Posted on February 18, 2024
A medal and African and South African records prove that UP-Tuks swimmers performed well at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Coetzé won bronze in the 200-meter backstroke. The way he swam those last 50 metres is what champions are made from. To come back from eighth to...
Posted on February 16, 2024
Tory Earle's love to challenge herself to the limits led to the Midmar Mile victory. For years to come, statistics will show that Tory Earle won the women's Midmar Mile in 2024. But numbers never tell the whole story. Most will not know Earle competed at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha,...
Posted on February 14, 2024
South Africa's national rowing coach, Tiago Loureiro, aims to get four crews to compete at the Paris Olympic Games. As things stand, it is two done and two to go. John Smith and Chris Baxter ensured that a South African crew would compete in the men's pair race at the Games by finishing sixth at...
Posted on February 12, 2024
The UP-Tuks student-athlete, Karabo Mailula will not defend her Bestmed TuksRace 10km title on Saturday as she is off competing at the 2024 FISU World University Championships Cross Country in Oman. The World University Championship Cross Country is one of the oldest FISU Championships. It was...
Posted on February 09, 2024
Amica de Jager may have done enough in the women's 10km open-water swim race at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics in France. She finished 27th, one minute and 12 seconds behind the race winner, Sharon van Rouwendal (Netherlands). De Jager was...
Posted on February 07, 2024
The word "spike" will undoubtedly impact Danilo von Ludwiger's life in 2024 when he is in the hospital or playing beach volleyball. He is a sixth-year MBCHB student at Tuks. It means he spends a lot of his time in a hospital where a patient's temperature can spike at any moment. When it happens,...
Posted on February 05, 2024
The South African 200-meter backstroke champion Hannah Pearse's only goal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha is to be faster than last year. She is studying BSc Human Physiology, Genetics, and Psychology at UP-Tuks. If she succeeds, it proves that all the long, hard hours in the...
Posted on February 02, 2024
#TuksSwimming: Pieter Coetzé can medal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha. Predicting who might medal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha is risky because, as everyone knows, races are won through guts and determination, not speculation. But there are always...
Posted on January 22, 2024
Making a difference in people's lives through football is Boitumelo Lekalakala's passion. In December, she was awarded the Hollywoodbets Super League Administrator of the Season 2023. That simply sends a statement that she must be doing something right behind the scenes as the TuksFootball Club...
Posted on January 15, 2024
If ever there was a time for swimmers to make sports history, it is 2024, as, for the first time, it is possible to win a world championship and Olympic medal in the same year. The 2024 World Aquatics Championships are in February in Doha, while the Paris Olympic Games start in July. In the...
Posted on December 20, 2023
The Tuks long-distance runner, Collins Kgadima, will undoubtedly agree that behind every successful man, there stands a woman. In his case, there are two women. This past weekend, at the 2023 USSA Cross Country Championships in Bloemfontein, he won the men's 10km title and placed second in the...
Posted on December 15, 2023
The Tuks cricketers have achieved something unique this season: not losing once from January to December. A definite highlight was winning the 2023 USSA Cricket Championships in Cape Town this past weekend. Tuks beat NWU Pukke in the final. Tuks captain, Jack Lees, can be forgiven for thinking,...
Posted on December 13, 2023
UP-Tuks athletes ensured they ended 2023 with a bang by winning five USSA Championships titles in December. One of the feel-good stories is undoubtedly the performance of the TuksFootball Women. Since the 2021 Women’s Varsity Football final, UWC consistently got their best result against...
Posted on December 11, 2023
Early this month, TuksBasketball Women won the USSA Basketball 3x3 Championships, beating UJ 18-15 in the final played at Rhodes University. In 2021, Tuks played in the USSA 5x5 final. It was the first time in 11 years they did so. They did not win. VUT won 65-49, but the die was cast. The Tuks...
Posted on December 08, 2023
Third-time lucky is what the TuksWaterpolo women’s team will be hoping for when they dive in to play Maties' second stringers at the 2023 USSA Water polo Championships in Gqeberha. Tuks lost to Maties in the final in the previous two USSA tournament editions. The captain of Tuks, Maxine...
Posted on December 06, 2023
Making a difference through sport is the one thing Nhlanhla Mabaso is passionate about. But it is a case of first things first. From next week in Cape Town, he will play for Tuks at the 2023 USSA Football Championships edition. Mabaso makes no secret that he and his teammates are out to prove a...
Posted on December 05, 2023
The TuksCricket team made sure they were off to a good start, beating Wits by 59 runs and Maties by six wickets at the 2023 USSA Cricket Championships. Today in Durbanville, Cape Town, Maties batted first. From the third over, things started going wrong for Maties. Matthew Boast got the wicket of...
Posted on November 27, 2023
Statistics are a big part of cricket. There is bound to be a statistic about who is the fastest, quickest, most runs scored, and most wickets taken, to name a few. It is part of what makes cricket exciting. One statistic catches the eye when going through the recent 2023 IXU InterVarsity T20...
Posted on November 23, 2023
If there is one thing Kgahliso Shakira Mamphoke loves doing, it is sidestep and dummy with a rugby ball in hand, and she is pretty good at it. During the 2023 World University Invitational Tournament in September in France, Mamphoke was the top try scorer for the Air France TuksWomensRugby team....
Posted on November 20, 2023
‘Winning rugby’ is Dewey Swartbooi's honest answer when asked what kind of rugby he wants UP-Tuks to play next year in the Varsity Shield competition. The former Blue Bulls player is the newly appointed TuksRugby head coach. Swartbooi admits that saying he wants the team to win is a...
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