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News Archive, Month: February 2011

Team Bath aim to bounce back after wafer-thin Mavericks defeat

16 February 2011

Team Bath’s netballers aim to get back to winning ways when they host Leeds Carnegie on Monday (21 February) following a wafer-thin defeat at Hertfordshire Mavericks at the weekend. The reigning champions suffered a single goal reverse at the hand of Mavericks – the team they beat in last season’s final – going down 42-41 in Saturday’s Fiat Superleague fixture. It was Team Bath’s first Superleague defeat of the season and came despite a late...

GB internationals due to lead BUCS challenge

15 February 2011

Senior Great Britain internationals Danny Talbot and Sophie Skinner will feature for the University of Bath in this weekend’s British Universities and Colleges Sports (BUCS) Indoor Athletics Championships. Sports Performance student Talbot represented Great Britain at last month’s Aviva International in Glasgow, finishing third over 200m and then ran a pb of 20.89 seconds to win the 200m at the European Trials and UK Championships in Sheffield at the weekend. He is coached by Dan...

Double doubles success in Kenya for Team Bath teenagers

15 February 2011

Young Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy players are celebrating a double doubles success after capturing both of the pairs titles at an international tournament in Kenya. Teenage tennis players from the academy, based at the University of Bath, won both the boys’ doubles and the girls’ doubles titles at the Mombasa International Junior Championship. Seventeen-year-old Scott Clayton and 16-year-old David Fox were unseeded for the tournament but ran out comprehensive 6-1, 6-1 winners over Kenya’s...

Jamieson leads way as University of Bath finish runners-up at BUCS champs

14 February 2011

Commonwealth Games silver medallist Michael Jamieson led the way as the University of Bath finished as runners-up at the British Universities and Colleges Sport long course championships. The University of Bath Sports Performance student, who trains at British Swimming’s British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre (ITC), completed an impressive 100m and 200m breaststroke double at Sheffield at weekend. Jamieson’s (pictured right) victory in the 200m breaststroke – the event in which he won silver for...

Seventh place for Nartey

14 February 2011

Team Bath judo player Emmanuel Nartey secured a seventh place finish for Ghana at the Budapest World Cup at the weekend. Nartey won his opening three preliminary round contests in the under-73kg competition before losing to Japan’s Yasuhiro Awano, who went on to win bronze. That put Nartey through to the repechage, where he lost to Petro Kuzmin. There was disappointment for Andy Burns, a University of Bath Coach Education and Sports Development graduate, who...

Burns heading to Budapest World Cup

09 February 2011

University of Bath graduate and Team Bath judo player Andy Burns has been selected to represent Great Britain at the first men’s World Cup of the year, which takes place in Hungary this weekend. Burns, a Coach Education and Sports Development graduate, competes in the under-90kg class at the World Cup in Budapest after winning bronze at the Belgium Open last month. Fellow Team Bath athlete Emmanuel Nartey represents Ghana in the under-73kg class in...

Commonwealth Games swimmers head BUCS challenge

08 February 2011

ommonwealth Games swimmers Michael Jamieson, Andrew Willis and Jess Dickons will head the University of Bath challenge at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) long course championships this weekend. The trio are members of the University of Bath team contesting the championships which take place in Sheffield from Friday (11 February) to Sunday (13 February). Student swimmers from the British Gas Intensive Training Centre and the University of Bath’s performance group will join members...

Semi-finals for Coles

08 February 2011

University of Bath student Chris Coles reached the semi-final of the men’s doubles competition at the weekend’s English National Badminton Championships. The 18-year-old Sports Performance student reached the semis partnering Matt Nottingham before going down 21-10, 21-17 to the more experienced number two seeds Chris Adcock and Andy Ellis. Coles (pictured), who is supported by a Jeff Trendell Scholarship, also reached the mixed doubles quarter-finals with Jessica Fletcher. Psychology graduate Rachel Howard, who trains at...

Team Bath’s victory over Loughborough makes it three from three

07 February 2011

A flying start sent Team Bath on the way to a home 52-38 Fiat Superleague victory against Loughborough Lightning tonight, making it three wins from three matches so far for the reigning champions. The University-based side raced to a 9-1 lead within six minutes of the start. Some blisteringly accurate shooting from Kirsty Delves did much of the early damage. Fed superbly by the Team Bath centre-court and mobile goal-attack Pamela Cookey, Delves scored the...

Team Bath make it two wins from two with 50-40 victory over Dragons

03 February 2011

A powerful and determined last quarter display saw Fiat Netball Superleague champions Team Bath secure a 10-goal victory over Celtic Dragons at the University of Bath tonight (Thursday). Team Bath turned a 35-33 deficit going into the last quarter into a 50-40 win to make it two wins from two games at the start of the season. But the game was not plain sailing for the champions, with Dragons’ 6 foot 6 inch goal shooter...

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