Team Bath's Zeo Superleague Head Coach Jess Thirlby is determined that her players should take "every piece of learning possible" from a topsy-turvy 49-49 home draw against Hertfordshire Mavericks. The home side turned round a seven-goal deficit at half-time to lead 48-46 with under three minutes to go at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. A couple of unforced errors and a missed final-second attempt on goal allowed Mavericks to sneak back and snatch...
Team Bath closed the gap at the top of the ZEO Netball Superleague with an impressive 55-51 win at second placed Manchester Thunder last night (Monday). The result keeps alive hopes that Team Bath could secure a top-two finish at the end of the regular season, and with it home advantage in the semi-finals. Last night’s win puts Team Bath just two points behind Thunder in third with four Superleague fixtures remaining, starting with the...
Team Bath’s netballers battled hard but went down to table-toppers Surrey Storm 51-61 at the University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight (17 March) in the Zeo Netball Superleague. Storm played a blinder in defence and were sharper at getting the ball through to their shooters. Team Bath's England mid-court player Serena Guthrie remained up-beat despite the defeat. She said: "Obviously we are disappointed to go down by ten goals but Surrey are a good...
Team Bath head coach Jess Thirlby is looking for her team to push on and challenge for a top-two finish at the halfway mark of the 2014 ZEO Superleague regular season. The reigning Superleague champions are currently third in the table with seven of their 14 regular season games played. They face two key games in the space of three days with the long trip to Team Northumbria on Saturday (15 March) followed by a...
University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher made a piece of history today (Monday) by winning Britain’s first gold medal at a Paralympic Winter Games. Gallagher, who graduated from the University with a Mathematics degree in 2006, took gold in the visually impaired Alpine Skiing Super G event at the Sochi Games with guide Charlotte Evans. Their medals were also Britain’s first gold medals on the snow at either the Paralympic or Olympic Winter Games. Gallagher,...
University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Child landed another medal on the world stage when she led the Great Britain 4x400m quartet to bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Poland. Child, who was Great Britain team captain for the championships, led off the GB relay quartet that came home third behind the USA and Jamaica in Sopot. Child, who is coached by Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics’ Lead Hurdles Coach, ran the first leg, passing the...
