Battling Team Bath Netball saw their chances of winning a sixth Vitality Superleague title ended by an excellent Loughborough Lightning side in the Final Four semi-finals at Birmingham on Saturday. After a nervy start, the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold held their own against table-topping Loughborough for much of the first half and closed the gap to 25-21 at one point. However, Lightning pushed ahead again just before the break and then really turned the screw...
Captain Eboni Beckford-Chambers believes Team Bath Netball have shown they have the “spirit and character” to win a sixth Superleague title at this weekend’s Vitality Superleague Final Four showdown in Birmingham. The Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold looked out of the reckoning after losing six of their opening ten matches of the season, only to turn things around with some scintillating performances and results since Easter. “There were probably a lot of doubters midway through the...
Excitement and pride are the overwhelming emotions for Team Bath Netball’s players and coaches as they prepare for this weekend’s Vitality Superleague Final Four showdown in Birmingham. The Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold have put themselves firmly in the mix for a record sixth Superleague title after a storming second half to the 2017 season, overhauling defending champions Surrey Storm to take fourth spot after a run of seven successive wins. They will now face table-topping...
University of Bath-based athletes Paul Blake, Sophie Kamlish and Polly Maton have been named in the 49-strong British squad for the IPC World Para Athletics Championships London 2017. The trio, who train at the Sports Training Village, are no strangers to the international stage having all competed at the Rio 2016 Paralylmpic Games, where Blake struck gold in the T36 400m and silver in the 800m. He also won two medals at the London 2012...
Mike Taylor has joined the world-class coaching staff at the British Swimming National Centre based at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Taylor, who began his coaching career with the City of Sheffield, will work alongside David McNulty and Jol Finck with a training group that includes Olympic medallists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Chris Walker-Hebborn and James Guy. “When I saw there was an opportunity to work with British Swimming, I was very excited...
Olympians Samantha Murray and Jamie Cooke took the titles when the University of Bath played host to the 2017 British Modern Pentathlon Championships on Sunday. An action-packed day at the Sports Training Village also saw members of the public take part in the first-ever Laser-Run City Tour event to be staged in the UK. The University is the long-term home to Pentathlon GB’s National Training Centre, so it was against a familiar backdrop that London...
Team Bath Netball have booked their place in the Vitality Superleague Final Four, despite seeing their winning run come to an end at Wasps Netball on Saturday. Surrey Storm’s 71-63 defeat at table-topping Loughborough Lightning meant they were unable to take advantage of the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold’s 49-35 loss earlier in the evening. The results on the final day of the regular season meant that Team Bath finished fourth overall, three points clear of...
Kate French will go into this weekend’s British Open Modern Pentathlon Championships at the University of Bath with confidence high after finishing the 2017 UIPM World Cup series ranked as the women’s number one. The Rio 2016 Olympian competed in three of the competitions this year, winning gold in Cairo and silver in Los Angeles as well as placing sixth in Kecskemet, Hungary. She is among the country’s top modern pentathletes competing in the British...
