University of Bath sporting scholar Peter Scott (right) and fellow Team Bath Buccaneers player Liam Sanford (left) will gain their first experience of senior international hockey after being named in the England Men’s squad for a four-Test series in South Africa. Sanford was added to England’s central training programme last month after impressing in trials and is in line to win his first senior cap. Sport Performance student Scott, supported by a Trendell Sports Scholarship,...
University of Bath-based swimmer Jemma Lowe has called time on a distinguished career that saw her race at two Olympic Games and win medals on the World, European and Commonwealth stages. Her announcement comes just a day after former Team Bath swimmer Sascha Kindred announced his retirement following a stellar career that saw him win 62 major medals, including seven Paralympic golds. Lowe moved her training base to the Bath National Training Centre in September...
Four University of Bath-based international athletes got to try their hand at driving diggers and dump trucks as they paid a special visit to the headquarters of Team Bath partners MJ Church. Rio 2016 wheelchair fencing silver-medallist Piers Gilliver and judoka Ben Fletcher were joined by England Women’s rugby player Sydney Gregson and skeleton athlete Jor’dan McIntosh on the informative and interactive tour of the Civil Engineering, Plant, Transport and Waste Management Contractors’ Marshfield base....
Rising Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy star Amelia Bissett has helped Great Britain reach the finals of this year’s U14 Tennis Europe Winter Cup – the sport’s premier indoor junior team competition. The 13-year-old, who is coached by Eve Hughes and Craig Procter at the University of Bath Sports Training Village, won five of her six matches as Britain made impressive progress through the weekend’s qualifying group stages in Pecs, Hungary. Bissett and her team-mates will now...
University of Bath alumni Natasha Hunt, Izzy Noel-Smith and Amy Wilson Hardy will all start for England Women in Saturday’s televised Six Nations opener against France. Sarah Hunter, who trains at the Sports Training Village, will captain an experienced Red Roses squad that can boast 994 international caps between them. The match will take place at Twickenham at 7.35pm, immediately after the men’s fixture against France, and will be televised on Sky Sports Mix. Wilson Hardy, who...
The University of Bath men’s 1st XV kept up their push for a BUCS Super Rugby play-off place with a spirited 25-15 victory over Cardiff Met on Wednesday afternoon. In an entertaining final home match of the season, Bath – sponsored by IKON Construction – scored two early penalties through Will Flinn before visiting prop Sam Cochrane touched down to cut the lead to 6-5. However, when Cardiff captain Aled Evans was sin-binned just after...
Double Olympic medallist James Guy is set to make his first competitive appearance since becoming the latest World Champion to move his training base to the University of Bath. The 21-year-old, who stormed to the World 200m freestyle title in 2015, has made the switch to the British Swimming National Centre Bath along with coach Jol Finck and fellow Rio 2016 Olympian Cameron Kurle. They will train alongside the likes of Olympic silver-medallists Jazz Carlin,...
It is the groundbreaking talent identification and development scheme that set double Olympic Champions Heather Stanning and Helen Glover on their way to becoming two of Britain’s greatest-ever sportswomen. Now the GB Rowing Team Start Programme based at the University of Bath has an exciting, ambitious group of emerging rowers keen to follow in their wake as attention turns to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and beyond. Training and racing alongside students in the University...
