UP EXPERT OPINION: Empowering all girls and women: Sport can be the equaliser

Posted on August 23, 2023

Creating sporting opportunities for women with disabilities can help achieve the global goals of gender equality by empowering them to acquire skills, says Director of UP’s Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Prof Juan Bornman.

UP introduces first-ever fully online undergraduate programme

Posted on August 23, 2023

The University of Pretoria launched its first-ever fully online undergraduate programme, the Higher Certificate in Sports Sciences, at an event that took place on the Hatfield Campus on 18 August 2023.

‘My role is to lead by example – not force,’ says Tuks women's football team captain Manamela

Posted on August 14, 2023

"The mark of a great captain is not just winning games but creating a winning culture," says the captain of the Tuks women's football team, Morongwa Manamela, as she takes the reins once again.

#UPGraduation2023: Engineering graduate and swimming champ ready to dive into next chapter

Posted on May 10, 2023

UP engineering graduate Chase Onorati says his family has a “contagious sense of dedication and determination”, which likely explains his recent achievements not only in the academic arena, but in the swimming pool too.

Excelling in the swimming pool and lecture halls of UP was a 4-year balancing act well worth it, says SA Sports Star of the Year Schoenmaker

Posted on February 28, 2023

Tatjana Schoenmaker is better known as a pro athlete. What is perhaps lesser known about the 23-year-old swimming sensation is that she has just completed her BCom (Financial Sciences) degree at UP, becoming one of 11 000 UP students who graduated in a virtual ceremony last month.

TuksSport High School's top matric ‘soloed’ to six distinctions

Posted on January 23, 2023

TuksSport High School's matrics of 2022 managed to achieve a 100% pass rate, with Chris-Dian Haasbroek and fellow learner Rivers Williams passing with six distinctions each.

#TuksWomensRugby: Delta Drone Tuks helps talented rugby players become Springbok Women

Posted on September 26, 2022

Delta Drone TuksWomensRugby 7s coach Riaan van der Merwe wanted to prove that anything is possible with hard work and dedication; and with eight players having played in a Springbok women’s rugby team in the past five months, his team is doing just that.

UP EXPERT OPINION: Stellar record shows Rafael Nadal is in a league of his own

Posted on June 14, 2022

“The hallmark of Rafael Nadal’s game has been that of a master matador with the ferociousness of a prowling tiger and a never-say-die attitude,” writes Prof Adekeye Adebajo, UP Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, about the Spanish tennis giant.