Posted on April 12, 2022
TuksSwimming: Kaylene Corbett, Pieter Coetzé and Tatjana Schoenmaker qualify for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Another year, another championship, but it is all that has changed. Pieter Coetzé is still the "king of backstroke" in South Africa. During the recent 2022 South African...
Posted on April 12, 2022
TuksRugby: Tuks, under Nico Luus, to contest in the 2022 FNB Varsity Cup semi-finals after a major victory against UJ On Monday, 11 April, Tuks proved that you can't keep a good team down by beating UJ 36-19 in Round 8 of the 2022 FNB Varsity Cup season.
Posted on April 01, 2022
TuksAthletics: Viwe Jingqi of TuksSport High School set a new South Africa U-18 record three times in one day South Africa has got a new sprinting sensation. She is 16, her name is Viwe Jingqi and she fast really fast. She proved it today at the 2022 South African Junior and Youth Athletics...
Posted on March 29, 2022
TuksAthletics: Taylon Bieldt sparks rivalry in South African women’s hurdles racing Real rivalries in South African female athletics are a rarity. One athlete has dominated each event for a few years now, but things are changing, judging by the World Athletics Rankings. Tuks's Zeney...
Posted on March 29, 2022
TuksRugby: Tuks completes a hat trick of FNB Varsity Cup home victories beating Wits On Monday, 28 March, Tuks registered their third consecutive home victory, beating Wits 39-24 in this 2022 FNB Varsity Cup season, but still, it is not guaranteed the team will contest the semi-finals.
Posted on March 25, 2022
TuksRugby: Tuks, under the headship of Kennedy Tsimba, are off to a blazing start in the 2022 FNB Young Guns tournament Played two, won two is, for the moment, how Tuks's Young Guns Varsity Cup report card reads. In their first game, the youngsters "out survived" Ikeys in Cape Town's windy...
Posted on March 22, 2022
On Human Rights Day, Nico Luus (head coach) had just reason to smile after Tuks secured a dominant 61-12 victory against CUT in Round 7 of the 2022 Varsity Cup season.
Posted on March 19, 2022
The Tuks athlete certainly is in good form at the moment. During the recent ASA Grand Prix Meeting in Bloemfontein, he won the men’s long jump with an 8.14m effort. A few days before that, during the 2022 Gauteng North Championships held at the Bestmed TuksAthletics Stadium, he won, jumping...
Posted on March 17, 2022
Tuks beating UWC 51-19 in Round 5 of the 2022 FNB Varsity Cup season proves the team is back to its winning ways, but the players can't afford to rest on their laurels.
Posted on March 15, 2022
TuksAthletics: Marione Fourie is now only the third South African female 100m-hurdler to dip under 13 seconds The South African 100m-hurdles champion, Marione Fourie, managed to do something no other local hurdler had been able to do. That is to run a sub 13 seconds race in South Africa....
Posted on March 13, 2022
TuksAthletics: Zeney van der Walt qualifies for the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, United States
Posted on March 07, 2022
TuksAthletics: Athletics Foundation Trust (AFT) sprinters at TuksSport High School set to keep on pushing boundaries
Posted on March 05, 2022
TuksAtheltics: Marione Fourie confident about becoming the third South African female 100m hurdler to dip under-13s Exactly two. That is how many South African female hurdlers managed to dip under 13 seconds in the 100m-hurdles, but if Marione Fourie can have her way, this statistic will...
Posted on February 21, 2022
TuksSwimming: Stephanie Houtman loves the challenge of long distance swimming There is a long-standing joke every diehard marathoner must have heard at least once, and that is why run when you can drive. In the same vein, the joke to open-water swimmers should be why swim when there are...
Posted on February 18, 2022
TuksWrestling: Tuks wrestler not one to shy away from a challenge Like a moth can't resist circling a burning candle, so can the 19-year-old and Tuks wrestler, Arno van Zijl, cannot resist a real challenge. His aim is to compete at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Junior...
Posted on February 14, 2022
TuksRugby: Tuks vs Maties Varsity Cup encounter is always about pride and passion Every time, Tuks plays Maties in a Varsity Cup clash, the one sure thing is that it will be a humdinger. Monday will be no exception. There is always more at stake than a mere victory for the players. Pride...
Posted on February 14, 2022
The 20-year-old, Bridget Theunissen of TuksTriathlon, is starting to make a habit of finishing every tournament on the podium. On Sunday, 13 February, she was second winning a silver medal with a time of 1:08:34 in the elite women’s category at the 2022 Africa Triathlon Cup - Maselspoort in...
Posted on February 13, 2022
#TuksCanoe: Matt Millward could be the first Tuks canoeist to “podium” in the Dusi Marathon This week, the 19-year old Matt Millward could do what no other Tuks student-athlete ever did, and that is to finish on the podium on day three of the My Life Dusi Canoe Marathon...
Posted on February 04, 2022
#TuksRowing: Hyacinths pose a significant challenge to South African rowers The biggest challenge South African rowers face daily is not to get boats to be faster on the water - it is overcoming Roodeplaatdam's water hyacinths. The plants might just be why South Africa will not win medals...
Posted on January 29, 2022
#TuksHockey: Inky Zondi is confident that the SA women's national field hockey team can be better Inky Zondi got a simplified vision when it comes to coaching hockey. All that matters is to get every player to be at their best every time they play.
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