The South African student team’s medal tally rose to six at the World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr last night thanks to the heroics of 21-year-old Pieter Coetzé. The Tuks student won gold and silver in the space of 90 minutes. He won the 50m backstroke in 24.49 seconds and was second in the 100m freestyle…
Years from now, the statistics will show that Tuks’ rugby team has beaten Maties 26-21 in the 2025 USSA Tournament final. It is the first time since 2019 that Tuks has won the USSA Tournament. But numbers don’t always tell the whole story. What, for example, would be the numbers one uses to indicate courage…
Between lectures, training sessions and international swimming competitions, University of Pretoria(UP) students Tumelo (18) and Owethu Mahan (20) have little time to slow down. And now the brothers are making a name for themselves as high-performance swimmers representing South Africa on the international stage. Their journey began at Pretoria’s Lynnwood Ridge Primary School, where they…
Getting to hit the bullseye with a bow and arrow in hand is second nature to Joané Coetzee. It should be no surprise. It is said that becoming a competitive archer requires a combination of physical fitness, mental strength, and the mastery of specific techniques. The Tuks sports science student ticks all the boxes. A…
Any sports journalist knows that one of the biggest mistakes to make is to make predictions in advance about who might win. There is a good reason why it is said that races or matches are not won on paper. But as with everything, there are exceptions. It can now already be said with certainty…
University Sport South Africa (USSA) has announced its final team for the 2025 FISU World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany. The squad, unveiled at a movie-themed event in Pretoria, is poised to be one of South Africa’s most competitive delegations to date. The FISU World University Games, scheduled from July 16-27, 2025, will host over…
It is often said that all good things must end, which did for Danillo von Ludwiger, but only after he fulfilled his last goal as a Tuks volleyball player. Over the weekend, the USSA Beach Volleyball men’s final was an “All Striped Affair” as the Tuks A and B-sides battled it out on the sand….
Proud and happy are the words Dewey Swartbooi used to describe his feelings as his first season as coach of the Tuks’s rugby team came to completion. He is justified to feel this way. With his appointment, Swartbooi was tasked to get Tuks to play Varsity Cup Rugby again. The mission was accomplished when Tuks…
Tuks’s rugby team reset the “record books” by beating Varsity College 95-21 in the Varsity Shield final. The 15 tries scored on their home turf is the most in a Varsity Shield final. So is the 95 points. Tuks is also the first to boast of winning the Shield and Cup Tournaments. Needless to say,…
Chad-Lee Valentine might not be the tallest of players, but what he lacks in size, he makes up with guts and tenacity. When he dons the Tuks number-9 jersey, he is the proverbial general whose aim is to get his team close to the try line so they can score. There is nothing he likes…
