Posted on February 16, 2022
The 20-year-old, Bridget Theunissen of TuksTriathlon, is starting to make a habit of finishing every tournament on the podium. On Sunday, 13 February, she was second winning a silver medal with a time of 1:08:34 in the elite women’s category at the 2022 Africa Triathlon Cup - Maselspoort in...
Posted on February 15, 2022
#TuksRugby: Tuks fall out against Maties in their first 2022 Varsity Cup encounter The one given in Varsity Cup is that every team will have that one bad game over nine weeks, in which things go wrong. Hopefully, Tuks's defeat against Maties on Monday, was that game.
Posted on February 14, 2022
TuksRugby: Tuks vs Maties Varsity Cup encounter is always about pride and passion Every time, Tuks plays Maties in a Varsity Cup clash, the one sure thing is that it will be a humdinger. Monday will be no exception. There is always more at stake than a mere victory for the players. Pride...
Posted on February 13, 2022
#TuksCanoe: Matt Millward could be the first Tuks canoeist to “podium” in the Dusi Marathon This week, the 19-year old Matt Millward could do what no other Tuks student-athlete ever did, and that is to finish on the podium on day three of the My Life Dusi Canoe Marathon...
Posted on February 04, 2022
#TuksRowing: Hyacinths pose a significant challenge to South African rowers The biggest challenge South African rowers face daily is not to get boats to be faster on the water - it is overcoming Roodeplaatdam's water hyacinths. The plants might just be why South Africa will not win medals...
Posted on January 29, 2022
#TuksHockey: Inky Zondi is confident that the SA women's national field hockey team can be better Inky Zondi got a simplified vision when it comes to coaching hockey. All that matters is to get every player to be at their best every time they play.
Posted on January 22, 2022
#TuksAthletics: Wayne Snyman sets a new men’s race walk national record at the 2022 ASA 35km Race Walking Champs If his body allows for it, Wayne Snyman might just do something that few South African race walkers have ever done before. That is competing in two events at the World...
Posted on January 17, 2022
The Delta Drone TuksWomensRugby 7s team goal for this season is to win a world title. Should Tuks win, they will be the first university women sports team to be crowned world champions. Their challenge is to win the first-ever FISU University World Cup Rugby Sevens tournament that will be...
Posted on January 14, 2022
#TuksTennis: Donald Ramphadi to make “history” at the 2022 Australian Open Donald Ramphadi will be making "sports history" the very first time his racket connects with the ball during Melbourne's Australian Open Wheelchair Tennis Tournament in Melbourne (23-27 January) 2022.
Posted on December 01, 2021
#TuksVolleball: Q&A with Dina Kladis about her love for beach volleyball and why she is an avid reader Dina Kladis is a coach of the women’s team at the TuksVolleyball. In 2017, she guided UP-Tuks to win the 2017 Varsity Beach Volleyball. She currently serves as the head coach...
Posted on November 16, 2021
The 2020 Olympic gold medallist and World Record holder, Tatjana Schoenmaker (now a TuksSport High School matriculant), is the University of Pretoria Sportswoman of the Year. On Monday, 15 November, at the Future Africa Campus, it was also announced that she is the TuksSport Newsmaker of the...
Posted on November 08, 2021
What she started doing in anger became a passion. Abueng Sekgwelea is now the Secretary-General of the South African Taekwondo Federation. If she can have her way, every young girl should consider taking up the sport. Sekgwelea takes up her story herself.
Posted on November 03, 2021
#TuksWomensRugby: Janse van Rensburg cannot wait to score for the Springbok Women again ahead of their 2021 November Series in Europe
Posted on October 29, 2021
#TuksFootball: “We fight together, win together and lose together.” says Nhlanhla Mabaso after their Varsity Football semi-final defeat The TuksFootball team might be down and out for the moment after losing 2-1 last night to Kovsies in the Varsity Football tournament semi-final,...
Posted on October 28, 2021
#TuksHockey: Tokyo 2020 Olympian, Onthatile Zulu, with a final shoot for Tuks women’s team to win the USSA Hockey Championships title To win any title in any sport is considered an outstanding achievement; to win twice on the same day in the same sport is impressive. The TuksHockey teams...
Posted on October 27, 2021
#TuksFootball: Tuks clash against their rivalry, TUT, in the opening match of the 2021 Women’s Varsity Football in Pretoria If Tuks women's football team can have one wish come true when they play TUT in their first Varsity encounter on Wednesday, it will be that no one gets injured....
Posted on October 25, 2021
#TuksTennis: Tuks win the overall title at the 2021 FASU Tennis Slam Championships in Kampala, Uganda That is one way to describe the final day of the recent 2021 FASU Tennis Slam Championships in Kampala, Uganda. Overall, Tuks, under the headship of Blaise Izungu, finished first place and...
Posted on October 20, 2021
TuksNetball Head of Programme & Head Coach, Jenny van Dyk, is the coach with the "Midas touch". The results are proving. Since August, the teams coached by her won four of the five national tournaments they contested. The climax was on Sunday when the Jaguars won the 2021 Telkom Netball...
Posted on October 14, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Come 2022, Werner Prinsloo wants Akani Simbine to be consistent when he races Next year, consistency and not medals will be the main focus when South Africa's fastest man, Akani Simbine, lines up to race the 100 metres. Some might ask why. The Tuks based sprinter has, after...
Posted on October 12, 2021
The Gauteng Jaguars, under the headship of Jenny van Dyk (Head of Programme & Head Coach at TuksNetball), have fine-tuned winning games into art in the 2021 Telkom Netball League. The team won their first nine games on the trot scoring 463 goals and conceding 310. It means, the Jaguars...
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