Team Bath’s opening match of the 2022-23 BUCS Super Rugby season ended in a frustrating single-point defeat as Cardiff claimed the spoils from the last play of the game at the Team Bath Sports Training Village. An 800-strong Freshers’ Week crowd saw the men’s 1st XV, sponsored by Bath Building Society, battle back from a 17-7 half-time deficit to lead 21-17 as George Doel and Max Pearce added to an early try from co-captain Alfie...
Wheelchair fencers based at the University of Bath won four gold medals and a silver during another hugely-impressive weekend at the IWASF Leaning Tower World Cup in Pisa, Italy. Dimitri Coutya topped the podium in every event he contested, dominating both the Category B epee and foil competitions before joining forces with training partners Piers Gilliver, Oliver Lam-Watson and Joshua Waddell to win the men’s team foil title. Paralympic Champion Gilliver also claimed gold in...
Team Bath men’s 1st XV are approaching the new season with renewed “vim and vigour” as they prepare to start their 2022-23 BUCS Super Rugby campaign with a Freshers’ Week home match. Cardiff will provide the opposition at the Team Bath Sports Training Village on Wednesday 28th September (6.30pm kick-off) and entry is free to spectators, with the club hoping for a big crowd as a new influx of students enjoy their first few days...
Tash Pavelin has received her first senior international call-up as she joins fellow Team Bath Netball Superleague player Imogen Allison in the England squad for October’s home Vitality International Series against Uganda She Cranes. Pavelin and Blue & Gold new girl Jayda Pechova have also been named in the Vitality Roses squad for November’s FAST5 Netball World Series in New Zealand, while Allison is in the group that will head to Australia to face the...
The University of Bath has been named the University of the Year by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023. The guide scores universities across a number of criteria, including student satisfaction with the quality of their teaching, graduate job prospects, entry standards and research quality. This year Bath’s score increased in almost every category to help clinch the ‘University of the Year’ title. Of particular note was Bath’s very strong performance in student experience and employability, with the...
Charlie Follett struck individual and team gold, and fellow University of Bath alumna Jo Muir won silver as Pentathlon GB’s women excelled at the 2022 Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. Olympic Champion Kate French and recent Bath graduate Myles Pillage also dominated the mixed relay competition, winning the title in impressive style. Psychology graduate Follett was in fantastic form all week and built on her outstanding fencing performance in the ranking round, where...
Double Olympic champion Helen Glover has been selected as part of Great Britain's first home team for a World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals, with the 2022 edition taking place in Saundersfoot, Wales from 14-16 October. Glover, who began her celebrated rowing career with the GB Rowing Team Start talent development programme at the University of Bath, will contest the women's single sculls on the Pembrokeshire coast. “I’m really enjoying trying something new and to take...
An England women's squad featuring University of Bath student Grace Crompton and graduate Amy Wilson Hardy had to settle for an eighth-placed finish at the Rugby World Cup 7s tournament in South Africa. Both players were on the scoresheet during Friday's 29-5 win over Spain, which was preceded by a period of silence following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A tough 21-0 defeat to Australia in the Championship Quarter-final sent England into...
The University of Bath community joins the rest of the nation in mourning the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Our thoughts are with the Royal family at this difficult time, especially with our Chancellor, His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex Prince Edward, on the loss of his mother. Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Bath, and Deputy Lieutenant for Somerset, Professor Ian White, said: “As a University we are deeply saddened...
Young people under the care of Bristol Children’s Hospital got to try out a wide range of sports including skeleton, rowing, climbing and archery when the first-ever Make a Move! event took place at the Team Bath Sports Training Village on Saturday. Olympic Champion Amy Williams and Paralympic medallists Dimitri Coutya, Andy Lewis and Stephanie Millward were among the inspirational sports stars who helped the youngsters and their families get active during a fun-packed day....
