#TuksSwimming: Tatjana Schoenmaker wins big at the 2021 South African National Aquatic Championships

Posted on April 13, 2021

Tatjana Schoenmaker can, for now at least, claim to be the world's fastest female 200m breaststroke swimmer after yet again setting a new African record winning in 2:20.17 at the South African National Aquatic Champs in Port Elizabeth. She also staged a new African and South African record time...

#TuksSportHigh: ALUMNI PROFILE - Tlotliso Gift Leotlela

Posted on March 26, 2021

It is often said third time lucky, but the 2016 Olympian sprinter, Tlotliso Gift Leotlela, hopes that his fourth comeback will be the one he gets to fulfil his true potential.

#TuksSport: Q&A interview with student head coach, Blaise Izungu and his appreciation message to TuksTennis

Posted on March 23, 2021

Blaise Izungu is a Student Head Coach & Assistant Academy Coach at TuksTennis. From 2014 to 2016, he served as an Assessor for the USSA Tennis Executive Committee and member of the USSA National Team Selection Panel. At the beginning of 2020, he was appointed Tournament Director of USSA...

#TuksSport: TuksSport and Mamelodi Sundowns form a partnership to scientifically enhance the game of football

Posted on March 08, 2021

The University of Pretoria (UP) with its Department of Sport (TuksSport) and Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club today announced a ground-breaking partnership that seeks to vastly enhance the game of football and the development of it through science, technology and scientific research.

#TuksSwimming: Tatjana Schoenmaker sets a new African record of 1:05.89 in Stellenbosch

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...

#TuksSportHighSchool: Class of 2020 achieves a 98.2% matric pass rate

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.

#TuksAthletics: SA men’s 4x100m relay team aims to win a medal at the 2021 World Athletics Relays in Poland

Posted on February 22, 2021

South Africa's 4x100m relay athletes are, for certain, one team with one goal. It became abundantly clear during their first training camp on Saturday at the Bestmed TuksAthletics Stadium.

#TuksSportHighSchool: Athletics Foundation Trust - a major partner of TuksAtheltics Academy at TuksSport High School

Posted on February 11, 2021

Eight years ago, the Athletics Foundation Trust's (AFT) decision-makers set about creating a unique youth development programme to make a real difference in South Africa through education and athletics. Hardly a year has passed since 2014 in which one or more of the Trust's sponsored athletes...