News Archive, Month: April 2011

Team Bath move closer to play-offs with win over Leeds

30 April 2011

Team Bath’s netballers edged ever closer to a place in the FIAT netball Superleague play-offs with a 52-49 win over Leeds Carnegie at home today but they were made to fight all the way to the wire for it. Trailing 44-45 with six and a half minutes to the final whistle, Team Bath needed a goal-surge in the final three minutes to get the win in front of the Bank Holiday weekend home crowd at...

Coles wins European Junior crown

29 April 2011

University of Bath student Chris Coles has collected the badminton men’s doubles title at the European Junior Championships. The Sports Performance student took the title at Vantaa in Finland partnering Matt Nottingham. The pair, who were seeded 3/4 for the tournament, came from behind to beat Germany’s Fabian Holzer and Max Schwenger, seeded two, 15-21, 21-14, 21-15 in the final. In March Chris was named winner of the 2011 Badminton Writers Association young player of...

Late try denies University of Bath in varsity match

21 April 2011

The University of Bath men’s XV were cruelly denied victory in the rugby varsity match against Loughborough at the Rec last night (Wednesday) in a contest between two of the powerhouses of university sport. Joe Atkinson’s converted try four minutes from time was enough to earn the visitors a 17-16 win in a game that the University of Bath team had led for most of the match. There was better news in the women’s game,...

University of Bath student Prentice wins World Cup bronze

16 April 2011

Twenty-year-old University of Bath student Freyja Prentice won the first Modern Pentathlon World Cup medal of her career when she took bronze at Sassari in Italy today (Saturday). It means the young Brit continued her impressive record of finishing in the top-10 in each of the six rounds of the World Cup in which she has competed to date. Her previous best was a fifth place at the Cairo World Cup in March last year....

Louise and Chris are our latest Athletes of the Month

14 April 2011

University of Bath students Louise Hunt and Chris Coles are the latest winners of Team Bath’s Athlete of the Month awards, which are sponsored by Oakley and the Milsom Eye Company. Wheelchair tennis player Louise collected her award for March following what she declared was the best month of her career to date. Louise returned to the top-20 in the world after winning the women’s singles title at the North East tournament in Sunderland and...

Paralympic pair selected for European Champs

13 April 2011

A pair of Team Bath Paralympians have been selected to represent Great Britain at the IPC Swimming European Championships in Berlin this summer. Kate Grey and Liz Johnson are both named in the GB team for the championships, which take place from 3-10 July. The championships are an opportunity for Britain’s swimmers to put down a marker ahead of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Liz (pictured) won gold in the SB6 100m breaststroke at the...

Marathon man arrives at Bath tomorrow (Tuesday 12 April)

11 April 2011

Multi-marathon man Andy McMenemy will run his 28th ultra marathon in successive days at the University of Bath tomorrow (Tuesday 12 April). Andy has set himself the task of running a total of 66 ultra marathons - one a day over 66 days - to raise money for ABF The Soldiers’ Charity. Each ultra-marathon is a 50km run – approximately 31 miles. He started his challenge in Leeds on 16 March and he is due...

That Paralympic Show visits Team Bath

11 April 2011

Team Bath sport scientists demonstrated some of the science behind British sport on the Channel 4 programme That Paralympic Show on Saturday (9 April). Presenters Ade Adepitan, who played for the British basketball team at two Paralympic Games, and Rick Edwards took part in a series of challenges at the University of Bath, which will host the Paralympics GB preparation camps ahead of London 2012. Under the guidance of Jonathan Robinson, one of Team Bath’s...

Rec set to host big varsity clash

11 April 2011

Two of the country’s top sporting universities lock horns again on the rugby pitch in the seventh University of Bath v Loughborough varsity fixture on Wednesday 20th April. The clash of the titans takes place at Bath Rugby’s famous Recreation Ground and promises an exciting night of action. The University of Bath men’s team are being sponsored by IPL for this year’s encounter. The action kick-offs with a University of Bath v Loughborough women’s contest...

Double Superleague delight for Team Bath

10 April 2011

Team Bath’s netballers picked up maximum points from their Fiat Superleague double-header this weekend with wins against Celtic Dragons and Team Northumbria to maintain a top four slot with four matches to go before the play-offs. Back-to-back wins were important for coach Jess Garland after the previous double-header weekend saw Team Bath win convincingly on the Friday but losing on the Sunday. Pre-weekend the former England international had told her players to concentrate on the...

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