Posted on June 25, 2023
The TuksNetball captain, Kamogelo Maseko, sees her best quality as that of being a grinder every time she steps onto the court. In sports, a grinder is defined as someone who may not have the most outstanding natural skills or physical attributes but is still a great player. It is usually...
Posted on April 15, 2023
This month, the 2023 netball clinics, presented by the TuksNetball Club with Jenny van Dyk (head coach), were a resounding success says Camp Discovery. Over 3600 girls and 500 coaches and teachers from more than 80 schools participated in the clinics, which were hosted by Camp Discovery. The...
Posted on September 30, 2022
120 minutes of near-perfect netball is what is required from Tuks to qualify for the semi-finals of the 2022 Varsity Netball edition. Things will come to a boil when the eight teams clash in the tournament's last pool games over the weekend in Bloemfontein. There is a lot at stake. So far,...
Posted on September 16, 2022
Leadership is earned, not demanded is Mbalenhle Ntuli's mindset in the 2022 Varsity Netball edition. She has been appointed as the captain of the TuksNetball team for the current competition. In 2019, she was part of the Tuks team that won the Varsity Netball title following their unbeaten run...
Posted on September 12, 2022
TuksNetball hopes to get going when the going gets tough during the 2022 Varsity Netball tournament but it is not going to be easy. If there is one phrase the Tuks head coach, Jenny van Dyk, dislikes to use, it is that her team is in a rebuilding phase. Unfortunately, for now, it is what it is....
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...
Posted on October 12, 2021
The Gauteng Jaguars, under the headship of Jenny van Dyk (Head of Programme & Head Coach at TuksNetball), have fine-tuned winning games into art in the 2021 Telkom Netball League. The team won their first nine games on the trot scoring 463 goals and conceding 310. It means, the Jaguars...
Posted on September 20, 2021
#TuksNetball: Chantelle Swart hopes to guide Tuks to lift the 2021 USSA Netball Championships title The ball goes through the netball hoop, Chantelle Swart quickly turns around, and smiles, it is game on. That smile is sort of becoming the TuksNetball captain’s on-court trademark....
Posted on September 06, 2021
#TuksNetball: Marlize de Bruin looks forward to the challenge of captaining the Jaguars in the 2021 Telkom Netball League Marlize de Bruin seems to be a ‘jack of all trades and master of all’, when it comes to netball. Five days ago, she was sitting on the sidelines as Tuks...
Posted on September 05, 2021
#TuksNetball: “Naturally, I want the teams I coach to win every time they play,” says Jenny van Dyk ahead of the 2021 Telkom Netball League Can the Jaguars be stopped? This will be the big question from Sunday when the first leg of the 2021 Telkom Netball League is played at the...
Posted on August 20, 2021
TuksNetball, from next week in Stellenbosch, will try and defend the Varsity Netball title they won in 2019. Danielle van Zyl is one of the players Tuks will undoubtedly rely on to impact during their games. She was, after all, part of the 2019 winning team. Her heroics led to her being...
Posted on August 17, 2021
The Tuks U-20 netball team is the 2021 Gauteng Twizza Netball Club Championships title winners beating Harlequins 31-24 in the final over the weekend in Johannesburg. It was sweet revenge for Tuks. They lost against Harlequins in the Gauteng North-final of the Championships.
Posted on August 13, 2021
#TuksNetball: Jenny van Dyk has done her homework ahead of the upcoming 2021 Varsity Netball competition in Stellenbosch It is often said that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Therefore, it will stand TuksNetball’s players in good stead if they can remember this....
Posted on April 22, 2021
Shadine van der Merwe is considered a leading defensive player in netball, but she could have been lost to the game if it was not for the TuksNetball Head of Programme & Head Coach, Jenny van Dyk. A few years back, she was genuinely frustrated. It felt like her netball career was going...
Posted on April 17, 2021
How does one recognise Chantelle Swart on the netball court? The answer is simple. The Tuks netball player is the smiling one. She seemingly enjoys being in the midst of the action. Every time she scores, her smile lingers a little bit longer. Last month, Swart had a reason for doing so....
Posted on March 03, 2021
It will be a case of ‘LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER’ when the TuksNetball duo - Jani Bergh and Euné Odendaal – takes it to the court to play their first official match this season. More than two decades ago, Dr Wilma Bergh and René Odendaal played for Tuks. They both earned...
Posted on February 14, 2021
South Africa's fittest netball player is how Tuks's Marlize de Bruin is often described during major local tournaments. She never seems to tire. From the moment she steps onto the court, she is in the midst of the centre court action. If she is not chasing after the ball, she launches herself...
Posted on October 28, 2020
The Jaguars achieved two new milestones last night in Bloemfontein when they beat the Crinums 38-26 in the final of the Telkom Netball League.
Posted on October 26, 2020
The Jaguars will contest the final of the Telkom Netball League for a record seventh time after beating the Stings 42-36 in the first semifinal played yesterday afternoon in Bloemfontein.
Posted on October 24, 2020
The Jaguars notched up their eighth victory in the Telkom Netball League yesterday afternoon in Bloemfontein when they outplayed the Stings to win 38-32.
Copyright © University of Pretoria 2025. All rights reserved.
Virtual Campus
Get Social With Us
Download the UP Mobile App