Posted on February 27, 2022
TuksRugby: John-Laffnie de Jager wants his players to “serve aces” in the 2022 Varsity Cup tournament Finding enough hours is a challenge the mental coach of the TuksRugby, John-Laffnie de Jager, faces daily, but he will never complain. What matters to him is making a difference in...
Posted on February 22, 2022
TuksRugby: Tuks notch up the first 2022 FNB Varsity Cup win beating Madibaz in Gqeberha It certainly was not one of Tuks's best performances, but it does not matter now. What mattered was beating the Madibaz in Round 2 of the 2022 FNB Varsity Cup tournament on Monday, 21 February and getting a...
Posted on February 21, 2022
TuksSwimming: Stephanie Houtman loves the challenge of long distance swimming There is a long-standing joke every diehard marathoner must have heard at least once, and that is why run when you can drive. In the same vein, the joke to open-water swimmers should be why swim when there are...
Posted on February 18, 2022
TuksWrestling: Tuks wrestler not one to shy away from a challenge Like a moth can't resist circling a burning candle, so can the 19-year-old and Tuks wrestler, Arno van Zijl, cannot resist a real challenge. His aim is to compete at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Junior...
Posted on February 17, 2022
Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg is the South African road cycling champion after winning the 169km race on Sunday at Graskop. Willie Smit was the second rider to race across the finish line. Andries Nigrini, a current Tuks student, finished 12th and was the seventh-fastest in the 30km individual...
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...
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