Posted on October 10, 2023
The TuksRugby U-20 team ended their season on a high by winning the inaugural UXi Cross-Border Competition by beating Hamiltons 61-14 in the final played in Pretoria. The heroics of the youngsters bode well for the future of TuksRugby. Next year, some of them could be in the vanguard in the...
Posted on October 03, 2023
The Tukswomen Rugby 7s team finished third, winning bronze at the recent 2023 World University Rugby Invitational Tournament in Bordeaux, France. Riaan van der Merwe (TuksWomens Rugby 7s head coach) sees it as one of his team's gutsiest performances especially as some of the biggest challenges...
Posted on October 01, 2023
One thing the Master’s student at UP-Tuks, Maxine Hannan, loves doing is making a difference. It does not matter whether she is fighting for the ball in the pool, duelling it out with sticks to gain possession on an Astroturf, or sitting down to talk; the outcome must be the same. Hannan...
Posted on September 22, 2023
No Varsity Cricket tournament this year, no problem. TuksCricket has decided to host the IXU Intervarsity T20 Tournament starting on Saturday, September 23. "University cricket players must get an opportunity to play T20 Cricket. That is why we have decided to host the tournament. We are...
Posted on September 21, 2023
Faranah Burger knows only one way to play rugby: to put her body on the line, and with good reason, she wants the team to win. Saturday in Kimberley will be no exception. Burger is co-captaining the Delta Drone TuksWomensRugby Sevens team at the USSA Rugby 7s Championships. Earlier this year,...
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 14, 2023
The Proteas national team hockey player, Edith Molikoe, is an unashamedly daddy's girl. Her dad, John, is, after all, the one who has inspired her to never accept mediocrity when doing sports and encouraged her to be the best she can be.The TuksHockey women's co-captain still remembers the day...
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 11, 2023
When it comes to hockey, Celia Seerane can genuinely claim to have done it all. The 33-year-old and Tuks hockey player has 173 caps playing for the women's national hockey team, scored 20 goals, was South Africa's female player of the year in 2017, and is an Olympian. The hunger to play on...
Posted on September 06, 2023
Tia Casswell will aim to set up goal-scoring opportunities when she plays for South Africa during the upcoming 2023 World Aquatics Women’s U20 Water Polo Championships in Portugal. According to the Tuks second-year medical student, water polo is the ultimate game. Esihle Zondo is also...
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 25, 2023
Many might wonder why this is relevant to tomorrow's Carlton Cup semi-final clash between Tuks and Naka Bulls. If one goes according to the results, the Naka Bulls are the favorites to win. After all, they have done so twice already in the competition. But results and numbers in sports will...
Posted on August 16, 2023
When Marione Fourie settles into her starting blocks to race the 100-metre hurdles at the World Championships in Budapest, she will aim to qualify for the final. If she does, she will be the first South African female athlete to do so in the short hurdles race. She finished fifth in the...
Posted on August 08, 2023
Marlie Viljoen has been racing the 400 metres for a while, getting faster, but few noticed that until last week when she won the gold at the FISU World University Games in Chengdu, China. It was the cherry on top of a brilliant season for the Tuks student-athlete. She has won 10 of the 20...
Posted on August 05, 2023
To make South Africa proud. That is the challenge Banyana Banyana are set for tomorrow when they clash against the Netherlands in the round of 16 of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. "What motivated us is to make history, remembering everyone back at home...
Posted on August 01, 2023
The Tuks law student, Christian de Klerk, won South Africa's first medal at the FISU World University Games in Chengdu, China, by not missing many bulls with his bow. He finished second in the compound archery competition. He might be the first South African archer to medal at the World Student...
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