UJ football team prepare for must-win battle against UWC
ArchivesUniversity of JohannesburgVarsity Sports September 7, 2017
The University of Johannesburg football team will be looking to break their two-year dry spell against University of the Western Cape when they face them in the seventh round of the Varsity Football tournament on Thursday. Having faced the team four times since 2015, UJ will look to pull... Read more
Maties’ Frankie du Toit off to Australia for MTB World Championships
ArchivesStellenbosch UniversityVarsity Sports September 7, 2017
The recently crowned SA U23 cross-country champion, Maties Cycling’s Frankie du Toit, left for Australia on her 20thbirthday – 2 September – to compete in the UCI MTB World Championships in Cairns. This trip became a reality after she managed to raise all the funds necessary to represent her country internationally. Due... Read more
Race village elevates Varsity mountain bike race
ArchivesVarsity Sports September 6, 2017
A race village with plenty to offer is expected to take the Varsity MTB Challenge to another level when the annual mountain bike race takes place next month. The two-day event in Paarl, which will be held on September 30 and October 1, will have the Nederburg wine farm... Read more
Malesela Choko is in Taiwan representing the SA national football team
ArchivesVaal University of TechnologyVarsity Sports September 1, 2017
Malesela Chokoe, better known as ‘Jomo’ to his teammates, is at this moment representing the South African national football team at the World Student Games in Taipei in Taiwan. The centre back and four-time VUT captain is in his fourth year at the university and is busy doing his in-service... Read more
UWC Ladies FC celebrate Women’s Month in Style
ArchivesUniversity of the Western CapeVarsity Sports August 31, 2017
UWC Ladies Football Club have been celebrating Women’s Month in style, winning most of their games to date – and they’re on course to defend and even add to the four titles they brought home last year. The team has advanced to the quarter finals of the Coke Cup... Read more
The Wits Sport Transformation Fund will support talent and contribute to the national pool of African athletes. Wits University and Wits Sport have launched the Fund in order to enable talent from historically disadvantaged backgrounds to gain access to Wits and soar in sports without financial impediment. The Fund... Read more
VUT tennis pair off to play the world
ArchivesVarsity Sports August 25, 2017
Congratulations to Mahao Matete and Nthabiseng Nqosa for their selection into the USSA (University Sports South Africa) national team to take part at the World University Championships (WUC) in September 2018. The host country has not been announced yet. The WUC are part of the sporting events of the International... Read more
Gwala returns from national SAB league
ArchivesVarsity Sports August 24, 2017
DUT football striker Thembinkosi Gwala has returned from a brilliant successful national tournament that was held in Soweto, Johannesburg in July 2017. The third year Sport Studies Management student from Tshelimnyama in Pinetown was the only student from the DUT’s Boys Football team to be selected to be part... Read more
Udubs athletic star ready to rock and roll
ArchivesAthleticsUniversity of the Western CapeVarsity Sports August 23, 2017
Tamzin Thomas left for Taipei this week, more ready than ever to represent South Africa at the World Student Games, known as the Summer Universiade. The 20-year-old University of the Western Cape (UWC) sprinter had spent July in her first European season at a training camp in Italy, an... Read more
Maties kick off international sporting careers in Canada
ArchivesStellenbosch UniversityVarsity Sports August 22, 2017
Two Stellenbosch University (SU) students and multi-sport athletes have travelled almost halfway across the world to kick off their international sporting careers at the 2017 ITU Multisport World Championship Festival, held from 18-27 August in Penticton, Canada. Catherine Pellow-Jarman (19), a first-year BA Sport Science student from Franschhoek, and... Read more
