...
Posted on August 17, 2023
To most, being young in sports equates to inexperience, but Kamogelo Maseko is one for whom the "glass will always be half full and not half empty". "It is a given that we are a relatively inexperienced team. Quite a few of my teammates will play in varsity netball for the first time. I don't...
Posted on July 11, 2023
One title in the bag; now the fight to win a second title is the challenge that quite a few Tuks players will face this week during the USSA Netball Championships in Stellenbosch. On Saturday night, the Jaguars emerged victorious in the Telkom National League against the Crinums, scoring 59 to...
Posted on June 25, 2023
The TuksNetball captain, Kamogelo Maseko, sees her best quality as that of being a grinder every time she steps onto the court. In sports, a grinder is defined as someone who may not have the most outstanding natural skills or physical attributes but is still a great player. It is usually...
Posted on April 15, 2023
This month, the 2023 netball clinics, presented by the TuksNetball Club with Jenny van Dyk (head coach), were a resounding success says Camp Discovery. Over 3600 girls and 500 coaches and teachers from more than 80 schools participated in the clinics, which were hosted by Camp Discovery. The...
Posted on September 30, 2022
120 minutes of near-perfect netball is what is required from Tuks to qualify for the semi-finals of the 2022 Varsity Netball edition. Things will come to a boil when the eight teams clash in the tournament's last pool games over the weekend in Bloemfontein. There is a lot at stake. So far,...
Posted on September 16, 2022
Leadership is earned, not demanded is Mbalenhle Ntuli's mindset in the 2022 Varsity Netball edition. She has been appointed as the captain of the TuksNetball team for the current competition. In 2019, she was part of the Tuks team that won the Varsity Netball title following their unbeaten run...
Posted on September 12, 2022
TuksNetball hopes to get going when the going gets tough during the 2022 Varsity Netball tournament but it is not going to be easy. If there is one phrase the Tuks head coach, Jenny van Dyk, dislikes to use, it is that her team is in a rebuilding phase. Unfortunately, for now, it is what it is....
Posted on October 20, 2021
TuksNetball Head of Programme & Head Coach, Jenny van Dyk, is the coach with the "Midas touch". The results are proving. Since August, the teams coached by her won four of the five national tournaments they contested. The climax was on Sunday when the Jaguars won the 2021 Telkom Netball...
Posted on October 12, 2021
The Gauteng Jaguars, under the headship of Jenny van Dyk (Head of Programme & Head Coach at TuksNetball), have fine-tuned winning games into art in the 2021 Telkom Netball League. The team won their first nine games on the trot scoring 463 goals and conceding 310. It means, the Jaguars...
Posted on September 20, 2021
#TuksNetball: Chantelle Swart hopes to guide Tuks to lift the 2021 USSA Netball Championships title The ball goes through the netball hoop, Chantelle Swart quickly turns around, and smiles, it is game on. That smile is sort of becoming the TuksNetball captain’s on-court trademark....
Posted on September 06, 2021
#TuksNetball: Marlize de Bruin looks forward to the challenge of captaining the Jaguars in the 2021 Telkom Netball League Marlize de Bruin seems to be a ‘jack of all trades and master of all’, when it comes to netball. Five days ago, she was sitting on the sidelines as Tuks...
Posted on September 05, 2021
#TuksNetball: “Naturally, I want the teams I coach to win every time they play,” says Jenny van Dyk ahead of the 2021 Telkom Netball League Can the Jaguars be stopped? This will be the big question from Sunday when the first leg of the 2021 Telkom Netball League is played at the...
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