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A picture of Team Bath Netball's players in a huddle in front of a packed stand at the Team Bath Arena during their 2024 Netball Super League match against Saracens Mavericks

Improved showing but Team Bath Netball are unable to build on strong start as Super League rivals Saracens Mavericks hit back

15 March 2024

Team Bath Netball were unable to build on a strong first quarter as Super League rivals Saracens Mavericks hit back to win 60-48 at the Team Bath Arena on Friday. Roared on by a 1,600-strong crowd, the Blue & Gold raced into a 15-12 lead after an excellent opening 15 minutes and could have been further clear. However, mistakes crept back into their game which allowed Mavericks to put a couple of runs of goals...

A picture of University of Bath men's 1st XV player Iwan Price-Thomas kicking a conversion in a BUCS Super Rugby fixture

Storming second half sees Bath rally from 26-0 down to beat Cardiff and claim top-five finish in 2023-24 BUCS Super Rugby league table

14 March 2024

Iwan Price-Thomas’s last-minute penalty completed a dramatic turnaround victory in Cardiff for the University of Bath men’s 1st XV in their last BUCS Super Rugby league match of the 2023-24 season. An early yellow card set the tone for a disappointing first half for the Bath Building Society-sponsored visitors, who found themselves trailing 26-0 at the break. It was a completely different story in the second half, though, as a brilliant try from Iwan Coyle...

A picture of Rengen CEO Iestyn Lewis shaking hands with University of Bath DIrector of Sport Stephen Baddeley following a sponsorship renewal in March 2024

Rengen to continue supporting Team Bath’s sport and fitness activities at all levels after agreeing three-year partnership extension

12 March 2024

Team Bath and Rengen have today announced a three-year extension to their successful partnership supporting sport and fitness activities at the University of Bath. A leading company specialising in student, residential and commercial developments and lettings, Bath-based Rengen – whose CEO is University of Bath alumnus Iestyn Lewis – has been an official partner of Team Bath since 2019. During that time Rengen has supported Team Bath’s activities at all levels, from recreational and youth...

A picture of (from left) Dimitri Coutya, Oliver-Lam Watson, Piers Gilliver and Joshua Waddell celebrating after winning foil team gold at the 2024 Wheelchair Fencing European Championships in Paris.

Five golds among big European Champs medal haul for Bath-based GB wheelchair fencers in first visit to Paris during Paralympic year

11 March 2024

The GB wheelchair fencing squad, based at the University of Bath, enjoyed a successful first visit to Paris this Paralympic year as they won five gold medals at the 2024 European Championships. Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver claimed two individual titles apiece, the former going mighty close to completing a personal hat-trick, before joining forces with Oliver Lam-Watson and Joshua Waddell to win foil team gold and epee team bronze. Gemma Collis, who occasionally trains...

A picture of Pentathlon GB's Kerenza Bryson who bronze at the UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Cup in Cairo, Egypt in March 2024

Kerenza Bryson wins brilliant bronze as Bath-based Pentathlon GB athletes contest first UIPM World Cup of Olympic season in Cairo

10 March 2024

Pentathlon GB’s Kerenza Bryson won a brilliant bronze and there were top-10 finishes for Kate French and Charlie Brown when Cairo hosted the first UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Cup of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games season. Bryson went into the women’s final sitting in fifth place after the fencing ranking round and made an excellent start to the day by scoring a maximum 300 points in the riding. [caption id="attachment_70277" align="alignright" width="292"] Charlie Brown earned...

Frustrating last quarter but Team Bath Netball can take positives from improved Super League display against impressive London Pulse

08 March 2024

Team Bath Netball Head Coach Asha Francis says her players should take the positives from an improved display against an excellent London Pulse outfit in front of another Super League capacity crowd at the Team Bath Arena. Francis challenged her team to be competitive against the title contenders and they were for three quarters of an entertaining game before a last-quarter surge saw the visitors, who impressed at both ends of the court, race to...

The Team Bath Netball U19 squad celebrate after beating Severn Stars in the 2024 NPL competition.

How Team Bath Netball’s thriving athlete development programme is helping to Inspire Inclusion this International Women’s Day

08 March 2024

Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day 2024 and this year’s theme is Inspire Inclusion, with one of the focuses being on elevating women’s and girls’ participation and achievement in sport. As one of the country’s leading women’s sports clubs, Team Bath Netball has been providing opportunities for people to train, compete, develop and thrive for the past 25 years with hundreds of women being part of the Blue & Gold programme as players, coaches...

A picture of Sam Mercer in BUCS Super Rugby action for the University of Bath men's 1st XV

Five-try Bath more than play their part in entertaining BUCS Super Rugby South West derby against newly-crowned champions Exeter

07 March 2024

The University of Bath men’s 1st XV scored five tries during an entertaining last home game of the 2023-24 BUCS Super Rugby season against newly-crowned champions Exeter. On a night when the visitors were presented with the league trophy, the Bath Building Society-sponsored hosts looked set to spoil the party as they raced into a 14-0 lead thanks to two well-worked tries from captain Elis Horgan and Sam Mercer (pictured), both converted by Iwan Price-Thomas....

A picture of University of Bath student and GB Rugby 7s player Austin Emens

Bath student-rugby player Austin Emens helps GB Rugby 7s reach men’s final at HSBC SVNS Los Angeles tournament

04 March 2024

University of Bath student Austin Emens was part of the Great Britain Rugby 7s squad that reached the men’s final at the HSBC SVNS Los Angeles tournament in the United States. Emens, who studies Business and represents the University men’s 1st XV in BUCS Super Rugby, scored GB’s first try of the competition inside the opening two minutes of their match against Fiji but picked up a hamstring injury in the process. That meant he...

Ruthless Severn Stars punish Team Bath Netball errors but cannot silence a sell-out crowd in first Super League home game of 2024

01 March 2024

Team Bath Netball had a sell-out crowd fully behind them in their first home match of the 2024 Super League season but it was in-form Severn Stars who took the spoils with a ruthless 72-44 victory. The visitors demonstrated why they are among the league’s early pacesetters as they fully capitalised on Team Bath errors to put together unbroken scoring streaks in each quarter and take the game away from the Blue & Gold. Team...

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