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Eight Tuks water polo players in national team MAXINE TWADDLE Eight water polo athletes from Tuks have been selected for the national women’s water polo squad. From this squad of 28, 13 athletes will represent South Africa at the FINA (international swimming federation) World Championships in Barcelona in July. This competition is the national team’s first step towards qualifying for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Anke Jacobs, Amy Knight and Kaylin Shortt have been chosen to be part of the senior team. Kelly Kirsten, Robyn Macleod, Kim Rosslee and Taylor Webb will form part of the u/20 team. Jacobs told Perdeby that she is proud to have been selected for the national squad. “It’s always been my dream to represent South Africa,” she said. Jacobs said that the members of the Tuks water polo team have been training hard. This determination paid off when so many athletes were chosen to represent the country.
“The girls have worked exceptionally hard, sacrificing their free time to train daily in frigid water,” Jacobs explained. To train for the world championships, the
athletes will practise seven days a week. They will have three swimming practices, three dry-land practices (which focus on strength and cardiovascular fitness) and one time-trial
Tuks rower Lloyd Bemelman came second in the event, just over two seconds behind Hunt. Lawrence Ndlovu, also a Tuks rower and an Olympic gold medalist, came third with a time of 7:28.77 minutes. Tuks came second in the men’s A 4+ event, finishing three seconds behind Andrew Morgan from the Junior National Squad to record a time of 6:58.60 minutes. Ursula Grobler won the women’s A 1× event by six seconds, with Lee-Ann Persse coming
third in a time of 8:21.15 minutes. TuksRowing won the men’s A 2- event and were represented in seven of the eight available starting positions. The men’s 4- team came first, second and fourth in their event. The women’s C 2× team finished second with a time of 4:22.45 minutes, 5.5 seconds behind the winners. Tuks’s women’s A 8+ team won their event, beating second-placed UCT by 23 seconds. Prior to the national championships,
session. To improve her strength and ability in the pool, Jacobs has entered a men’s league. “It’s up to each of us to put in the extra effort,” she explained. Competing on a national level, the Tuks women’s water polo team has had a strong start to the 2013 season. The team finished third at the South African Nationals Currie Cup tournament in Port Elizabeth, where they beat winners Central Gauteng and second-placed KwaZulu-Natal in the group stages. They beat rivals University of Johannesburg to win the Gauteng Summer Cup league. Because water polo is not regarded as a professional sport and the national team has no sponsors, the athletes will have to raise the money required to fund the Barcelona tour themselves. Jacobs estimates that this will cost about R20 000 per athlete, including flights, accommodation and meals. Photo: Lyticia Erasmus
TuksRowing continues to dominate
MAXINE TWADDLE TuksRowing won the 2013 National Rowing Championships held over the weekend of 26-28 April at Roodeplaat Dam in Pretoria. TuksRowing dominated throughout the competition. Lindsey Davis recorded Tuks’s first victory in the weekend’s events when she won the women’s A 2× event with her partner with a time of 8:12.16 minutes. David Hunt won the men’s A 1× in 7:25.05 minutes. Fellow Rowing is one of the oldest sports at the Olympics. It is a technical sport that requires competitors to have physical strength and a high level of fitness. There are two forms of rowing: sweep, where each rower in a team of two, four or eight uses one oar held by both hands, and sculling, where an individual rower or each rower in a team of two or four uses two oars. The boats used in competitive rowing are called shells. These are classified according to how many rowers they can accommodate and whether there is a coxswain in the boat. The coxswain is the rower who sits in the stern of the boat. The coxswain is in charge of steering the boat and coordinating the power output and rhythm of the other rowers. It is a rowing tradition to throw the coxswain into the water if the team wins. In an 8+ boat, each seat is labelled one to eight starting from the stern. This defines the role of the rower in each position. The rowers in positions eight and seven form the stern pair. The eighth rower sits closest to the boat’s stern. Called the stroke, this rower sets the rhythm for the rest
of the rowers. The seventh rower must communicate any changes in rhythm to the rest of the crew. The rowers in positions six, five, four and three form the middle crew. They are the strongest and heaviest rowers. The rowers in positions two and one are called the bow pair. They are responsible for the balance and direction of the boat. The same principle applies to a boat designed for four rowers. There is one coxswain, two members of the middle crew and one bow. Rowers compete in heavyweight or lightweight classes. In competitive rowing, different events are categorised by different codes. An “M” or “W” precedes the code and signifies that the event is a men’s event or a women’s event. A “J” signifies that junior rowers are competing in the event. The code 8+ is used for events requiring teams of eight, including a coxswain, while 4+ is used for events requiring teams of four. 4- is used for events requiring teams of four with no coxswain. L2- refers to a lightweight pair. BM1x refers to a men’s single scull team where all the rowers are under the age of 23 while JW4x refers to an event for junior women’s quad teams.
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TuksRowing had performed well at the Buffalo Regatta in East London. The team won the Grand Challenge title at this event, finishing first in the senior men’s first four’s race. Olympic gold medalists James Thompson and John Smith represented Tuks in the race along with Scott Donaldson and Mike Voerman. Tuks also finished first and second in the senior men’s eight’s race. Images: www.dispatch.co.za and www.up.ac.za
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