Posted on August 19, 2022
Keep your heads up is definitely the motto used by Tuks players in the 2022 Varsity Football edition. On Thursday, 18 August, Tuks secured a major a two-one Tshwane Derby victory against TUT in Round 5. Courtesy of Tuks goalscorers: Ntokozo Madela and Marco Giuricich. This was the third...
Posted on August 11, 2022
When playing the numbers game, it is easy to see that the South African team did well at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in England. In the first seven days, they had won 20 medals, placing them sixth on the medal table. As has become the norm during these Games, Tuks athletes have...
Posted on August 10, 2022
One thing which seemingly never changes in Varsity Football is that there will be a stage when Tuks is against the wall during the tournament. There is that one game they absolutely can't afford to lose because if they do, it is a near certainty that they not be in action in the playoffs....
Posted on August 08, 2022
Jovan van Vuuren of TuksAthletics, is the fourth South African men’s long jumper to medal at the Commonwealth Games On day seven at the Birmingham2022 Commonwealth Games, Jovan van Vuuren of TuksAthletics, did something in Birmingham that few other South African men’s long jumpers...
Posted on August 01, 2022
On Sunday, 31 July, Tatjana Schoenmaker and Kaylene Corbett won gold and bronze medals in the women’s 200m-breaststroke final at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, achieving a historic victory for South African swimming. They are the first two female swimmers to medal in the same...
Posted on July 31, 2022
The football legend Cristiano Ronaldo once said, "If you don't believe you are the best, you will never achieve all that you are capable of." The 18-year-old Tuks swimmer, Pieter Coetzé, took these words took to heart. It is paid dividends. Last night in Birmingham, he became a Commonwealth...
Posted on July 23, 2022
Tuks student, Rimari Sutton, is set to compete at the 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships that will take place from 24 to 28 August in Les Gets, France. 11 years ago, she promised herself that she would never cycle again, at least not competitively. To her, there was no fun to...
Posted on July 22, 2022
It is said that "the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time", which is precisely what Arno van Zijl of TuksWrestling, plans on doing at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in England. But don't get him wrong. The Tuks wrestler is not planning to go on an eating marathon. It is...
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