Posted on April 01, 2019
Training for the Absa Cape Epic entails spending hours on dirt tracks pushing yourself to the limits. Most avid mountain bikers will probably agree with this statement and will have stories to tell as to where and how they did their training. There are always the exceptions though. The...
Posted on March 27, 2019
“It is not about how many times you fall down, but how many times you get back up.” The Tuks alumni, Dr Gustav Joyce, got to experience the true meaning of what the late USA president, Abraham Lincoln, meant when he uttered his famous words. However, it was not through choice.
Posted on March 26, 2019
UP-Tuks can fight back is the one thing that became abundantly clear during last night’s Varsity Cup encounter when the home team ended up playing to a 26-all draw against Ikeys.
Posted on March 25, 2019
With absolute clinical precision, Assupol TuksCricket assured over the weekend that they would get the opportunity to defend their title during the National Club Cricket Championships which the University of Pretoria is hosting in April.
Posted on March 20, 2019
Sinesipho Dambile continued the TuksSport High School’s proud legacy of speedy exploits on the track over the weekend when he won the 200m during the Gauteng North Championships at Tuks in 20.43s.
Posted on March 19, 2019
UP-Tuks achieved the second of their Varsity Cup goals in Potchefstroom last night when they beat North West 28-0.
Posted on March 14, 2019
2018 was the year that the University of Pretoria’s TuksSport teams lifted the standard of university sport to an entirely new level, winning four of the Varsity Sports competitions, in the process ensuring Tuks’s dominance as the overall champions for the second consecutive year.
Posted on March 13, 2019
Tuks’s athletes will have to take the Olympic motto of faster, higher and stronger to heart on Friday in Potchefstroom if they want to have any chance of defending the Varsity Athletics title.
Posted on March 12, 2019
UP-Tuks made sure they are still on track to secure a home semi-final in the Varsity Cup Tournament by beating Shimlas 27-14 last night in Bloemfontein.
Posted on March 11, 2019
It turned out to be third time lucky for Reinhard Pelser on Saturday when he won eventually got to win the men’s singles final during the TuksTennis Student Tournament.
Posted on March 06, 2019
A proud era in TuksCricket came to an end when Martin Slabbert captained the “Weekend Warriors” for the very last time in a game against Defence.
Posted on March 05, 2019
Impressive is an excellent way to describe UP-Tuks’ 70-12 drubbing of UWC last night in their Varsity Cup encounter in Bellville.
Posted on March 05, 2019
When beach tennis is mentioned, many would immediately think of people having fun hitting a ball around in sea, sand and sunny conditions.
Posted on February 14, 2019
Sport and living an active lifestyle are two things that Professor Tawana Kupe, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, feels quite strongly about.
Posted on February 13, 2019
It is still early days but judging by how UP-Tuks dominated the second half of their Varsity Cup-encounter against the team of UJ it seems as if they are hell-bent on restoring the university’s honour on the rugby field.
Posted on February 13, 2019
Calista Pake, a national player and coach at Tuks, describes underwater hockey as a “breathtaking sport”.
Posted on February 11, 2019
It will stand the UP-Tuks players to good stead this afternoon when they face off to UJ in their second Varsity Cup-encounter to be aware of the home team’s X-factor.
Posted on February 11, 2019
Different jersey, a different country not that it really mattered as the Delta Drone UP-TuksWomensRugby7's captain, Libbie Janse van Rensburg, just continued doing what she does best and that is to score tries.
Posted on February 11, 2019
The Tuks wrestlers gave as good as they got over the weekend during the South African Trials in Secunda with eight wrestlers being victorious.
Posted on February 11, 2019
Andries Nigrini might have achieved something over the weekend during the South African Road Cycling Championships in Pretoria what very few other Tuks male cyclists had managed to do, and that is to medal.
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