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Maties excel at USSA championships across the country
Maties Sport ended a successful University Sport of South Africa (USSA) campaign, with significant achievements in all of the participating sporting codes. The Maroon Machine took home gold in the A Section of women’s water polo and silver in women’s basketball and men’s cricket. While adding multiple bronze for tennis, men’s water polo, doubles in…
Read MoreMaties Sport teams gear up to play in Summer USSA Championships
The Maroon Machine are busy with final preparations ahead of the University Sport South Africa (USSA) games, scheduled to take place during 2-16 December across the country. This year’s summer games come with nine sporting codes competing including basketball, table tennis, and sailing in Cape Town; cricket and golf in Bloemfontein; football in Kimberley; chess…
Read MoreMaties Chess Player Makes International Debut
Stellenbosch University second-year international studies student Simamnkele Hemeni has been named in the University Sport South Africa (USSA) Chess team for the FISU Mind Games World University Championships, which will take place from 25-27 June in Uganda, Entebbe. Born and raised in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch, 21-year-old Simamnkele played chess since he was a young boy in…
Read MoreMaties Sport aims to end the sporting year on a high note
Maties Sport is looking to continue its winning streak at the upcoming University Sport South Africa (USSA) games, set to take place in the first two weeks of December across the country. The annual summer games will feature various sporting codes, including Cricket, Football, and Sailing, which will be hosted in Cape Town; Tennis and…
Read MoreUSSA Chess Champ ready to take on FISU Games later this year
German-born but raised in the Southern suburbs of Cape Town, top Maties Chess Club player, Nico Martin has been one of the clubs’ rising stars who is set to represent country and university at the upcoming FISU Games in Belgium later this year. Martin the elder of three brothers was born in Munich and when…
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