{"id":41794,"date":"2022-12-22T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T08:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-celebrates-staff-excellence-at-the-vice-chancellors-excellence-awards-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T21:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T19:03:29","slug":"a-year-of-sporting-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/a-year-of-sporting-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"A year of sporting excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"41794\" class=\"elementor elementor-41794\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-33d4960 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"33d4960\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c602605\" data-id=\"c602605\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8f6d70 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d8f6d70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a member of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussa.org.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University Student Sports Association<\/a><\/span> (USSA), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\">Sol Plaatje University<\/a><\/span> (SPU) attended\u00a0several sport\u00a0tournaments throughout 2022.\u00a0One of many highlights this year was undoubtedly hosting the USSA Rugby 7s Championship games in September\u00a02022. Our SPU male and female teams may not have made it all the way to the finals, but the event highlighted the sporting excellence we uphold at SPU.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few highlights from the USSA tournaments in 2022 include:<\/p><ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li>The male football team completed and maintained their position in Section A.\u00a0Congratulations to our team manager\u00a0Ms Brenda Mafunisa, who was awarded\u00a0Manager of the Tournament!\u00a0<\/li><li>In table tennis, two team members did exceptionally well. Kagiso Sejamoholo competed in the top eight in male singles, and Keitumetse Moncho\u00a0competed in the top nine in female singles.<\/li><li>Tennis coach\u00a0Nolan Van De Merwe\u00a0was asked to represent USSA during live broadcasting on SABC.<\/li><li>In aerobics, our team wowed the judges. In the team challenges, they won\u00a0gold in Hip Hop Funk and bronze in Step Box. Individually, Nti Motsamai\u00a0won silver, while Nti Motsamai, Katlego Dibeco and Kagisho Kgoele all walked away with bronze medals.<\/li><li>Out of 22 universities, our female chess team ranked sixth in the country. Celima Mundama ranked eight out of 91 players and obtained USSA colours for Chess.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here\u2019s to building on our strong foundation next year and reaching new heights in the sporting arena. See you in 2023!<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gemmie Fire!\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the University Student Sports Association (USSA), Sol Plaatje University (SPU) attended&nbsp;several sport&nbsp;tournaments throughout 2022.&nbsp;One of many highlights this year was undoubtedly hosting the USSA Rugby 7s Championship games in September&nbsp;2022. Our SPU male and female teams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/a-year-of-sporting-excellence\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,67,57],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[185],"class_list":["post-41794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport","category-spu-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48981,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41794\/revisions\/48981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41794"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=41794"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=41794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}