Posted on June 06, 2021
To win two fights will be Michaela Whitebooi's challenge from Sunday, 6 June when she competes at the 2021 World Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary. If she does, it is a near done deal that the Tuks judoka will compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Nikola Filipov (TuksJudo head coach)...
Posted on May 05, 2021
The South African men's 4x100m relay team dared to dream full well, knowing they will face obstacles, make mistakes and be criticised, but in the end, trust trumps all. That is why they are world champions. On Sunday, 2 May 2021, Thando Dlodlo, TuksSport High School matriculants &...
Posted on April 17, 2021
21 years. That is how long it has been since a South African female swimmer medalled at an Olympic Games. But this statistic is about to change. Penny Heyns is banking on the Tuks swimmer, Tatjana Schoenmaker, to break the "jinx" in Tokyo. "I am impressed by Tatjana's recent performances....
Posted on April 16, 2021
Benjamin Richardson is tall, genuinely fast but that is not all, the 18-year-old is also a double South African champion. In the past few days, the TuksSport High School learner-athlete won the under-20 men's 100m (10.41s) and 200m races (20.97s). He did so during the South African Track &...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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 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.
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...
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 31, 2021
The South African men's 4x100m relay team will medal at the World Relay Championships in Poland in May and at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Given South Africa's 4x100m-relay team's performance history, it is a bold statement to make. To Danie Cornelius, the national relay team's manager, it is a near...
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 January 22, 2021
Perfect judo is not going to cut it. It is the conclusion Michaela Whitebooi came to in her quest to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games. The Tuks judoka seemingly could do no wrong towards the end of last year. She won three tournaments in Africa on the trot. What excited her was winning gold...
Posted on January 12, 2021
Nicholas Stothard is a UP-Tuks alumni, holding two qualifications - BCom Recreation & Sports Management and BCom Honours Marketing Management. In 2013 and 2014, playing as a goalkeeper, he was part of the Tuks team that won the Varsity Football tournament. Having been more passionate about...
Posted on November 19, 2020
Fundiswa Hlobo is a TuksAthletics Academy Manager at TuksSport. Last year, she served as a Team Leader of the USSA Athletics team at the World University Games in Napoli, Italy.
Posted on November 19, 2020
The Safa Girls Soccer Academy based at Tuks is where talented players become match winners, or so it seems, judging by Banyana Banyana's heroics.
Posted on November 16, 2020
Winning can be addictive. Anyway, so it seems as over the weekend during the Dakar Open Judo Tournament Michaela Whitebooi won gold.
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