Tuks teams dominate USSA tournaments
“Veni, Vidi, Vici” is an excellent way to describe the heroics of the various Tuks sports teams who competed in the recent USSA Tournaments.
Tuks indeed came, saw, and conquered on land and in and on the water.
Tuks’s netball has beaten Kovsies 37-35 in the final. The men’s A-rowing team won the Boat Race for the 12th consecutive time, the women’s A-crew was victorious for a fifth time, while Tuks’s swimming team also won – they have been USSA champions since 2016. Helena Coetzee is the women’s squash champion.
Tuks women’s basketball team lost in the final.
It won’t be wrong to say that Tuks’s Jenny van Dyk is a coach who has the “Midas touch”. She has somehow perfected the art of getting teams to be at their best when it matters.
Given that the Varsity Tournament did not quite play out as she might have hoped. But in all fairness, Tuks netball is in a building phase. The team lacked game time at the start of the Varsity Tournament. It led to Tuks losing three games. Still, they managed to finish third overall.
Afterward, some criticized Van Dyk, saying that she lacked imagination and the teams she coached were playing predictable netball. She got to prove everyone wrong.
The core of the Tuks team went on to play the first leg of the Telkom National Netball League as the Jaguars. They won all their games. During last week’s USSA Tournament, Tuks was again unbeaten. It will be interesting to see what will happen during the second leg of the Telkom League.
Tuks’s swimming team was dominant at the USSA Gala held at Tuks. They won the men’s and women’s competitions as well as overall. It might be the first time that one university managed to be victorious in every relay.
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