Fresh from their bronze-medal success in the 2022 Vitality Netball Superleague season, two Team Bath netballers have today been named in the Team England squad to play at the Commonwealth Games next month. Layla Guscoth, a doctor at the RUH and originally from the host city of Birmingham, is joined by University of Bath graduate Sophie Drakeford-Lewis in the squad. Both were part of the Roses squad who completed a first away Series win against...
The University of Bath mixed hockey team produced a five-star performance to claim the England Hockey Mixed Tier 2 title when the national finals took place at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on Saturday. They got off to the perfect start on the Olympic pitch, captain Hannah Egerton (Biomedical Sciences) opening the scoring after just two minutes, before Hertfordshire-based opponents Blueharts levelled from a penalty corner midway through the first half. James Smith...
University of Bath alumni and reigning Olympic champions Joe Choong and Kate French were once more in medal winning form at the weekend’s world cup in Ankara, Turkiye, taking gold and bronze respectively in their individual events. A second individual gold came from another Bath Alumna Jess Varley who also trains at the University of Bath Sports Training Village alongside Choong and French and for whom this was a debut individual world cup gold. Varley...
After enjoying a golden Olympic Games last summer, swimmers based at the University of Bath are raring to take on the world again as they begin an action-packed two months of international competition. Six members of the British Swimming Performance Centre Bath squad – including Tokyo 2020 gold-medallists Freya Anderson, Tom Dean, James Guy and Matt Richards – are competing at the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from 17th June to 3rd July....
University of Bath students Alex Clayton and James Pavey have been selected in the England squad for this weekend’s Rugby Europe Men’s Sevens Trophy tournament in Zagreb, Croatia. Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering student Clayton (pictured), supported by the Team Bath Dual Career programme, was a regular starter for the Team Bath men’s 1st XV in BUCS Super Rugby last season while Pavey has just completed his first year of an Accounting and Finance course....
Team Bath Netball goal-keeper Phumza Maweni has been named in the South Africa squad for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. She is joined in the SPAR Proteas squad by former Blue & Gold stars Khanyisa Chawane, Lenize Potgieter and Zanele Vimbela. Maweni excelled for Team Bath during the 2022 season, forging an outstanding defensive partnership with England’s Layla Guscoth, and was voted into the Vitality Superleague All-Star VII by her fellow netballers. She was also...
They were Olympic gold-medal swimming team-mates in the 4x200m freestyle relay in Tokyo a year ago, now they’re wrapped in the flag of the Welsh dragon and heading together to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Matt Richards and Calum Jarvis (pictured right and left of James Guy during the Tokyo Olympics) were named today in a 20-strong Welsh swimming team for the Games. They will be joined in the Midlands in July by Kieran Bird,...
Team Bath Netball’s players, coaches, support staff and sponsors gathered at the Apex Hotel in Bath on Tuesday to celebrate the 2022 Vitality Superleague campaign with an end-of-season dinner and awards night. As well as reflect on an eventful league season, which finished on a high with Sunday’s win in the bronze-medal match against London Pulse, it was also a chance to mark some standout achievements by Blue & Gold stars during the year. England...
University of Bath students Orlando Bailey and Max Ojomoh have been named in the England Rugby squad for a three-day training camp ahead of this summer’s tour of Australia. Sports Performance graduate Freddie Clarke has also received his first senior call-up and is in a 35-strong squad attending this week’s camp, being held in Teddington from Tuesday to Thursday. All three players will be looking to impress and earn a place in the match-day 23...
University of Bath graduate Kirsty Way won double gold when she represented British Gymnastics at the 2022 Trampoline, Tumbling & DMT European Championships in Rimini, Italy. Way, who still receives physio and sport science support at the University through the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS), topped the qualification rankings and then scored 27.200 in the women’s double-mini trampoline (DMT) final to secure the second individual European title of her career. “I can’t believe it,” said...
