Team Bath Dual Career student-athletes Jenny Hesketh, China Kill and Gabriella Nigrelli have been named in the starting XV for the first England Rugby Women U20s Test match since July 2019. The University of Bath students, who all play Allianz Premier 15s rugby for Bristol Bears, will line up against Scotland Futures at Darlington Arena on Saturday 19 March (2pm). It is the first of three matches for the U20s, who also travel to Evreux,...
Freya Anderson completed a freestyle hat-trick and there were also wins for Jono Adam, Tom Dean, James Guy, Ben Proud and Brodie Williams as University of Bath-based swimmers impressed at the Edinburgh International Swim Meet 2022. Olympic gold-medallist Anderson, coached by David McNulty at the British Swimming National Centre Bath, was victorious on each of the three days across the women's 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle contests. The highlight of her triple win came in...
Team Bath Netball were once again left to rue a run of goals against them in the final quarter as they went down 53-44 at home to defending champions Loughborough Lightning in the Vitality Superleague on Monday. An enthralling game featuring big momentum swings had seen the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold trail by five, then lead by as many at the end of quarter one before ending both the second and third periods with...
Team Bath Netball put some all-important points on the board in the hunt for a 2022 Vitality Superleague top-four finish with a convincing home win against Welsh franchise Celtic Dragons at the Team Bath Arena on Sunday. After labouring to eke out a lead in the opening two quarters, despite some clever passages of play, the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold unleashed a controlled attack to score 10 unanswered goals in the third period, going...
University of Bath student Justin Davies helped GB win mixed relay silver when he represented his country at the FISU World University Cross-Country Championships in Aveiro, Portugal on Saturday. Davies, who studies Biomedical Sciences and is supported by the Team Bath Dual Career programme, ran the fourth and final 2km leg of a race ran in heavy rain and maintained GB’s hold on second spot to bring the team home in 35:23, 20 seconds behind...
Team Bath will have to play the waiting game to see if they have qualified for the end-of-season play-offs after being edged out 19-15 at Swansea in their last BUCS Super Rugby league game of the 2021-22 season. It was a hard-fought encounter in Wales on Wednesday, with the Rengen-sponsored visitors holding a narrow 15-14 lead with just over 10 minutes remaining. A third Swansea try of the evening meant they took the win but...
Serena Guthrie has thanked the Team Bath Netball fans for their “unwavering support” throughout her illustrious career after today announcing that she is pregnant and retiring from playing at elite level. The Blue & Gold legend – who first came to the club as a prodigiously talented 13-year-old from Jersey and developed into arguably the greatest mid-courter of her generation – had planned to hang up her bib after captaining England at this summer’s Commonwealth...
Team Bath head to Swansea for their live-streamed last match of the 2021-22 BUCS Super Rugby league season on Wednesday (7pm), searching for a win to boost their hopes of a top-eight finish. The Rengen-sponsored men’s 1st XV currently occupy the final play-off spot and are six points clear of ninth-placed Leeds Beckett, who have two games in hand – including their own trip to Swansea next Wednesday (16th). Team Bath make six changes to...
Team Bath Tennis player Alicia Barnett and partner Olivia Nicholls reached their first WTA Tour women’s doubles final at their first attempt during a fantastic week at the Lyon Open in France. The duo continued the fine form that has seen them win a host of titles on the ITF circuit as they beat number three seeds Irina Bara and Ekaterine Gorgodze 6-3 6-4 in the first round before easing to a 6-0 6-4 victory...
Team Bath Dual Career athlete Justin Davies has been called into the British team for this week’s World University Cross-Country Championships in Aveiro, Portugal. Davies, who studies Biomedical Sciences at the University of Bath and is coached by Martin Rush, will compete in the mixed relay event on Saturday. He has been in fine form this season, recording a top-five finish at the Tri-County Cross-Country Championships just before Christmas and winning 1,500m silver while wearing...
