#TuksSport: Mr Steven Ball, new TuksSport Director wants student-athletes to strive to make a difference

Posted on January 29, 2021

Many years ago, a young boy in Ladysmith loved nothing more than to do all kinds of sports and dive into swimming pools. Like many youngsters, he had hoped to become one of the best. When he realised early on it would not happen, he did not get discouraged. Through his participation, he had...

#TuksAthletics: Speed is Thando Dlodlo’s passion and to him, it is not only about beating the stopwatch on a synthetic track

Posted on January 20, 2021

Thando Dlodlo will be all "Striped-up" when he lines up to race the 100 metres for the first time this season as he has joined the TuksAthletics Club. For South African athletics, it is good news. Every member of the South African 4x100m-relay team that set the new national and Africa record...

#TuksAthletics: "At times during the current pandemic, it feels like we go one step forward and two backwards." — Rikenette Steenkamp

Posted on January 16, 2021

The South African 100m-hurdles record-holder, Rikenette Steenkamp's plans of maybe competing indoors in Europe got derailed when she tested positive for COVID-19. The Puma-Tuks athlete has been confined to bed for the past week due to severe headaches and other flu-like symptoms. Her energy...

#TuksAtheltics: Emile 'Big Man' Erasmus keen to challenge the stopwatch again

Posted on January 14, 2021

Emile Erasmus of Tuks, could be described as the South African sprinter who got lost in action, but it will be a mistake to forget about the "big man". COVID-19 pandemic allowing 2021 could be the year in which he resumes his battle with the stopwatch in earnest. If he "wins" it is guaranteed...

#TuksSport: Q&A with Fundiswa Hlobo at TuksAthletics and her advice to aspiring athletics administrators

Posted on November 19, 2020

Fundiswa Hlobo is a TuksAthletics Academy Manager at TuksSport. Last year, she served as a Team Leader of the USSA Athletics team at the World University Games in Napoli, Italy.

#TuksAthletics: Roberts excited to make a 110m-hurdles comeback

Posted on November 06, 2020

Is less better? The Tuks athlete, Rivaldo Roberts, will hopefully know by the end of April next year whether his decision to switch back to 110m-hurdles is the right one.

#TuksAthletics: Tuks athletes excited to be racing again

Posted on November 03, 2020

"On your marks . . . get set . . . go." These are the words most athletes have been "dying" to hear since level one of the national lockdown has been announced.

#TuksAthletics signs exciting new prospects for 2021

Posted on October 13, 2020

Tuks's beefed up their sprinting talent with the signing of the 18-year-old Eckhardt Potgieter.