Skip to main content
Cover-scaled

Sport

Maties Sport Appoint Kamaal Sait as New Head Coach of Maties Women’s Football

Maties Sport is excited to announce the appointment of Kamaal Sait as the new head coach of the Maties Women’s Football team. This marks a significant step...

Read more
EOS-R50_1159-scaled-e1758635451525.jpg

Sport

Maties Host USSA Rugby 7’s in Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch University was buzzing this past weekend as Maties played host to the University Sport South Africa (USSA) Rugby 7’s Tournament at home. The...

Read more
Banner-scaled

Sport

Maties Hosts 2025 USSA Swimming Championships

Maties proudly hosted the University Sport South Africa (USSA) Swimming Championships in Stellenbosch, bringing together top student swimmers from across the...

Read more
Header-Maties

Sport

Maties Climber ranks fourth in South Africa.

Maties Climbing’s Jeremy van der Riet has bagged the hardest route in the annual Black Diamond Tradathon – a traditional rock-climbing festival that pits...

Read more
Cover-Gemma-Waterpolo-

Sport

Time to check in with Maties Sport Alumnus: Gemma Haywood

As a student-athlete at Stellenbosch University, you learn how to be independent and take responsibility for your actions.

“As a Matie, I learned very...

Read more
LB4_5428-scaled-e1754638322362.jpg

Sport

Women Rugby players can be tough – with painted nails

Just as male rugby players can be hooligans on the field and gentlemen afterwards, so can women players be aggressive for 80 minutes and then have their...

Read more
DSC09571-1-scaled.jpg

Sport

Nathaly is nurturing Maties Basketball’s ‘clever ladies’

“No regrets, just learnings” is Nathaly September’s motto for living her best life as the Maties Basketball Women’s Coach, as a wife and as a mother.

“It can...

Read more
GAPS-ARICA-COVER-IMAGE-scaled-e1754391612338.jpg

Sport

SU-GAPS Programme focuses on “developing the athletes in our care”

There is no justification for African para-athletes to arrive at international multi-sports events to proudly represent their countries, only to perform...

Read more
KIM-H-AND-S-scaled-e1754036936189.jpg

Sport

Kim Coetzee – 35 000 steps for the love of it!

You may never actually notice her but if there is an event involving Maties Sport – large or small – you can bet that Kim Coetzee is here, there, and...

Read more
Anche-Nortje-e1754036608172.jpg

Sport

Anche says: ‘move it, move it, move it …’

If Maties’ Senior Sports Manager, Anche Nortje, is given an opening, she would have all Stellenbosch University staff engaged in physical wellness – be it...

Read more
Subscribe to Nuus