University of Bath student Sam Courty has been selected to row in a senior British crew for the first time at the Windermere Cup in Seattle this weekend. The 21-year-old Sport and Exercise Science student is a member of a 10-strong squad for the women’s eight. The third year student joined the GB Rowing Team’s Start programme 18 months ago. “She has always had the right attitude,” said Dan Harris, Talent Development Coach – Bath...
An Olympian, a World Cup medallist and a British Universities champion are the latest Team Bath Athlete of the Month Awards winners. Bobsleigh athlete John Jackson won the men’s award for February after driving the British four-man bob to fifth place at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The GBR1 crew of Jackson, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon, finished just 0.11 seconds off the bronze medal over four runs. It was a particularly...
University of Bath student Kristian Callaghan has been named among the first English athletes to be selected to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 20-year-old Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering student is a member of England’s shooting team for the Games. His selection comes just days after International Security student Alexander Beaton was chosen to swim for Guernsey at his second Commonwealths. Callaghan, who is on the second year of his degree at...
Team Bath head coach Jess Thirlby wants her team to end their ZEO Superleague campaign on a high note with a stylish and classy performance to secure third place in Saturday’s play-off game. The team tackle Hertfordshire Mavericks in a battle for third after going down 43-37 to Manchester Thunder in Monday night’s semi-final. “We have to pick ourselves up and finish the season as strongly as we can,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to...
University of Bath-based swimmer and graduate Michael Jamieson was today (Wednesday) named in the Scotland team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 25-year-old, who trains at the British Gas National Centre for Swimming at the University, will contest the 100m and 200m breaststroke at the Games. He won silver for Scotland in the 200m breaststroke at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealths and followed that up with silver for Great Britain at the London...
University of Bath-based swimmer Siobhan-Marie O’Connor set a 200m individual medley English record last night (Sunday) to win her second gold medal of the 2014 British Gas Swimming Championships in Glasgow. The 18-year-old, who trains at British Swimming's National Centre for Swimming at the University, added the medley title to the 200m freestyle gold and 100m butterfly silver she won earlier in the championships. O'Connor (right) set a new 200m IM record of 2:09.71, well...
Two University of Bath students and promising pentathletes produced strong performances to secure podium places at the Milan Kadlec Memorial junior international competition in Prague at the weekend. Nineteen-year-old Jo Muir won gold in the women’s event, while Joe Choong, aged 18, took silver in the men’s competition. Muir, who is originally from Dumfries and studies Sports Performance at the University of Bath, achieved personal bests in the swimming and fencing, and won the ride...
Bath-based swimmers including Andrew Willis, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn will this week battle for places at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The competition for places on the Scottish team got underway at last week’s Scottish Gas National Open Swimming Championships. Attention now turns to the British Gas Swimming Championships, which begin today (Thursday 10 April) and run to 15 April and are part of the selection processes for both the England and Scotland teams...
University of Bath-based swimmers will be out in force this week as the battle for places on England’s team for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games gets underway. The University is home to British Swimming’s National Centre for Swimming, where some of the country’s top swimmers train. The competition for places on the Scottish team got underway at last week’s Scottish Gas National Open Swimming Championships. Attention now turns to the British Gas Swimming Championships, which...
University of Bath graduate Michael Jamieson set qualification times for the Scotland Commonwealth Games team for both the 100m and 200m breaststroke at the Scottish National Open Swimming Championships. Jamieson, silver medallist for Scotland in the 200m breaststroke at the Commonwealths in Delhi four years ago, posted a qualification time of 2:08.01 to win the 200m breaststroke final. The Sports Performance graduate, who trains at British Swimming’s National Centre for Swimming at the University of...
