Posted on June 19, 2024
A trailblazer in sports is defined as someone who does a particular thing before anyone else does. Lynette Whelpton, a Master's student in Advanced Data Analytics, is a trailblazer. Why, may you ask? Not many Tuks athletes can boast of being one of the first ever to medal in a new sport but...
Posted on June 17, 2024
When Charné Swart lines up to race the 800 metres, the one sure thing is that she could be faster than the last time she ran. This past weekend, during a league meeting at Pilditch Stadium in Pretoria West, the Tuks medical student won the 800 metres in a time of 2:00.34. It is the fourth...
Posted on June 12, 2024
"Let me have the ball, and I will give you speed" is the promise Anele Mgwazela made to her teammates before the kick-off of the 2024 FISU World University Championships Rugby Sevens in France. The Tuks student-athlete kept her word. She was involved in scoring tries against their group opponents...
Posted on June 11, 2024
Hockey is the one thing that is guaranteed to get the Lourens siblings, Luke and Elne's adrenaline pumping. For them, something is to be said about being on the ball with a stick in hand, trying to outsmart opponents. There would be no better time to do so than next month during the USSA...
Posted on June 10, 2024
Don't miss it because if you do, you will lose. That is the simple principle when competing in trapshooting, but it is easier said than done. Next month, Steyn will compete at the 15th ICTSF World DTL Championships. This festival of DTL shooting will include the European DTL, Home International,...
Posted on June 07, 2024
In 2017, the British rock band 10cc was singing about how they don't like cricket but love it; this sums up how the Dewar brothers, Matt and Alex, feel about hockey at Tuks. A sixth-year MBChB student at UP-Tuks, Matt says playing hockey is a way for him to take a break from academics. Alex...
Posted on June 05, 2024
The first time Snamile Mthembu watched a cricket game on television, she thought it was one of the most boring sports. Everything changed the day it was Mthembu who made desperate dives to stop the ball from going over the ropes. Who, with the bat in hand, is scoring runs? Or as a bowler is...
Posted on June 03, 2024
Edmund du Plessis is pushing to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in France. This season, during the South African Senior Track & Field Championships in Pietermaritzburg, he won the 800m running at 1:44.92. It is the second consecutive time that he has won the national senior title. A...
Posted on May 31, 2024
Tlisane Motaung is succeeding. In ten days, AmaTuks will start to battle it out to play in the PSL promotion playoffs. It is the second time in three years that the team will do so. In the 2021/2022 season, Tuks lost in the final against Swallows. Since Motaung took the reigns as AmaTuks head...
Posted on May 30, 2024
The Gauteng Jaguars can claim a unique sports record, which is to have played in every final of the National Netball League. It is difficult to think of another South African team in any sport that can boast of having played ten consecutive finals. The Jaguars have been victorious on six...
Posted on May 29, 2024
If someone had asked Tracey Mthunzi at the start of last year whether she thinks she would ever captain a national rugby team, her answer would have been no. But things changed. The former TuksNetball player is off to France to captain the South African women's student team at the 2024 FISU Rugby...
Posted on May 27, 2024
The South African hopeful Olympian combination John Smith and Chris Baxter missed out by 0.11 seconds on medalling during the 2024 World Cup Rowing II in Lucerne, Switzerland. The men's pair combination based at Tuks finished fourth. With 500 metres to go, they were still in third place. The...
Posted on May 23, 2024
It is said cometh the hour, cometh the man, but at TuksCricket, it is more a case of cometh the hour, cometh the captain. TuksCricket Men had a brilliant season in which winning has been finetuned to an art form. Definite highlights were winning the USSA Cricket Tournament in December and the CSA...
Posted on May 20, 2024
As a rule, the long jumper, Jovan van Vuuren, does not like to make a promise he can't keep, but after his inclusion in the South African team for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, he stated that he is not going to Paris to take "selfies". "It has always been my dream to compete at the...
Posted on May 16, 2024
Tuks athletes have been carrying the flag for South Africa since 2012 at the Olympic Games, winning nine medals (4 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze) out of 19. Playing around with numbers equates to Tuks winning 47.36% of South Africa's Olympic medals at the last three Olympic Games. This trend is...
Posted on May 06, 2024
TuksHockey players were instrumental in getting Northerns to win the 2024 Under-21 Interprovincial tournament in Cape Town. This past weekend, Northerns beat Western Province 3-2 in the final to win the title. UP-Tuks student-athlete, Calvin Davis captained the team and was also named Player...
Posted on May 01, 2024
Early this week, Charné Swart established herself as one of South Africa's best female 800-metre athletes by running 2:00.71, during the Cape Milers Club/Endurocad WA Challenge Meeting in Cape Town. The Tuks student-athlete is now one of the six fastest South African female athletes in the 800...
Posted on April 26, 2024
In the 2024 FNB Varsity Shield final, the TuksRugby rugby team defeated Varsity College 95-21 on Friday, April 26, setting new records. The Varsity Shield final saw the most tries in history, with the Tuks scoring 15 on their home pitch. The 95 points are also in this category. Additionally, Tuks...
Posted on April 25, 2024
Cayno February promised himself that he would never be ordinary when playing rugby. He certainly is not when playing for Tuks in the 2024 FNB Varsity Shield competition. During the 80 minutes of play, you will see the lean forward ranking high in the lineouts to win the ball or running with the...
Posted on April 24, 2024
Two University of Pretoria medical students, Edmund du Plessis proved by winning the men’s 800m final at the 2024 ASA Senior Track & Field National Championships in Pietermaritzburg, that he is ready to race against the world's best. Charné Swart won the women's 800m final in 2:01.81...
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