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Team Bath judo players head to British trials

18 January 2011

Team Bath judo players will aim to make their mark at the British trials, which take place in Sheffield this weekend. Three athletes who won gold medals at the Senior European Cup in Sweden in October will lead the Team Bath challenge. Jan Gosiewski, a University of Bath Mechanical Engineering graduate, goes in the 73kg class at the senior trials, while Tom Reed, a Business Administration graduate, contests the 81kg class, and Megan Fletcher goes...

Snowboarder Jamie prepares for World Winter University Games

18 January 2011

University of Bath student and twice British junior snowboard cross champion Jamie Barrow is fine-tuning his preparations to make his World University Winter Games debut in Turkey later this month. The 18-year-old Sports Performance student is a member of the British team competing at the Games, which take place in Erzurum from 27 January to 6 February. Jamie, who was joint winner of the University of Bath’s 2010 Santander Outstanding Sportsman Fresher of the Year...

Team Bath netballers prepare for international action

14 January 2011

Five members of Team Bath’s Superleague squad feature in the England squad to take on the New Zealand Silver Ferns in the three-game Fiat international netball series that gets underway tomorrow (Saturday). Pamela Cookey is England’s vice-captain and is joined by Sasha Corbin, Serena Guthrie, Eboni Beckford-Chambers and Stacey Francis in the 14-player squad. It also features four former Team Bath players. A sixth current Team Bath Superleague player, Rosie Allison, features in England’s national...

Golden girl Amy returns to action on the ice

14 January 2011

University of Bath-based athlete Amy Williams showed a glimpse of the talent and determination that made her Olympic skeleton champion by producing the third fastest run of the day on her return to competition at the Igls World Cup today (Friday). The 28-year-old took a break from competition following her gold medal winning performance at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games almost a year ago. She finished 12th overall in World Cup five on her...

Student Skinner gets Great Britain call-up

13 January 2011

University of Bath sports science undergraduate Sophie Skinner has been called up to the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to compete at the Senior Combined Events International from 29-30 January, 2011. Skinner, originally from Crediton and an Exeter Harrier, is currently coached by Team Bath’s Colin Bovell at the University of Bath’s world-renowned Sports Training Village and was selected after taking silver at last weekend’s Senior British Championships – an event in which...

Bobsleigh star targets Sochi

11 January 2011

British bobsleigh star Paula Walker, who trains at the University of Bath, discussed her bid to compete at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games on BBC’s Points West programme last night (Monday), following four top-10 World Cup fnishes so far this season.

Freyja features in Independent on Sunday

10 January 2011

University of Bath student Freyja Prentice featured in an article in yesteday’s Independent on Sunday- "Modern girl masters all the old skills." The 20-year-old Biology student is one of Britain’s strong group of women pentathletes training at Pentathlon GB’s high performance centre at the University of Bath.

Golden girl Amy returns World Cup action

07 January 2011

Amy Williams, Britain’s Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games golden girl, returns to action on the ice for the first time since winning her skeleton gold medal next Friday (14 January). The University of Bath Sports Performance graduate won Britain’s first Olympic Winter Games individual gold medal for 30 years when she stormed to victory in the skeleton at Vancouver on 20 February last year. She delayed her start to the 2010/11 skeleton season as part...

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