A penalty from the last kick of a pulsating game condemned the University of Bath to a frustrating defeat in their opening BUCS Super Rugby game of the 2017-18 season against Leeds Beckett University. There were 94 minutes on the clock when Harri Collier slotted over from close range to give the visitors a hard-fought 27-26 success in a hugely-entertaining contest where the lead changed hands six times. Bath, sponsored by IKON Construction, once again...
Mia Ritchie and Tash Pavelin have become the latest players to commit to Team Bath Netball for the 2018 Vitality Superleague season. It will be an ninth successive Superleague campaign for Ritchie, a key member of the leadership team whose dynamic mid-court performances have made her a huge favourite of the Blue and Gold supporters. By contrast it will be a first taste of Superleague for University of Bath Natural Sciences student Pavelin, who makes...
England international Stacey Francis, a five-time Superleague winner with Team Bath Netball, today became the latest inductee into the University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport. The ceremony took place as part of celebrations to mark the University being named as the 2018 Sports University of the Year in The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide, with staff from all departments turning out to congratulate Francis on her induction and to be thanked for their...
Team Bath Netball got the 2017-18 season off to an exciting start as they reached the final of the inaugural British Fast5 All-Stars Championships. The Sitec-sponsored Blue & Gold lived up to their pre-tournament promise of playing vibrant and dynamic netball as they treated the crowd to three entertaining contests at London’s O2 Arena. A nail-biting 19-18 win over Team Northumbria and an exciting 34-26 success against Severn Stars, inspired by some long bombs from...
After eight years of preparing Russian and Swedish swimmers for the Olympic Games, world-renowned coach Dr Andrei Vorontsov has returned to the University of Bath to share his expertise with the student team. He has been appointed as Assistant Coach to Head of Swimming Mark Skimming and will work with a talented group of student-athletes that includes British 50m freestyle champion Anna Hopkin, who competed at the World University Games in Taipei last month. Vorontsov...
Liam Broady has become the first Team Bath MCTA Tennis player to reach the quarter-finals of an ATP World Tour singles tournament after a stunning victory over Adrian Mannarino at the St Petersburg Open in Russia. The 23-year-old, coached by Dave Sammel and Ian MacDonald at the University of Bath Sports Training Village, recovered from a set and a break down to win 2-6 6-4 6-0 against the number-four seed from France, whose world-ranking of...
Football coaches from the country’s top clubs have been swapping training pitches for netball courts, bobsleigh tracks and the University of Bath’s world-class sporting environment as part of a Premier League development programme. This year’s new cohort of Elite Coach Apprentice Scheme (ECAS) participants, representing academies from Manchester United and Chelsea to Bristol City and Preston North End, were on campus last Monday and Tuesday for the first residential workshop of the 2017-18 season. They...
After months of training hard and building her confidence at the University of Bath, Army veteran Kelly Ganfield will once again proudly represent her country when she competes at the Invictus Games in Toronto, Canada this month. The 36-year-old, who is visually impaired and suffers from epilepsy, has been selected in a 90-strong British team and will compete in both athletics and rowing – the latter a sport she only took up this year when...
Sporting scholar Cameron Chalmers has become the first University of Bath sportsperson to be officially selected for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. The Sports Performance student, supported by a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship, will represent his native Guernsey in the 400m at the Games, taking place from April 4-15. “It's been a goal of mine ever since starting athletics to go to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games for Guernsey and I'm so...
University of Bath rower Sam Courty will make her senior World Championships debut later this month after being added to the GB Rowing Team squad for the event in Sarasota, Florida. Courty, who only took up rowing while studying Sports & Exercise Science, has been selected in a new-look women’s four with Caragh McMurtry, Beccy Girling and Rowan McKellar after recovering from injury. Fellow graduate Sara Parfett, who studied Biology, has been named as a...
