Posted on February 11, 2023
Playing rugby and getting paid is a dream comes true for the Springbok Women international, Libbie Janse van Rensburg. As a little girl playing rugby with her nephews on the farm, she would have laughed if someone had told her that she would be playing for the Springbok Women one day....
Posted on January 31, 2023
Time will often show that what is a considerable sacrifice today will be one of the most significant investments you have made in life. This is the reason why Timonique Corbett is not fazed about driving more than 500 kilometres a week to play rugby at Tuks. She is part of the Delta Drone...
Posted on October 10, 2022
The TuksWomensRugby player, Nadine Roos, is a Springbok Women and Sevens international player. Currently, she is part of the South African national women’s rugby team for the 2021 Rugby World Cup – women’s tournament in New Zealand. Beat France and play in the playoffs. That...
Posted on October 07, 2022
Points on the "board" are guaranteed when Libbie Janse van Rensburg steps onto the field to play for the Springbok Women. On the field, she is the TuksWomensRugby Administrative Assistant & Programme Coordinator at TuksRugby. In the recent Test Series against Spain, she scored 32 points....
Posted on October 06, 2022
It will take a significant effort from Tuks to win the 2022 Varsity 7s Rugby edition. Since the tournament's inception in 2012, Tuks was only victorious on one occasion. They were crowned champions in 2018. In 2019, Tuks finished third. The TuksRugby 7s head coach, Dabeon Draghoender's...
Posted on September 26, 2022
Delta Drone TuksWomensRugby 7s coach Riaan van der Merwe wanted to prove that anything is possible with hard work and dedication; and with eight players having played in a Springbok women’s rugby team in the past five months, his team is doing just that.
Posted on September 08, 2022
It is funny how perceptions about sports can change. A few years back, Nolwazi Hlabangane thought rugby was a sport where the only goal was to kill your opponent to be in control of the ball. Nowadays, Hlabangane is the one "doing the killing". She is seemingly quite good at it. The Delta...
Posted on August 31, 2022
Marlize de Bruin has decided to quit netball to focus on playing sevens rugby. Doing so, she proved ‘change is as good as a holiday'. She will represent the Springbok Women’s Sevens at the 2022 Rugby World Cup in Cape Town. De Bruin got her first taste of international rugby in...
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