Team Bath, the sports department for the University of Bath, is delighted to announce a new three-year partnership with Bath Building Society. The link-up between two of the city’s most recognised brands, both within the local community and nationally, will see Bath Building Society support sport and fitness at all levels within Team Bath – student, recreational and high-performance. It will also provide additional backing to the Team Bath Netball Superleague team, the University of...
Team Bath Netball finished the regular 2022 Vitality Superleague season on a high note on Saturday as they recorded an excellent 59-46 victory at Saracens Mavericks. It wasn’t the final-day fourth-placed showdown that the fixture looked like being for much of the past few weeks, with the Blue & Gold’s semi-final spot having been secured last weekend, but it was still an important match for building momentum and confidence. Haines Watts-sponsored Team Bath flew out...
She has played a prominent role in the past and present of Team Bath Netball and now Asha Francis is excited to be shaping the club’s future after being appointed as Head Coach. Francis – who won three Superleague titles with Team Bath as a player, including one as captain, and returned to the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold as Technical Coach this season – will take over the reins from the departing Anna Stembridge...
Former World and European Modern Pentathlon Champion Jamie Cooke, who has trained at the University of Bath with Pentathlon GB for the past 14 years, has announced his retirement from competition. The history-making pentathlete has taken up a new role as Head Coach of the Greece national pentathlon squad, which is based at the Olympic Stadium which hosted the Athens 2004 Games. Cooke became the first male Pentathlon GB athlete to win a World title...
University of Bath-based wheelchair fencers were in outstanding form at the IWASF World Cup in Thailand as they secured a huge haul of medals, including a golden clean sweep for Paralympic Champion Piers Gilliver. He started a magnificent week by claiming his first-ever World Cup title in the Category A men’s foil, a discipline in which he is ranked 61st in the world, before emulating his Tokyo 2020 success by winning epee gold the following...
Team Bath Netball's place in the 2022 Vitality Superleague semi-finals has been confirmed following Saracens Mavericks' defeat at Leeds Rhinos on Saturday. The 62-58 reverse, plus Friday's hard-earned 43-41 win over Wasps for Team Bath, means that the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold cannot be caught in fourth place. It continues Team Bath's proud record of qualifying for the semi-finals on all but one occasion since the Superleague's inception back in 2006. They will be...
Team Bath Netball emerged with three vital points from a tight and tense last home match of the 2022 Superleague season against Wasps to take a huge step closer to securing a play-off place. Friday’s 43-41 success in front of a capacity crowd at the Team Bath Arena means the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold are six points clear of fifth-placed Saracens Mavericks, who now must win their penultimate match at Leeds Rhinos on Saturday...
Team Bath Netball attacking duo Kim Borger and Rachel Shaw have today announced they will be retiring at the end of the 2022 Vitality Superleague season. The duo, hugely popular and influential figures both in the Team Bath dressing room and with the Blue & Gold fans, say they are proud of their outstanding contribution to the club’s legacy but are ready to move on to new challenges away from the court. Wing-attack Shaw, who...
Team Bath Netball head into their final home game of the 2022 Vitality Superleague season this week with their play-off fate still in their own hands after digging deep for an important away win over Celtic Dragons on Monday. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold overcame a slow start in Cardiff to build their way back into the game and hold a 14-12 lead after the first quarter. They stretched that to five goals at...
University of Bath-based Olympic Champion Joe Choong made an impressive return to international competition for the first time since winning gold at Tokyo 2020 as he claimed a dramatic silver at the UIPM Modern Pentathlon World Cup in Albena, Bulgaria. Choong, part of the Pentathlon GB high-performance squad at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, took a break after the Olympics but looked in good form all week as he eased through the qualifying and...
