Sarah Brown and Lorraine Kelly are going head-to-head in the ultimate Olympic challenge when they tackle a modern pentathlon at the University of Bath to raise money for the charity PiggyBankKids. Sarah is President of PiggyBankKids having founded the charity (charity registration number is 1092312) in 2002 with the aim of giving children in the UK the best possible opportunity to live healthy and happy lives. She recruited Lorraine Kelly when the ITV presenter asked...
Team Bath’s exciting new Fiat Superleague side were outgunned but not outclassed as they went down 45-55 to Northern Thunder in front of a big home crowd at the University of Bath tonight. Coach Jess Garland experimented with a number of combinations as her side showed flashes of brilliance but also inexperience in their second defeat of the season. “This early in the season we need to know what options there are. Some of the...
University staff took advantage of a free offer to try new sporting activities at the Sports Training Village on Friday 27 January's opening Gold Rush event of the year. The Staff Gold Rush was held to celebrate six months to go to the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. It included an opportunity to try out a wide range of activities from bobsleigh on the push-start track to X-biking and from massage to netball. Jason...
University of Bath-based skeleton athlete Lizzy Yarnold is the new Junior World Champion, taking gold at the Igls track in Austria. Yarnold won the junior title yesterday (Thursday), a week after winning gold at the World Cup at St Moritz in Switzerland. The 23-year-old from West Kingsdown in Kent took silver at last year's juniors. She said: "It was a tough race with a very good field but I am delighted and really, really happy...
Team Bath judo players collected three titles at the British Closed Championships at Sheffield at the weekend. Jan Gosiewski and Tom Reed both impressed in taking gold medals in the senior competition at under-73kg and under-81kg respectively. Gosiewski is a University of Bath Mechanical Engineering graduate and Reed is a Business Administration graduate. There was also a gold in the under-90kg junior competition for Sam Potts, a Sports Performance student at the University. Pharmacy graduate...
Team Bath will aim to record their first win of the 2012 Fiat Netball Superleague season when they host Northern Thunder at the Team Bath Arena on Monday (30 January). A young Team Bath side went down 61-49 to Celtic Dragons in Cardiff in their season opener on Friday night in a game that saw four Team Bath players making their Superleague debuts. The quartet of Sam Cook, Kat Hayes, Yasmin Parsons and Becky Watkins...
University of Bath student Louise Hunt has made a terrific start to 2012 winning back to back tournaments in Australia. Hunt, who is a Sports Performance student, won the women’s doubles title at the Melbourne Open disability event partnering Jordanne Whiley. The number three seeds beat Japanese top seeds Yui Kamiji and Yuko Okabe 6-2, 3-6, (10-6) in the final. That performance came just a week after the pair won the women’s doubles at the...
Olympic medal winning modern pentathlete Heather Fell turns TV presenter this weekend when she co-presents BBC One West’s Olympic Dreams programme this Sunday (22 January). The Beijing 2008 silver medallist and former world number one, who trains at the Pentathlon GB high performance centre at the University of Bath, presents the programme alongside the BBC’s Alistair Durden. It includes a guide to modern pentathlon as well as a video diary with trampolinist Laura Gallagher, who...
There were medals galore for University of Bath-based swimmers at the Victoria State Championships in Melbourne, Australia. World University Games champion Jess Dickons led the way, winning gold in the 200m butterfly. The University of Bath Sports Performance student beat Beijing 2008 Olympian and 2011 World Championships silver medallist Ellen Gandy into second place. Michael Jamieson made it a Bath Intensive Training Centre double on the final day of the championships, striking gold in the...
Team Bath’s young and exciting Superleague squad get their 2012 campaign underway with a trip to Cardiff to play Celtic Dragons on Friday (20 January). Head coach Jess Garland says she expects the Welsh side to present a tough challenge for the four-times champions in their Fiat Netball Superleague opener. Team Bath are continuing their policy of developing talented young players this season – a policy that has borne fruit in past campaigns. “We are...
