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.
Posted on January 22, 2022
#TuksAthletics: Wayne Snyman sets a new men’s race walk national record at the 2022 ASA 35km Race Walking Champs If his body allows for it, Wayne Snyman might just do something that few South African race walkers have ever done before. That is competing in two events at the World...
Posted on January 14, 2022
#TuksTennis: Donald Ramphadi to make “history” at the 2022 Australian Open Donald Ramphadi will be making "sports history" the very first time his racket connects with the ball during Melbourne's Australian Open Wheelchair Tennis Tournament in Melbourne (23-27 January) 2022.
Posted on December 01, 2021
#TuksVolleball: Q&A with Dina Kladis about her love for beach volleyball and why she is an avid reader Dina Kladis is a coach of the women’s team at the TuksVolleyball. In 2017, she guided UP-Tuks to win the 2017 Varsity Beach Volleyball. She currently serves as the head coach...
Posted on November 16, 2021
The 2020 Olympic gold medallist and World Record holder, Tatjana Schoenmaker (now a TuksSport High School matriculant), is the University of Pretoria Sportswoman of the Year. On Monday, 15 November, at the Future Africa Campus, it was also announced that she is the TuksSport Newsmaker of the...
Posted on November 08, 2021
What she started doing in anger became a passion. Abueng Sekgwelea is now the Secretary-General of the South African Taekwondo Federation. If she can have her way, every young girl should consider taking up the sport. Sekgwelea takes up her story herself.
Posted on November 03, 2021
#TuksWomensRugby: Janse van Rensburg cannot wait to score for the Springbok Women again ahead of their 2021 November Series in Europe
Posted on October 25, 2021
#TuksTennis: Tuks win the overall title at the 2021 FASU Tennis Slam Championships in Kampala, Uganda That is one way to describe the final day of the recent 2021 FASU Tennis Slam Championships in Kampala, Uganda. Overall, Tuks, under the headship of Blaise Izungu, finished first place and...
Posted on October 20, 2021
TuksNetball Head of Programme & Head Coach, Jenny van Dyk, is the coach with the "Midas touch". The results are proving. Since August, the teams coached by her won four of the five national tournaments they contested. The climax was on Sunday when the Jaguars won the 2021 Telkom Netball...
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