Tash Pavelin believes Team Bath Netball are ready to produce “something special” during the 2022 Vitality Superleague season after the talented defender recommitted to the club for another year. Pavelin, who plays goal-defence and wing-defence, built on her breakthrough 2020 campaign with some fantastic performances during a 2021 season that saw the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold reach a first Superleague final in eight years. They won 18 of their 22 matches across the course...
After an injury-curtailed 2021 season, Jess Shaw says she is raring to go and eyeing a happier ending to the 2022 Vitality Superleague campaign after recommitting to Team Bath Netball. The England Futures player was in fantastic form for the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold during the early stages of the 2021 season, producing a series of dynamic displays at wing-attack and centre. Sadly she suffered an injury in training in April, resulting in a...
It was a frustrating first home game of the new BUCS Super Rugby season for the Team Bath men’s 1st XV as they lost 32-8 to West Country rivals Hartpury in front of a big crowd at the University of Bath. The Rengen-sponsored hosts went 13-0 down early on but fought back well and had plenty of ball and territory. However, they were only able to convert that into one try and a penalty, then...
Exciting young shooter Lily Jones says she can’t wait to learn from her role models after becoming the latest player to progress through the Team Bath Netball talent development network into the Superleague squad. The 18-year-old from Jersey has been named in the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold squad for the 2022 Vitality Superleague campaign after excelling as captain of Team Bath’s U19s last season. She also caught the eye in a number of training...
When Lily-May Catling first took to the Team Bath Arena court for a junior tournament at the age of 12, she looked around and thought ‘I want to play Superleague netball here’. Fourteen years on and the defender will get to fulfil that dream in the famous Blue & Gold after joining Haines Watts-sponsored Team Bath Netball for the 2022 Vitality Superleague season. It’s been quite a journey for Catling, who grew up in Wimborne...
BUCS Super Rugby returns to the Team Bath Sports Training Village tonight (Wednesday) as the Team Bath men's 1st XV take on Hartpury in a West Country derby (6.30pm kick-off). There have been some fantastic matches between the local rivals during recent years and the Rengen-sponsored home side will be determined to put on a show for spectators, who can watch the match under the Wednesday Night Lights for free. There are five changes to...
She is one of the most exciting prospects in English netball, can play at both ends of the court, is U21 captain for club and country – and now Molly Hole is also part of the Team Bath Netball Vitality Superleague squad for the 2022 season. It continues an incredible rise through the ranks for the hugely-talented 18-year-old, who first started with the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold at their regional hub in Dorset five...
Ten-time Paralympic Games medallist and University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport inductee Stephanie Millward has announced her retirement from competitive swimming. The Team Bath AS swimmer has a long association with the University of Bath, having trained there a teenager before a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis put her swimming career on hold for ten years. Upon her return to the pool she quickly became one of the world's leading Paralympic swimmers, representing GB at...
Rachel Shaw is eyeing a trophy double as she goes into her ninth Vitality Superleague season with Team Bath Netball. As well as targeting the Superleague crown with the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold, the influential wing-attack is also coach of the University of Bath’s talented student squad who are returning to BUCS [British Universities & Colleges Sport] competition this week after a year out. “This is my ninth season with Team Bath and I’m...
Super shooter Kim Borger says she and her team-mates have “unfinished business” in the Vitality Superleague after being confirmed as the first member of a star-studded Team Bath Netball squad for the 2022 season. It will be a fourth year in the UK for the inspirational Australian, who topped the Superleague shooting stats with an incredible 93 per cent conversion rate as she helped fire the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold to the 2021 Superleague...