Posted on March 03, 2021
Tatjana Schoenmaker showed that qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be a breeze when she set a new African record during Swim South Africa’s Evaluation Camp Gala in Stellenbosch. The Tuks based swimmer won the 100m-breaststroke in a record time of 1:05.89 two weeks ago in...
Posted on February 23, 2021
TuksSport High School Class of 2020’ has achieved a 98.2% matric pass rate. It is the first time the school reaches an 89% bachelor pass rate. In total, the learners achieved 73 distinctions.
Posted on February 06, 2021
April is the "D-day" month for all South African swimmers who hope to qualify to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games or the World Student Games, but things have hit a hitch. It is not sure in which pool they are going to dive in to. The National Championships and Olympic Trials were supposed to...
Posted on January 29, 2021
Many years ago, a young boy in Ladysmith loved nothing more than to do all kinds of sports and dive into swimming pools. Like many youngsters, he had hoped to become one of the best. When he realised early on it would not happen, he did not get discouraged. Through his participation, he had...
Posted on November 04, 2020
First down and out and now a South African champion that pretty much sums up the reversal in Danté Nortje's swimming fortunes.
Posted on October 27, 2020
Tuks teammates produce two standout swims at SA short-course championships.
Posted on October 27, 2020
Tatjana Schoenmaker's hobby seems to be setting new breaststroke records.
Posted on October 20, 2020
If the coaches at TuksSwimming can have their way, every talented youngster in Pretoria would have a fair opportunity to fulfil their dreams and maybe even compete at the highest level.
Posted on October 15, 2020
The football legend Cristiano Ronaldo said, "If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of".
Posted on October 09, 2020
Andrew Ross knows how to swing a golf club, can hold a tune, but it is in the swimming pool he hopes to make it big.
Posted on September 26, 2020
Tatjana Schoenmaker (TuksSwimming) surprised herself yesterday during the trials for the South African Shortcourse Championships by setting an Africa as well as a new national record in the 200m breaststroke.
Posted on July 28, 2020
'Swimming is where wet dreams become a reality' - This bumper sticker describes precisely what Tuks's Mahan brothers, Owethu and Tumelo, are about. Their dream is to be world-beaters in swimming in a few years from now.
Posted on July 22, 2020
Massive! It is the word Rocco Meiring uses when asked as to the challenge that awaits Tatjana Schoenmaker and Kaylene Corbett to be at their best for next year's Tokyo Olympic Games.
Posted on July 07, 2020
Ruan Ras believes it is not the will to win that makes you a champion; it is refusing to fail that does.
Posted on June 10, 2020
Duné Coetzee has not lost a 200m-butterfly race in South Africa since 2017, but she is not fooled by her performances; the Tuks swimmer knows she needs to be faster.
Posted on June 02, 2020
The 10 weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown have helped Kaylene Corbett a hopeful Olympian in the making to learn how to live the moment.
Posted on May 20, 2020
South Africa's top swimmers are in dire need for water not to drink, but so they can resume their training for next year's Olympic Games.
Posted on April 20, 2020
Tuks's Tatjana Schoenmaker has not been idle in the three weeks she has been building up the courage to take that a heroic comeback plunge in what certainly is going to be an icy experience
Posted on March 25, 2020
Relieved as well as saddened is how the World Swimming Championship silver medallist Tatjana Schoenmaker feels about the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games to next year.
Posted on March 09, 2020
Two seconds faster is the challenge that awaits the World Championship silver medallist Tatjana Schoenmaker when she competes in the 200m-breaststroke during the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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