Posted on June 28, 2024
Predicting a sports tournament's outcome is looking for trouble, as there is a real chance of getting it wrong. But there are exceptions. Especially if the prediction is made by someone guaranteed to be amid the action every minute of every game. UP-Tuks student-athlete and TuksNetball...
Posted on June 26, 2024
Twelve years ago, when John Smith, a member of the "Oarsome Foursome," won a gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Chris Baxter hardly noticed the historic achievement in South African sports. Rowing was not his thing when at primary school, but as it is said, things do change. For...
Posted on June 25, 2024
When Wian Roux lines up on 29 July at the Paris 2024 Olympics in France to shoot his first arrow at the bullseye, the numbers three, eight, and 12 will hold special significance. It will be the first time in 12 years that a South African archer competes at the Olympic Games. The Tuks archer is...
Posted on June 24, 2024
"Quest successful" was the WhatsApp message Edmund du Plessis sent out when he qualified in the 800 metres to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in France. The UP-Tuks MBChB student finished third, running a time of 1:44.49 in Madrid. The Olympic qualifying standard is 1:44.70. Belgium's...
Posted on June 21, 2024
As a netball player, Erin Burger can genuinely claim to have been there and done that and got the t-shirt to prove it. She is the first to reach a milestone mark of 100 caps for the SPAR Proteas while having called it a day on her international career with 125 games for the national team. The...
Posted on June 19, 2024
A trailblazer in sports is defined as someone who does a particular thing before anyone else does. Lynette Whelpton, a Master's student in Advanced Data Analytics, is a trailblazer. Why, may you ask? Not many Tuks athletes can boast of being one of the first ever to medal in a new sport but...
Posted on June 17, 2024
When Charné Swart lines up to race the 800 metres, the one sure thing is that she could be faster than the last time she ran. This past weekend, during a league meeting at Pilditch Stadium in Pretoria West, the Tuks medical student won the 800 metres in a time of 2:00.34. It is the fourth...
Posted on June 12, 2024
"Let me have the ball, and I will give you speed" is the promise Anele Mgwazela made to her teammates before the kick-off of the 2024 FISU World University Championships Rugby Sevens in France. The Tuks student-athlete kept her word. She was involved in scoring tries against their group opponents...
Posted on June 11, 2024
Hockey is the one thing that is guaranteed to get the Lourens siblings, Luke and Elne's adrenaline pumping. For them, something is to be said about being on the ball with a stick in hand, trying to outsmart opponents. There would be no better time to do so than next month during the USSA...
Posted on June 10, 2024
Don't miss it because if you do, you will lose. That is the simple principle when competing in trapshooting, but it is easier said than done. Next month, Steyn will compete at the 15th ICTSF World DTL Championships. This festival of DTL shooting will include the European DTL, Home International,...
Posted on June 07, 2024
In 2017, the British rock band 10cc was singing about how they don't like cricket but love it; this sums up how the Dewar brothers, Matt and Alex, feel about hockey at Tuks. A sixth-year MBChB student at UP-Tuks, Matt says playing hockey is a way for him to take a break from academics. Alex...
Posted on June 05, 2024
The first time Snamile Mthembu watched a cricket game on television, she thought it was one of the most boring sports. Everything changed the day it was Mthembu who made desperate dives to stop the ball from going over the ropes. Who, with the bat in hand, is scoring runs? Or as a bowler is...
Posted on June 03, 2024
Edmund du Plessis is pushing to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in France. This season, during the South African Senior Track & Field Championships in Pietermaritzburg, he won the 800m running at 1:44.92. It is the second consecutive time that he has won the national senior title. A...
Posted on May 31, 2024
Tlisane Motaung is succeeding. In ten days, AmaTuks will start to battle it out to play in the PSL promotion playoffs. It is the second time in three years that the team will do so. In the 2021/2022 season, Tuks lost in the final against Swallows. Since Motaung took the reigns as AmaTuks head...
Posted on May 30, 2024
The Gauteng Jaguars can claim a unique sports record, which is to have played in every final of the National Netball League. It is difficult to think of another South African team in any sport that can boast of having played ten consecutive finals. The Jaguars have been victorious on six...
Posted on May 29, 2024
If someone had asked Tracey Mthunzi at the start of last year whether she thinks she would ever captain a national rugby team, her answer would have been no. But things changed. The former TuksNetball player is off to France to captain the South African women's student team at the 2024 FISU Rugby...
Posted on May 27, 2024
The South African hopeful Olympian combination John Smith and Chris Baxter missed out by 0.11 seconds on medalling during the 2024 World Cup Rowing II in Lucerne, Switzerland. The men's pair combination based at Tuks finished fourth. With 500 metres to go, they were still in third place. The...
Posted on May 23, 2024
It is said cometh the hour, cometh the man, but at TuksCricket, it is more a case of cometh the hour, cometh the captain. TuksCricket Men had a brilliant season in which winning has been finetuned to an art form. Definite highlights were winning the USSA Cricket Tournament in December and the CSA...
Posted on May 20, 2024
As a rule, the long jumper, Jovan van Vuuren, does not like to make a promise he can't keep, but after his inclusion in the South African team for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, he stated that he is not going to Paris to take "selfies". "It has always been my dream to compete at the...
Posted on May 16, 2024
Tuks athletes have been carrying the flag for South Africa since 2012 at the Olympic Games, winning nine medals (4 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze) out of 19. Playing around with numbers equates to Tuks winning 47.36% of South Africa's Olympic medals at the last three Olympic Games. This trend is...
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