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…
Losing two games in a row is certainly different from how the defending Varsity Cup champions, Tuks, hoped to kick off their 2023 campaign. As things stand, Tuks is bottom of the log with only one bonus point to their name. Northwest and Wits are the joined log leaders with 10 points after two games….
Losing by one point to Shimlas is undoubtedly not how Tuks would have liked to start their defence of the Varsity Cup title, but still, there are some positives they can take from the game. The one thing that became clear last night is that this Tuks team has guts. They never give up. Only…
To tackle, dummy, and score tries on a rugby field is nothing new to Tuks’s female students. They have been doing so for years and are pretty good at it. Delta Drone Tuks Sevens team has won numerous international tournaments, was crowned African Student Champions and won the inaugural Varsity Sevens Tournament. Last year there…
Springbok Women and Springbok Women’s Sevens star Nadine Roos will join Nagato Blue Angels in Japan on a six month contract in January 2023. Roos, the 2022 MyPlayers Women’s Player of the Year and nominee for the Springbok Women’s Player of the Year award, is the first local player to sign for a Japanese club…
Tuks’s rugby team could rewrite the Varsity Cup Tournament records books should they be victorious in the final in April. It would be the third consecutive time Tuks will claim the title. Only Maties (2008-2010) has been able to do so. It would be Tuks’s sixth title. As things stand, Tuks and Maties have both…
For years, Marlize de Bruin prepared herself, physically and mentally, to represent South Africa in the World Cup in Cape Town – after all, the B.Ed. honours graduate from the University of Pretoria ticked all the right boxes to fulfil her dream of playing for her country at the highest level of them all. The…
Played two, won two is, for the moment, how Tuks’s Young Guns Varsity Cup report card reads. In their first game, the youngsters “out survived” Ikeys in Cape Town’s windy conditions to win 32-14. On Monday, on their home turf, Tuks ran amok, beating Shimlas 55-12. An impressive statistic is scoring 13 tries in two…
