Posted on September 14, 2021
#TuksFootball: Tuks grabs its first victory with a two-one win over Wits in the 2021 Varsity Football tournament Chuffed is the word the head coach, Nicholas Stothard, used to describe his feelings after Tuks had beaten Wits 2-1 in Round 3 of the 2021 Varsity Football tournament. It is...
Posted on September 12, 2021
#TuksFootball: “We now realise there is not such a thing as an easy game in the Varsity Football tournament,” says Nqobile Khumalo Another year, another tournament, but some things seemingly never changes for the TuksFootball team when it comes to the Varsity Football tournament....
Posted on September 09, 2021
#TuksFootball: Blessing Mabasa aims to lead Tuks by example in the 2021 Varsity Football competition A good captain leads by example, is confident but also humble, and knows how to motivate teammates. These were the TuksSport High School matriculant & TuksFootball Academy graduate,...
Posted on September 08, 2021
#TuksFootball: Stothard brothers on a mission for Tuks in the 2021 Varsity Football tournament If you are a football coach and want your team to score more goals, it might be good to convince your brother to take to the field. The Tuks head coach, Nicholas Stothard, did ask his brother,...
Posted on September 06, 2021
#TuksNetball: Marlize de Bruin looks forward to the challenge of captaining the Jaguars in the 2021 Telkom Netball League Marlize de Bruin seems to be a ‘jack of all trades and master of all’, when it comes to netball. Five days ago, she was sitting on the sidelines as Tuks...
Posted on September 05, 2021
#TuksNetball: “Naturally, I want the teams I coach to win every time they play,” says Jenny van Dyk ahead of the 2021 Telkom Netball League Can the Jaguars be stopped? This will be the big question from Sunday when the first leg of the 2021 Telkom Netball League is played at the...
Posted on September 03, 2021
#TuksFootball: Tuks vs TUT is the Match of the Day for Round 1 of the 2021 Varsity Football in Pretoria TuksFootball will kick off their 2021 Varsity Football campaign playing against TUT at Tuks Stadium on Wednesday, 8 September. The clash is famously known as the ‘Tshwane...
Posted on September 03, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Ntando Mahlangu wins his second gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games in Japan Ntando Mahlangu streaked to a second gold medal this afternoon, winning the men’s T61 200 metres in 23.59s at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. He timed his acceleration to perfection. With 50...
Posted on August 29, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Daniel Du Plessis hopes to inspire during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in Japan Daniel du Plessis made a decision eight years ago to amputate his legs. It changed his life as he will be making his Paralympic debut when he lines up to race the men's 100m T64 in Tokyo.
Posted on August 28, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Ntando Mahlangu coached from Pretoria to set a world record at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan When Ntando Mahlangu jumped 7.17 metres, setting a world record to win gold in the men’s T63 long jump at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan there, was a moment of...
Posted on August 26, 2021
#TuksSwimming: 17 years of perseverance is the reason why Hendrik van der Merwe is competing at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in Japan Rumour has it that Hendrik van der Merwe used to pack quite a mean punch in his younger days at school, but he was not a fighter at heart, so he took up...
Posted on August 25, 2021
#TuksArchery: Shaun Anderson wants to honour dad’s memory at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan When Shaun Anderson takes aim on Friday during the Paralympic archery competition, he will do so in honour of his dad, who passed away due to contracting the COVID-19 virus. "My dad...
Posted on August 24, 2021
#TuksTennis: Kgothatso Montjane will be playing to make South Africa proud at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in Japan Being a trailblazer in women's wheelchair tennis has become second nature to Kgothatso Montjane of TuksTennis, who is part of the Tennis South Africa (TSA) high-performance...
Posted on August 24, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Ntando Mahlangu sights set on winning gold in the men’s 200m T61 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan Not that he ever would, but Ntando Mahlangu can claim he had achieved more in 19 years than most people would in a lifetime. When only 14, he won a silver medal...
Posted on August 23, 2021
#TuksArchery: Philip Coates-Palgrave aims to switch off his “brain” at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan 26 years ago, Philip Coates-Palgrave lost his left leg after being severely mauled by a hippo in the Zambezi River.
Posted on August 20, 2021
TuksNetball, from next week in Stellenbosch, will try and defend the Varsity Netball title they won in 2019. Danielle van Zyl is one of the players Tuks will undoubtedly rely on to impact during their games. She was, after all, part of the 2019 winning team. Her heroics led to her being...
Posted on August 17, 2021
The Tuks U-20 netball team is the 2021 Gauteng Twizza Netball Club Championships title winners beating Harlequins 31-24 in the final over the weekend in Johannesburg. It was sweet revenge for Tuks. They lost against Harlequins in the Gauteng North-final of the Championships.
Posted on August 16, 2021
The Tuks sprinter, Benjamin Richardson (who is a TuksSport High School learner-athlete part of the TuksAthletics Academy), will race to win from Wednesday when he competes in the 100 metres at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. "The goal is always gold. It does not...
Posted on August 13, 2021
#TuksNetball: Jenny van Dyk has done her homework ahead of the upcoming 2021 Varsity Netball competition in Stellenbosch It is often said that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Therefore, it will stand TuksNetball’s players in good stead if they can remember this....
Posted on August 03, 2021
South Africa's Olympic champion and world record holder, Tatjana Schoenmaker, can swim faster in the 200m-breaststroke. Rocco Meiring is the man who is making the prediction, and he should know as he is the coach. The Tuks based swimmer amazed everyone when she won the 200m-breaststroke...
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