Team Bath’s netballers will continue their quest for a fifth Superleague title with what promise to be three thrilling home fixtures against Surrey Storm, Hertfordshire Mavericks and Celtic Dragons next month. The action gets underway in Phase Two of the Superleague, the Showdown League, with a televised game against Surrey Storm at the Sports Training Village on Monday 15 April. Three days later, on Thursday 18 April, Team Bath host Hertfordshire Mavericks. And on Monday...
Team Bath’s netballers have made sure of a top-three finish in phase one of the Superleague – and with it a place in the Showdown League for phase two. Team Bath overcame Yorkshire Jets 54-51 in Friday night’s penultimate phase one game. They travel to Hertfordshire Mavericks on Friday (22 March) for their last game of phase one in joint first place with Surrey Storm. Defender Samantha Cook made a welcome return from injury against...
Team Bath judo player Ben Fletcher has secured the biggest win of his career to date by taking gold at the Pan-American Open in Uruguay. Fletcher (pictured) beat Brazil’s 2007 world champion Luciano Correa in the final of the over the under-100kg class to take gold in Montevideo. Juergen Klinger, head judo coach at the University of Bath, said: “It was a fantastic result for Ben, especially as it’s his first year as a senior...
Team Bath kept that winning feeling going today for the home fans with a solid but not spectacular 61-35 netball Superleague victory over Team Northumbria at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village. Mia Ritchie, the all-action pocket-rocket in the mid-court for the home team, summed up the mood in the post-match camp when she said that they were “not as happy as we would have liked to be”. “We didn’t put them under enough...
University of Bath-based hurdler Eilidh Child will return to the city from the European Indoor Championships in Sweden with two medals – and without clearing a single jump. The Scot, who is coached by Malcolm Arnold – British Athletics’ Lead Hurdles Coach, runs the 400m hurdles in the outdoor season but has been enjoying an impressive flat season indoors during the winter. She looked good in qualifying through the heats and semis of the 400m...
It was a case of normal service resumed for Team Bath as they ran out 69-30 winners over Loughborough Lightning in the Netball Superleague at the University of Bath tonight (Friday). Playing in front of a sell-out crowd of almost 1400 fans, Team Bath quickly erased memories of last week’s defeat. The two teams looked evenly matched early on as they probed each other for weaknesses. Team Bath took the first quarter 13-8. Team Bath...
