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British beach volleyball women move a step closer to qualifying two teams for Olympics

The Bath-based British women’s beach volleyball squad have moved a step closer to qualifying two pairings to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The four-strong British team took gold at the semi-final of the CEV Continental Cup in France at the weekend to qualify a place at next month’s Final...

22 May 12 | Category: Olympic & Paralympic, Volleyball
Team Bath end Superleague season in fourth and looking to the future

Team Bath’s young netballers ended their 2012 Fiat Netball Superleague campaign in fourth place. The team went down 62-38 to Surrey Storm in Saturday’s Superleague Showdown semi-final in Dagenham to set-up a third/fourth place play-off against Hertfordshire Mavericks on Sunday. As with the other contests with the Hertfordshire side this season,...

21 May 12 | Category: Netball
Netballers through to superleague semis

Team Bath are through to the Showdown Weekend – the climax of this season’s Fiat Netball Super League – after crushing Celtic Dragons 52-50 last night at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village. Roared on by the home crowd they made a stunning start to the must-win fixture, leading 6-0...

15 May 12 | Category: Netball
Spence & Murray achieve Olympic qualifying standard with World Championships gold and bronze

University of Bath graduate Mhairi Spence achieved the London 2012 Olympic qualifying standard in style by winning gold at the Modern Pentathlon World Championships in Rome today (Saturday). And there was further success for the British team with University of Bath student Samantha Murray producing a terrific finish to take bronze...

12 May 12 | Category: Modern Pentathlon, Olympic & Paralympic
Team Bath must slay Dragons for semi-final place

Team Bath’s netballers face the biggest game of their season to date when they tackle Celtic Dragons at the University of Bath on Monday (14 May). The winner of the contest will book a place in the Superleague Showdown – the new climax to the Fiat Netball Superleague season. “It’s definitely now...

08 May 12 | Category: Netball
Bath trio win bronze on opening day of World Champs

Great Britain opened their campaign at the 2012 Modern Pentathlon World Championships by taking bronze in the women’s team relay. The trio of Katy Burke, Kate French and Katy Livingston, who train at the Pentathlon GB High Performance Centre at the University of Bath, came home in third place behind Germany...

08 May 12 | Category: Modern Pentathlon
Alex is University of Bath Sports Personality of the Year

Badminton player Alex Huttunen has been named 2012 University of Bath Sports Personality of the Year Award at a ceremony at Bath’s Assembly Rooms. Alex, who is in his fourth year of a Mathematics degree at the University of Bath, received the award following a vote of members of the Students’...

04 May 12 | Category: Badminton, Netball, Other Sports
University footballers are BUCS champions

The University of Bath men’s first XI are celebrating winning the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Mars Football Championship title for the first time for 11 years. The team beat Stirling University 2-0 in the championship final at Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park Ground courtesy of goals from Craig Mullen and...

04 May 12 | Category: Football
A United Nations of athletes heading to Bath this summer

A ‘United Nations’ of athletes from more than a dozen nations will prepare for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the University of Bath. The University of Bath has some of the best sports facilities in the country on one site – and athletes from four continents will flock...

03 May 12 | Category: Olympic & Paralympic
Students to compete in Olympic test event

More than 50 University of Bath students will get the chance of a lifetime when they compete in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Outdoor Athletics Championships in London, the showcase event in the universities’ national outdoor athletics season. BUCS and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG)...

03 May 12 | Category: Athletics, Olympic & Paralympic