Two Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy players have been awarded wild cards to play at The Championships at Wimbledon. Samantha Murray, current British number five, has been awarded a wild card entry to the women’s singles main draw for the second year running. She has also been awarded a wild card to the women’s doubles qualifying with partner Jade Windley. Anna Smith, also a Team Bath MCTA player, and her partner Jocelyn Rae have been...
University of Bath graduate Aaron Harris is looking forward to making his Commonwealth Games debut in Glasgow this summer. The Sports Performance graduate was today (Thursday) named in England’s six-strong triathlon team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. He features in a high-powered men’s team alongside Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee and his brother Jonathan Brownlee, bronze medallist at the London 2012 Olympics and the 2012 world champion. “This is the first time I’ve...
University of Bath student Kirsten McAslan and graduates Gemma Sole and Aileen Davis were today (Thursday) named in Scotland’s biggest team to compete at a Commonwealth Games. McAslan is a Biochemistry student at the University and has been selected as a member of Scotland’s 4x400m relay squad for the Glasgow 2014 Games. She is following in the footsteps of her mum, Fiona (Hargreaves), who competed at Scotland’s last home Games at Edinburgh in 1986 and...
University of Bath student Ben Carless and graduate Lewis Prosser feature in the Welsh men’s hockey team for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. They join Matt Ruxton, who like Carless plays for Team Bath Buccaneers, in the 16-strong squad for the Games. All three players will make their Commonwealth Games debuts in Glasgow – the Wales men’s team last featured at the Manchester Games in 2002. Defender Carless is currently studying for a Mechanical Engineering...
University of Bath student Georgina Schwiening continued her impressive performances at Duathlon World Championships by taking bronze at the under-23 competition in Spain. The Sport and Exercise Science student was the third under-23 athlete to cross the finish line and was seventh at senior level at the event at Pontevedra, which saw athletes tackle a 10k run, a 40k bike and a 5k run. Last year Schwiening took gold at junior level at the Duathlon...
A network of experts from around the world will share their experiences, research and best practice on the delivery of services to high performance athletes at a forum being held at the University of Bath this week. The International Athletes Services Forum (IASF) is hosted by TASS (the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme) and takes place on Wednesday and Thursday (11 and 12 June). Delegates will examine the support given to performance athletes in helping them...
Sprinter Leon Reid was today named in the Northern Ireland team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 19-year-old will make his Commonwealth Games debut in Glasgow, where he will run the 100m, 200m and 4x100m. Reid is coached at the University of Bath by James Hillier and won silver over 200m for Great Britain at last year’s European Junior Championships in Italy. He is a member of Northern Ireland’s 117-strong team for...
Two further University of Bath-based swimmers were today (Tuesday) added to the Wales squad for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Calum Jarvis, a University of Bath graduate, and Rachel Williams have been added to a 23-strong Wales swimming squad for Glasgow, where they will both make their Commonwealth Games debuts. They join Jemma Lowe, who also trains at British Swimming’s National Centre Bath and was selected for the Welsh team last year. Lowe competes at...
The University of Bath provided a stunning backdrop for the second event of the Triathlon Pink series on Sunday 8 June. Women from across the south west turned out to experience their first taste of a ‘pink’ triathlon and none were disappointed. Following on from a very successful first event in Crystal Palace last weekend competitors took part in all events in Bath – Triathlon Pink, Triathlon Pink Kids and the Pink Pyjama Fun Run...
University of Bath-based swimmers were in impressive form as they continued their preparations for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games at the Mare Nostrum Tour meet in Monaco. Lizzie Simmonds (right), who trains at British Swimming’s National Centre Bath, led the way, winning a pair of gold medals in the 100m and 200m backstroke. Simmonds, who has been selected to represent England at Glasgow 2014, swam a season’s best to win the 100m backstroke title. Jemma...
