Posted on March 31, 2023
To tackle, dummy, and score tries on a rugby field is nothing new to TuksWomensRugby players. They have been doing so for years and are pretty good at it. The Delta Drone TuksWomensRugby Sevens team has won numerous international tournaments including the African Student and won the inaugural...
Posted on March 29, 2023
The 2023 FNB Young Guns campaign began early this month and Tuks has secured three successive wins. The Tuks Young Guns head coach, Allen ‘Major’ Soutter, is upbeat about his team's chances to retain the Varsity Young Guns title. Tuks has fallen short once and that was against NWU...
Posted on March 20, 2023
When Jayden Sam runs onto a rugby field, it is to prove that size does not matter and the main goal is to make his dad proud. He will lead Tuks in the 2023 FNB Varsity Young Guns campaign. He is 1.67 metres tall and weighs barely more than 70 kilograms, but be aware. Sam firmly believes that...
Posted on March 09, 2023
Losing three games in a row is certainly different from how the defending Varsity Cup champions, Tuks, hoped to kick off their 2023 FNB Varsity Cup campaign. As things stand, Tuks is bottom of the log with only three points to their name. North West University and Wits are leading upfront...
Posted on March 04, 2023
The Tuks fullback Kyle Cyster proves that dynamite comes in small packages. Cyster is 1.73 metres tall and weighs 71 kilograms. It means he is arguably one of the smallest players in the 2023 FNB Varsity Cup tournament. But what he lacks in stature, he makes up with guts and skills. Once he...
Posted on February 21, 2023
Losing by one point to UFS Shimlas is undoubtedly not how Tuks would have liked to start their defence of the Varsity Cup title, but still, there are some positives they can take from the game. The one thing that became clear last night is that this Tuks team has guts. They never give up. Only...
Posted on February 20, 2023
The TuksRugby team could rewrite the Varsity Cup tournament records books should they be victorious in the final in April. It would be the third consecutive time Tuks will claim the title. Only Maties (2008-2010) has been able to do so. It would be the sixth title for Tuks. As things stand,...
Posted on February 16, 2023
Making predictions in sports is always risky, but it is safe to say that Monday's 2023 FNB Varsity Cup encounter between Tuks and Shimlas will be a humdinger. It can't be helped. There are scores to be settled. Last year, the two teams clashed twice. Shimlas was victorious, winning the pool...
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...
Posted on July 11, 2022
TuksWomensRugby: Riaan van der Merwe impressed with Kemisetso Baloyi at the 2022 Brussel's International Rugby 7's in Belgium It was close but no cigar for the Delta Drone TuksWomensRugby 7’s team as they lost against Rugban in the final of the 2022 Brussel's International Rugby 7's in...
Posted on July 04, 2022
Stephan ‘Karools’ Smit of TuksRugby, looks up to the All Blacks legend, Richie McCaw. Karools is the captain of Tuks in the 2022 USSA Rugby Championships - Men's 15s
Posted on June 14, 2022
TuksWomensRugby: "Big hits and sidesteps" get Kemisetso Baloyi's adrenaline pumping When Kemisetso Baloyi of Delta Drone TuksWomensRugby 7s, walks down a street, few would guess that rugby is her game and that she will represent South Africa at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games at the end...
Posted on May 25, 2022
Vodacom Bulls rugby defence coach Joey Mongalo has added another string to his bow after graduating from UP with an MCom in Industrial Psychology.
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