Posted on January 13, 2025
Amanda Mynhardt, former Protea captain, has been appointed as the new TuksNetball Head Coach, effective January 2025. No stranger to the coaching world, Mynhardt brings a track record of success. Under her leadership, the Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool (Affies) first team was crowned national...
Posted on September 27, 2024
Playing for the "Stripes" took on new meaning when the TuksNetball team secured a crucial 56-48 victory against UJ in Round 7 of the 2024 Varsity Netball campaign. This win is hailed as one of the most memorable in TuksNetball history, as the defending champions had their backs against the wall...
Posted on September 20, 2024
From Sunday, it's all to play for in the upcoming rounds 6 and 7 of the 2024 Varsity Netball edition in Bloemfontein. Even Hollywood’s best writers would struggle to script a more thrilling finish to the tournament. Currently, UJ tops the log with 20 points, followed by Kovsies with 17,...
Posted on September 10, 2024
In a nail-biting finish in Gqeberha, Tuks' unbeaten streak came to a halt as they fell 62–61 to North-West University (NWU) in Round 4 of the 2024 Varsity Netball campaign. This marks Tuks' first defeat in 13 games, after going undefeated throughout last year’s Varsity campaign with...
Posted on September 03, 2024
Another year brings another Varsity Netball tournament, and one thing remains consistent—Tuks’ winning streak. The team has clinched the title three times, in 2017, 2019, and 2023. The 2024 edition kicked off on Sunday, and Tuks continues its unbeaten run. They secured a dominant...
Posted on August 31, 2024
Starting Sunday, Tuks, the defending champions of Varsity Netball, will aim to achieve what no previous Tuks team has managed: to successfully defend their title. Tuks boasts an impressive Varsity Netball record, having won the tournament three times (2017, 2019, and 2023). Only Kovsies, with...
Posted on June 28, 2024
Predicting a sports tournament's outcome is looking for trouble, as there is a real chance of getting it wrong. But there are exceptions. Especially if the prediction is made by someone guaranteed to be amid the action every minute of every game. UP-Tuks student-athlete, Kamogelo Maseko, is such...
Posted on June 28, 2024
Predicting a sports tournament's outcome is looking for trouble, as there is a real chance of getting it wrong. But there are exceptions. Especially if the prediction is made by someone guaranteed to be amid the action every minute of every game. UP-Tuks student-athlete and TuksNetball...
Posted on June 21, 2024
As a netball player, Erin Burger can genuinely claim to have been there and done that and got the t-shirt to prove it. She is the first to reach a milestone mark of 100 caps for the SPAR Proteas while having called it a day on her international career with 125 games for the national team. The...
Posted on May 30, 2024
The Gauteng Jaguars can claim a unique sports record, which is to have played in every final of the National Netball League. It is difficult to think of another South African team in any sport that can boast of having played ten consecutive finals. The Jaguars have been victorious on six...
Posted on March 04, 2024
Jenny van Dyk, the "Coach with the Midas Touch", is now up to her new challenge after she is appointed the new SPAR Proteas head coach. When announcing that Van Dyk is the new national head coach, Cecilia Molokwane (Netball South Africa President) said, "Jenny has won everything under the sun. It...
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 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 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 17, 2023
To most, being young in sports equates to inexperience, but Kamogelo Maseko is one for whom the "glass will always be half full and not half empty". "It is a given that we are a relatively inexperienced team. Quite a few of my teammates will play in varsity netball for the first time. I don't...
Posted on July 11, 2023
One title in the bag; now the fight to win a second title is the challenge that quite a few Tuks players will face this week during the USSA Netball Championships in Stellenbosch. On Saturday night, the Jaguars emerged victorious in the Telkom National League against the Crinums, scoring 59 to...
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