Posted on October 08, 2022
On Thursday, 6 October 2022, TuksHockey made history when their men's and women’s teams clinched their respective Varsity Hockey titles during the Varsity Sports Festival hosted at the University of Pretoria. In the history of Varsity Sports, it has not happened. The chances that men's...
Posted on October 07, 2022
Points on the "board" are guaranteed when Libbie Janse van Rensburg steps onto the field to play for the Springbok Women. On the field, she is the TuksWomensRugby Administrative Assistant & Programme Coordinator at TuksRugby. In the recent Test Series against Spain, she scored 32 points....
Posted on October 06, 2022
It will take a significant effort from Tuks to win the 2022 Varsity 7s Rugby edition. Since the tournament's inception in 2012, Tuks was only victorious on one occasion. They were crowned champions in 2018. In 2019, Tuks finished third. The TuksRugby 7s head coach, Dabeon Draghoender's...
Posted on October 05, 2022
No second chance is the motivator for the 2022 Varsity Hockey edition at the TuksHockey Astro. The team that loses its first match will play out for third/fourth place. That is why the TuksHockey men’s head coach, Sihle ‘Sigz’ Ntuli, considers the match against Maties as a...
Posted on October 02, 2022
The TuksCricket team, under the captaincy of Jiveshan Pillay, aims to keep a unique tradition going from Monday when they contest in the 2022 Varsity Cricket edition at their home oval. To do so, means Tuks need to play in the final. Pillay considers himself privileged to have captained the...
Posted on September 30, 2022
120 minutes of near-perfect netball is what is required from Tuks to qualify for the semi-finals of the 2022 Varsity Netball edition. Things will come to a boil when the eight teams clash in the tournament's last pool games over the weekend in Bloemfontein. There is a lot at stake. So far,...
Posted on September 26, 2022
Delta Drone TuksWomensRugby 7s coach Riaan van der Merwe wanted to prove that anything is possible with hard work and dedication; and with eight players having played in a Springbok women’s rugby team in the past five months, his team is doing just that.
Posted on September 19, 2022
One thing that matters to the TuksFootball head coach, Maude Khumalo, is teamwork because it makes dream work. "You may have the most incredible number of individual stars, but the team won't amount to anything if they don't play as a team. It is often said that talent wins games, but teamwork...
Posted on September 16, 2022
Leadership is earned, not demanded is Mbalenhle Ntuli's mindset in the 2022 Varsity Netball edition. She has been appointed as the captain of the TuksNetball team for the current competition. In 2019, she was part of the Tuks team that won the Varsity Netball title following their unbeaten run...
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 September 12, 2022
TuksNetball hopes to get going when the going gets tough during the 2022 Varsity Netball tournament but it is not going to be easy. If there is one phrase the Tuks head coach, Jenny van Dyk, dislikes to use, it is that her team is in a rebuilding phase. Unfortunately, for now, it is what it is....
Posted on September 08, 2022
It is funny how perceptions about sports can change. A few years back, Nolwazi Hlabangane thought rugby was a sport where the only goal was to kill your opponent to be in control of the ball. Nowadays, Hlabangane is the one "doing the killing". She is seemingly quite good at it. The Delta...
Posted on September 05, 2022
Marco Giuricich might be a novice in playing Varsity Football, but from a Tuks perspective, he is slowly getting his rhythm and knowing what the tournament was all about. He is the one who scored the winning goal in the dying seconds against TUT in Round 5. It was undoubtedly a significant...
Posted on August 31, 2022
Marlize de Bruin has decided to quit netball to focus on playing sevens rugby. Doing so, she proved ‘change is as good as a holiday'. She will represent the Springbok Women’s Sevens at the 2022 Rugby World Cup in Cape Town. De Bruin got her first taste of international rugby in...
Posted on August 26, 2022
Nelson Mandela once said, "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." These words will stand for the TuksFootball team in good stead next week when they face Wits in Round 7, the last round of the prelim phase. Tuks find themselves with their...
Posted on August 22, 2022
Since 2016, name a South African coach who has athletes medalling at the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, World Athletics Championships and the Commonwealth Games? There is a real chance that very few sports fans will know the answer to this. At the same time, it does not faze Neil Cornelius...
Posted on August 19, 2022
Keep your heads up is definitely the motto used by Tuks players in the 2022 Varsity Football edition. On Thursday, 18 August, Tuks secured a major a two-one Tshwane Derby victory against TUT in Round 5. Courtesy of Tuks goalscorers: Ntokozo Madela and Marco Giuricich. This was the third...
Posted on August 16, 2022
Tuks student, Rimari Sutton, is set to compete at the 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships that will take place from 24 to 28 August in Les Gets, France. 11 years ago, she promised herself that she would never cycle again, at least not competitively. To her, there was no fun to...
Posted on August 11, 2022
When playing the numbers game, it is easy to see that the South African team did well at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in England. In the first seven days, they had won 20 medals, placing them sixth on the medal table. As has become the norm during these Games, Tuks athletes have...
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....
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