Posted on January 25, 2024
At TuksSport High School the focus is very much on distinctions and how many the top performers achieve from the start of the year, says Principal, Hettie de Villiers.
Posted on October 30, 2023
2023 is the year in which UP-Tuks female athletes stepped up and beat the best. Their heroics led to the Tuks being able to boast of having a world champion, a World Student Games champion, an African Beach Games champion, and various other international medals. Records have also been set, and...
Posted on October 23, 2023
TuksSport High is 21! From humble beginnings to monumental success, TuksSport High School is celebrating 21 years since its founding in 2002.
Posted on September 20, 2023
Tuks swimmers continued to make a big splash over the weekend during the USSA Swimming Championships in Gqeberha, winning overall as well as the men's and women's team competitions. It is the sixth year that TuksSwimming has been victorious. Four of the seven swimmers, namely Cameron Casali, Arno...
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 26, 2023
Tatjana Schoenmaker and Rocco Meiring are the real deal when it comes to performing at their best when it matters most. It was proved yesterday when the Tuks swimmer won silver in the 100-meter breaststroke during the Swimming World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. Schoenmaker has now won 11...
Posted on June 01, 2023
A few years back, Wendy Shongwe promised her dad she would take up football again after she finished matric at TuksSport High School and formed part of the TuksAthletics Academy. She kept her word. In 2021, she was back on the field. It did not take long for her natural talent to come to the...
Posted on March 24, 2023
William Mokgopo can rightfully claim to be one of the trailblazers of South African cycling, proving that riders of colour can cycle and win races. That is why it is exciting that he is now the head coach of the TuksCycling Academy at TuksSport High School. The aim is definitely to coach...
Posted on January 23, 2023
TuksSport High School's matrics of 2022 managed to achieve a 100% pass rate, with Chris-Dian Haasbroek and fellow learner Rivers Williams passing with six distinctions each.
Posted on December 12, 2022
Linda Sikweza joined the Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute - SEMLI at the University of Pretoria in 2020 as a Sport Science Intern. She holds a BA Honours in Sport Science qualification obtained at the University of Johannesburg. Having worked her way up, to date, she is a Junior...
Posted on September 14, 2022
After winning gold at the recent Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in England, Geronay Michaela Whitebooi of TuksJudo, set herself the challenge and that is to be at her best level every time she competes. She has opted not to compete at the upcoming 2022 World Judo Championships in Uzbekistan....
Posted on August 11, 2022
Elzana Joubert joined TuksSport High School 20 years ago. She is a Mathematics teacher. Here, Mrs Joubert tells us more about what Women's Month means to her, the importance of celebrating International Mathematics Day and shares her advice to the upcoming generation of learner-athletes at...
Posted on August 10, 2022
One thing which seemingly never changes in Varsity Football is that there will be a stage when Tuks is against the wall during the tournament. There is that one game they absolutely can't afford to lose because if they do, it is a near certainty that they not be in action in the playoffs....
Posted on August 01, 2022
On Sunday, 31 July, Tatjana Schoenmaker and Kaylene Corbett won gold and bronze medals in the women’s 200m-breaststroke final at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, achieving a historic victory for South African swimming. They are the first two female swimmers to medal in the same...
Posted on July 20, 2022
Bestmed has announced the renewal of their sponsorship of TuksSport, which will see athletes being assisted with tuition and sports and medical services. TuksSport Director and Acting CEO of the High Performance Centre, Steven Ball, always emphasises that no breakthrough in a sport just happens.
Posted on July 01, 2022
A lot can happen in seven days. Ask Geronay Michaela Whitebooi (TuksSport High School matriculant & TuksJudo graduate), and she will tell you she has won her first fight at the recent Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam 2022, which helped improve her international ranking by five positions. The Tuks...
Posted on June 13, 2022
TuksJudo: Breytenbach twins set to make sports history at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in England Brothers or sisters representing South Africa at the Commonwealth Games in the same sports teams are nothing new. Still, when Thomas and Donné Breytenbach (now TuksSport High School...
Posted on June 03, 2022
TuksAthletics: Prudence Sekgodiso will make her Diamond League debut in Rabat The 20-year-old, current TuksAthletics club member, Prudence Sekgodiso (TuksSport High School matriculant & TuksAthletics Academy graduate), has done what no other South African athlete could do this season. That...
Posted on June 01, 2022
Thomas Breytenbach of TuksJudo, is among the Tuks judokas who medalled medals at the recent 2022 African Senior Judo Champs in Algeria
Posted on May 13, 2022
Benjamin Richardson, 18, is the South African Under-20 champion in the 100m and 200m events. During the recent South African Senior Track and Field Championships in Cape Town, he won a bronze medal in the 200 metres.
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