Gauteng Jaguars

Gauteng Jaguars are a South African netball team based at the University of Pretoria. Since 2014, together with Gauteng Golden Fireballs, they have represented Gauteng in the Telkom Netball League. They are the league's most successful team and, as of 2024, have featured in every final. Between 2017 and 2021, Jaguars won five successive titles. In 2023, they won a sixth title. In 2017 and 2018, they also represented Netball South Africa in the Netball New Zealand Super Club.

Gauteng Jaguars

Founded	2014
Based in	University of Pretoria
Regions	Gauteng
Head coach	Rozanne Matthyse
Captain	Jamie Van Wyk
Premierships	6 (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023)
League	Telkom Netball League
Uniform Uniform

History

Brutal Fruit Netball Cup

In 2014, Gauteng Jaguars, together with Free State Crinums, Eastern Cape Aloes, Gauteng Golden Fireballs and North West Flames, became founder members of Division One of the Brutal Fruit Netball Cup.^[1][2][3] Between 2014 and 2016, they played in three successive finals. However, on each occasion they lost to Free State Crinums.^[4][5][6]

Netball New Zealand Super Club

In 2017^[7][8][9] and 2018, Jaguars represented Netball South Africa in the Netball New Zealand Super Club. On the opening day of the 2018 tournament they caused an upset when, with a team featuring Marlize de Bruin, Shadine van der Merwe and Ine-Mare Venter, they defeated Southern Steel, the 2018 ANZ Premiership premiers.^[10][11]

Telkom Netball League

Between 2017 and 2021, Jaguars won five successive Telkom Netball League titles.^[12][13] In 2017, they won their first title after defeating North West Flames 49–43 in the final.^[14] They retained the title in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.^{[15][16][17][18]} In 2023, they won their sixth title.^[19]

UP-Tuks

Jaguars are closely associated with the University of Pretoria and their Varsity Netball team, UP-Tuks. The core of their team is made up of UP-Tuks players. Jenny van Dyk, served as head coach of both UP-Tuks and Jaguars.^[20][21]

Finals

Division One

Season	Winners	Score	Runners Up	Venue
2014[4][22]	Free State Crinums	40–36	Gauteng Jaguars	University of Pretoria[2]
2015[5][23][24]	Free State Crinums	61–59	Gauteng Jaguars	University of Pretoria
2016[6][25]	Free State Crinums	52–43	Gauteng Jaguars	Olive Centre, Durban
2017[14][26]	Gauteng Jaguars	49–43	North West Flames	Mangaung Indoor Centre, Bloemfontein
2018[15][27]	Gauteng Jaguars	51–43	Southern Stings	University of Pretoria
2019[16][28]	Gauteng Jaguars	53–38	Southern Stings	University of Pretoria
2020[17][29]	Gauteng Jaguars	38–26	Free State Crinums	Mangaung Indoor Sports Center, Bloemfontein
2021[18][30]	Gauteng Jaguars	53–41	Southern Stings	Rustenburg
2022[12][31][32]	Gauteng Golden Fireballs	35–32	Gauteng Jaguars	Heartfelt Arena
2023[19][33]	Gauteng Jaguars	59–51	Free State Crinums	Heartfelt Arena
2024[34][35]	Free State Crinums	47–46	Gauteng Jaguars	Ellis Park Arena

Notable players

Captains

Years	Captains
2017–2018	Shadine van der Merwe[7][8][14][20][36]
2019	Marlize de Bruin[37]
2020	Izette Griesel[38][39][40]
2021	Marlize de Bruin[30][41][42][43][44]
2022	Izette Griesel[13][40]
2023	Jasmine Ziegelmeier[45]
2024	Jamie Van Wyk

Internationals

 South Africa

Erin Burger Izette Griesel Kamogelo Maseko Nonsikelelo Mazibuko Shadine van der Merwe

Tshina Mdau Lungile Mthembu Lenize Potgieter Simoné le Roux Renske Stoltz

Jeanté Strydom Chantelle Swart Jamie Van Wyk Ine-Marí Venter

Sources:^{[7][13][43][46][47]}

 South Africa Fast5

• Marlize de Bruin

Coaches

Head coaches

Coach	Years
Jenny van Dyk[12][43][46][48]	2014–2021
Rozanne Matthyse[12][13][49]	2021–

Assistant coaches

Coach	Years
Judy Rathethe[43][13]	20xx–
Erin Burger[13]	2022

Honours

• Telkom Netball League
  • Winners: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
  • Runners Up: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2024