Posted on June 07, 2018
Pretoria teenager and Tuks/ HPC Golf Academy player Otto van Buynder staged a dramatic comeback to seal a sensational maiden victory on the Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour at Randpark Golf Club on Wednesday.
Posted on June 06, 2018
Tuks/HPC Golf Academy player, Otto van Buynder didn’t replicate the fireworks of the first round, but he will take a commanding lead into the final round of the fourth Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour event at Randpark Golf Club.
Posted on June 05, 2018
Rikenette Steenkamp set a new South African record last night during Memorial Josefa Odlozila Meeting in Prague when she ran 12.91s in the 100m-hurdles.
Posted on June 05, 2018
Otto van Buynder, Tuks/HPC Golf Academy player came close to producing the first 59 in Big Easy or IGT Challenge Tour history in the first round of the fourth Big Easy IGT Challenge Tour event at Randpark, but the amateur had to ‘settle’ for a brilliant 11 at the Firethorn on Monday.
Posted on June 04, 2018
It was predicted that Kirsten McCann and Nicole van Wyk can become a formidable rowing combination. Yesterday in Belgrade in their first World Cup outing as a lightweight double sculls crew they did not disappoint winning a silver medal.
Posted on June 04, 2018
The women’s Comrades-race might just on Sunday play out to be like the fabled race between the hare and the tortoise in which it is not the fastest runner winning but the cleverest.
Posted on May 31, 2018
SA’s foremost rowers will face their first real challenge when they compete in Belgrade World Cup.
Posted on May 30, 2018
To become a dominant force in the 100 metres is the goal Akani Simbine had set himself for 2018.
Posted on May 23, 2018
The fictional characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee are known to most, but what people might not know is that Tuks got a real-life version – Thando and Tebogo – and they are indeed much faster.
Posted on May 18, 2018
Paul Schwieger, TuksSport High School learner is a firm believer that hard work and dedication is the key to becoming a good tennis player.
Posted on May 17, 2018
The Tuks Judokas had a good showing the past weekend at the African Junior and Cadet Championships in Burundi winning a total of 14 medals.
Posted on May 10, 2018
Wenda Nel will be challenged by champions on Saturday when she lines up to compete in the 400m-hurdles at the Shanghai Diamond League Meeting.
Posted on May 10, 2018
The battle to be in the boats that will try and qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will start in earnest when South Africa’s top rowers get to compete at the Belgrade World Cup in three week’s time.
Posted on May 07, 2018
A lifetime of dreaming coming true is how Carina Horn describes her 10.98s race at the Doha Diamond League Meeting on Friday.
Posted on May 06, 2018
Carina Horn took being the trailblazer of South African women’s sprinting to a whole new level yesterday during the Doha Diamond League Meeting when she clocked 10.98s to become the first to dip under 11 seconds.
Posted on May 03, 2018
Patience, persistence and resilience will be Cornel Fredericks’s motto in the build-up to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Posted on May 03, 2018
Carina Horn might dip under 11 seconds tomorrow during the 100m at the Diamond League Meeting in Doha.
Posted on April 30, 2018
Judging by what has been happening in the last two months in swimming it would seem that Tuks has become the training ground for current and future women’s breaststroke champions.
Posted on April 30, 2018
Rikenette Steenkamp (Tuks) is going to set a new South African record in the 100m-hurdles the question is just when she is going to do so.
Posted on April 25, 2018
One of the special moments so far during the University of Pretoria’s graduation ceremonies was when Michaela Whitebooi stepped on to the stage as an acknowledgement for having completed her BCom Financial Science degree.
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