Posted on August 21, 2020
Don't go through life without "goals" is the motto Carmen Smith abides by when playing hockey. The same goes for when she studies.
Posted on August 21, 2020
The Adidas-Tuks sprinter, Akani Simbine, will be settling in his starting blocks to race next month in Marseille, France.
Posted on August 19, 2020
The Delta Drone TuksWomensRugby7's team has received an invitation to play the Melrose Sevens Tournament in Scotland next year.
Posted on August 18, 2020
Behind every successful sports team, there is a strong woman. The Assupol TuksCricket team's on-field performances prove it.
Posted on August 17, 2020
Few would ever take note of 334 as a number. It seems insignificant but if Niel Thiart (Bestmed Athletics Club) has his way it might change from Friday when he aims to run nonstop for 48 hours around the Tuks athletics track.
Posted on August 06, 2020
A study on the effects of COVID-19 and other respiratory infections on athletes returning to training and competition is being launched by the Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI) at the University of Pretoria (UP) in association with the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
Posted on August 06, 2020
The past December Curtis Campher was playing cricket for Assupol Tuks fast forward seven months, and his name is linked to the likes of Eion Morgan who captains Engeland's one dayside.
Posted on August 05, 2020
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts – that’s what little girls are made of. The heck with sugar and spice,” said US professional surfer and shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton.
Posted on August 04, 2020
There are not many Tuks athletes who at 15 can boast of having rubbed shoulders with two of the legends of international sport. Kagiso Ledwaba can.
Posted on August 03, 2020
When it comes to TuksRugby Conrad Boshoff can genuinely claim to have been there, done that and got the T-shirt to prove it.
Posted on July 31, 2020
Tuks's 800m-athlete, Rynhardt van Rensburg, will have specific numbers in mind from next year when he challenges the stopwatch.
Posted on July 30, 2020
The Tuks 400m-hurdler, Wenda Nel, is back on the track training after she had recovered from the Covid-19 virus.
Posted on July 29, 2020
The South African and TuksHockey player Peabo Lembethe has decided come what may he will outfox opponents with a stick in hand that is why he left to play in Ireland.
Posted on July 28, 2020
'Swimming is where wet dreams become a reality' - This bumper sticker describes precisely what Tuks's Mahan brothers, Owethu and Tumelo, are about. Their dream is to be world-beaters in swimming in a few years from now.
Posted on July 23, 2020
The South African 400m-hurdles champion, Lindsay Hanekom (Tuks), thought he knew what it is like to experience the ultimate adrenaline rush. Still, when he got to pull the trigger of a rifle on a farm outside Vrede, everything changed.
Posted on July 22, 2020
Massive! It is the word Rocco Meiring uses when asked as to the challenge that awaits Tatjana Schoenmaker and Kaylene Corbett to be at their best for next year's Tokyo Olympic Games.
Posted on July 21, 2020
Should I race this season or should I not is the dilemma the South African 100m-hurdles record-holder Rikenette Steenkamp is currently facing.
Posted on July 20, 2020
"En-garde, pret, allez" are three words that are guaranteed to get Janali van den Berg's adrenaline pumping.
Posted on July 17, 2020
"The man who likes to wear many hats" is an excellent way to describe Tuks footballer Katlego Motlhatsang.
Posted on July 17, 2020
Tuks's athletes are at long last able to do what they love, which is to jump, hurdle, sprint or throw on a synthetic track again.
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