Posted on May 21, 2021
TuksRugby head coach, Nico Luus, can be forgiven if thinking, "I love it when a plan comes together" after their seventy-five-nil victory against Madibaz in the FNB Varsity Cup on Sunday, 21 May 2021. "For the first time, the players stuck to the game plan from start to finish. It is not the...
Posted on May 20, 2021
There is no respite for the South African men's four crew that qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. They will be competing in the World Cup II scheduled to take place from 21 to 23 May 2021 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Luckily they don't need to win, at least for now. The only challenge is...
Posted on May 19, 2021
Tuks had a "look at the scoreboard" moment when they beat the UFS Shimlas 42-39 in Round 7 of the 2021 FNB Varsity Cup encounter at Loftus Versfeld on Monday, 17 May. It was definitely not one of Tuks's best performances. At one stage, they were leading 20-0 but then things slowly starting to...
Posted on May 19, 2021
To have a dream of competing at the Olympics takes more than hours and hours of training and significant sacrifices; there is a definite financial aspect to it. Often it is not a lack of talent that ends an athlete's hope. It is money or, to be more precise, a lack of funds. Five South...
Posted on May 17, 2021
The South African men's four crew qualified for the Tokyo Olympics when they won gold with a time of 6:06.11 at the World Rowing Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland on 18 May 2021. With this victory, they ensured that South Africa will have two crews competing at the...
Posted on May 16, 2021
It is easy to think a try is a try, but there are times it is that little bit more special to dive over watching the numbers on the scoreboard change. For Louritz van der Schyff, Sunday, 4 April 2021 was such a special occasion. When he scored Tuks's first try against Wits during the FNB...
Posted on May 16, 2021
taking up sailing. There will be no regrets. It is a promise made by the Commodore of TuksYachting, Damian Muller. He would know. His grandfather got him on a little boat in the middle of a dam when he was 14 years old and told him to find his way to the shore. He did. Since then, he has made...
Posted on May 16, 2021
Kyle Blignaut of Tuks, has qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games with a winning throw of 21.21 metres in the men’s shot-put during the 2021 USSA Athletics Championships in Johannesburg. The "Big Man" is in terrific form. Since the 2021 South African Senior National Championships at Tuks,...
Posted on May 15, 2021
On 15 May 2021, Kyle Blignaut of Tuks, qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games with a winning throw of 21.21 metres in the shot put during the USSA Athletics Championships in Johannesburg.
Posted on May 13, 2021
The men's shot put has become one of the forgotten events in South African athletics, but Jason van Rooyen and Kyle Blignaut's rivalry could change this. In the past two weeks, both athletes have thrown further than 21 metres. Van Rooyen won on 29 April in Potchefstroom with a distance of...
Posted on May 09, 2021
The gold medal the South African men's 4x100m relay team won at the World Relay Championships in Poland is the start of things to come. More SA teams will medal in the future. Athletics South Africa (ASA) relay team manager, Danie Cornelius, who is the Head of Programme at TuksAthletics is the...
Posted on May 07, 2021
Spartak of TuksFootball, is well on their way to qualify for the playoffs of the 2021 SAFA Tshwane Regional League. The team has won nine of their eleven games so far and drew twice. What is impressive is that they scored 22 goals and only conceded six. According to the Tuks head coach,...
Posted on May 06, 2021
The South African paralympic archer Shaun Anderson's hope of competing at the Tokyo Games might have been ended by the Covid Pandemic. Last night he was informed that no South African archers can compete in July in the Czech Republic. It has to do with the Covid travel regulations. The Tuks...
Posted on May 03, 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, Gift Leotlela, Clarence Munyai and Akani Simbine...
Posted on April 28, 2021
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has recently announced a squad of 17 athletes to compete at the upcoming World Athletics Relays in Silesia, Poland on 1-2 May 2021. The selected squad will compete in the men's 4x100m and 4x400m events and the 4x400m mixed relay.
Posted on April 23, 2021
Scoring tries in the FNB Varsity Cup tournament has become second nature to Tuks's Clyde Lewis. This paragraph appeared last year in an article written about Lewis's rugby prowess. A year later, it is still relevant, albeit with a few changes. In 2020, Lewis captained Tuks's Young Guns...
Posted on April 22, 2021
Four years. That is the last time Tuks got the better of Maties in a Varsity Cup encounter. It is a statistic that the "Striped Team" will undoubtedly hope to rectify ahead of the upcoming ‘biggest match of the day’ at Loftus when the two teams clash for the 21st time in the...
Posted on April 22, 2021
Shadine van der Merwe is considered a leading defensive player in netball, but she could have been lost to the game if it was not for the TuksNetball Head of Programme & Head Coach, Jenny van Dyk. A few years back, she was genuinely frustrated. It felt like her netball career was going...
Posted on April 22, 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 22, 2021
#TuksSport: Bestmed Medical Scheme renews commitment to sport development through TuksSport sponsorship for 2021/2022 “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” This famous quote by Vince Lombardi summarises what TuksSport is about....
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