Pro Events and Maties Football have formed a partnership that includes a donation for high performance bursaries as well as a sponsorship to advance the Maties Football programme delivery with a focus on Campus Football, league and University Sport South Africa (USSA) national university championships.   Pro Events decided to invest in Maties Football Club,…

Maties Sport’s Dr Nana Adom-Aboagye was recently awarded for her post-doctoral research in sport as being one of the Top 20 post-doctoral fellows at Stellenbosch University (SU) from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies, Professor Sibusiso Moyo.   When asked how she feels about being recognized by the DVC as one of…

I have had the privilege of spending many hours discussing cricket with Gustav, solving all of CSA’s problems, and have also had the opportunity of playing alongside him in our annual 2-day cricket match for many years, so I thought it would only be fitting to highlight his time at Maties Sport with some cricketing…

By Jamie Wyngaardt. Maties Sport has competed in the Western Cape Intervarsity Tournament along with sister universities, University of Western Cape (UWC), University of Cape Town (UCT), and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) for the month of August 2022. The Intervarsity Tournament aims to promote sport tournaments within Western Cape and to give second…

By Cody Hansen Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Maties Esports club was founded in 2017. The club currently has 19 active players and competes in FIFA, Rocket League and Clash Royale – which are the titles played at the USSA Esports championship. “We play in various online tournaments via ACGL, as well as in person or LAN…

By Jamie Wyngaardt   A small town in the Western Cape meant Andrea de Waal didn’t have as many opportunities to play sports as other schools might have.   However, she joined the hockey team at her school as the goalkeeper and dedicated her time to the sport and training, naturally she was an asset…

With only seven months under her belt, Brady Wiseman has already snatched gold at Maties Sport as one of the High-Performance Interns. The recent USSA Hockey tournament hosted by UCT gave Wiseman a better look into the background staff side of the sport. Wiseman graduated with an honour’s degree in Sport Science in 2021 at…

By Maties Sport Media and Communications Unit A number of Maties athletes, both past and present, recently took part in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. The Games took place from 28 July to 8 August and marked the first time a major international sports event was integrated – hosting the paralympic and non-paralympic…