Molly Hole has been named as England captain for November’s Europe Netball U21 competition and selected in the Roses Academy squad for the 2021-22 season alongside fellow Team Bath Netball Academy player Ella Williams. The talented duo earned their places in the 36-strong squad after impressing during a two-day camp over the weekend for players who had previously caught the eye of selectors at Positional Day training sessions during August. Defender Hole (pictured top), who...
It may be 18 months since their last league match but ambition remains high for the University of Bath men’s 1st XV ahead of their eagerly-awaited return to action in the 2021-22 BUCS Super Rugby season. The Rengen-sponsored squad make the journey to Yorkshire to face Leeds Beckett on Wednesday 29th September (kick-off 2pm) and can’t wait to get going as the country’s leading higher-education rugby institutions resume rivalries following the postponement of the 2020-21...
Nearly 200 talented netballers aged 14-18 from across the South West of England competed in the first-ever Team Bath Netball Academy tournament at the University of Bath on Sunday. Fourteen teams, two from each of the seven regional Academy Development Centres, got to experience playing in the Team Bath Arena, home to the Blue & Gold’s Vitality Superleague squad, during the day-long competition supported by Haines Watts, Team Bath’s principal sponsor. Fifteen coaches from the...
University of Bath student Grace Crompton made a big impact in her debut tournament with GB Rugby Sevens as she helped them win gold in the HSBC Sevens Women’s Fast Four competition in Vancouver, Canada. Crompton, who is about to start the second year of a Sport Management & Coaching degree course, joined University of Bath graduate Amy Wilson Hardy on the scoresheet as Great Britain beat the United States 34-12 in the final. She...
Team Bath Tennis player Giles Hussey enjoyed home success and there was a third consecutive victory for Sonay Kartal when the University of Bath hosted Round 7 of the 2021 UK Pro League tennis tournament. An exciting week of televised competition on the indoor courts at the Team Bath Sports Training Village ended with Hussey beating Round 6 winner Billy Harris 6-3 6-4 in the men’s final. [caption id="attachment_66032" align="alignright" width="292"] Giles Hussey in action...
Fast5 All-Stars is returning this Autumn and Team Bath Netball will once again be among the eight teams bidding for success at London’s Copper Box Arena. It will be the fourth time the exciting, fast-paced tournament has been played, with the Blue & Gold looking to go one better than their best performance to date – runners-up in the inaugural competition in 2017. Also taking part are the other teams that finished in the top...
University of Bath alumnus Ben Jones won through to the semi-finals of the televised UK Pro League tennis tournament taking place this week at the Team Bath Sports Training Village but has since had to withdraw. Previously, undefeated Jones, who is making his debut in the series, came through from the groups after a tough three-set win over David Quayle on Wednesday. He was the first man to progress this far. "It’s a fantastic event”,...
The UK Pro League, the televised national tennis competition that helped US Open finalist Emma Raducanu develop her career last year, is coming to the Team Bath Sports Training Village from September 13-19. Team Bath Tennis will host Round 7 of the 2021 competition, which will be broadcast live and sees some of the UK’s aspiring professional players compete in a round-robin format and play-offs to secure League Ranking Points as they endeavour to qualify for...
Team Bath Netball’s Anya Le Monnier is among a handful of coaches nationally to be accepted onto the England Netball Pathway Coach Development Programme for the 2021-22 season. Le Monnier was a training partner for the Blue & Gold Superleague squad last season and also assistant coach of Team Bath’s U19s in the National Performance League (NPL). She has a long-time passion for coaching, having studied Sports Performance at the University of Bath and taken...
Triathlete Vicky Holland won a bronze medal as part of all-British podium as London hosted the opening round of the 2021 Super League Triathlon Championship on Sunday. Holland, who trains at the University of Bath, joined fellow Tokyo 2020 Olympians Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown on the women’s podium at the event in Canary Wharf. It was raced in a triple mix format, with the traditional triathlon order of swim, bike and run shuffled across...
