The University of Bath men’s 1st XV completed their first win double of the 2024-25 BUCS Super Rugby season as they recorded an impressive 41-27 victory at Durham. Bath went into Wednesday’s match having played just once in the previous month due to last week’s fixture at Nottingham being snowed off and found themselves trailing 20-7 as the first half drew to a close, their points coming from a penalty try. However, a Tyler Offiah...
Season and match tickets for Team Bath Netball’s eagerly-awaited 2025 NXT Gen League fixtures are going on sale this week. There will be six matches to enjoy at the Team Bath Arena and, with a limited number of tickets available, fans are encouraged to secure their seats early as a new era begins for the Blue & Gold. There are two price bands – Gold seating, around the halfway line, and Blue seating – and concession rates...
Matt Weston went within one-hundredth of a second of winning gold and in-form Freya Tarbit bagged bronze as University of Bath-based British Skeleton athletes continued their excellent start to the 2024-25 IBSF World Cup season in Beijing. Weston, having won back-to-back bronze medals on the opening weekend in PyeongChang, led after the first run on the 2022 Winter Olympic Games track but was narrowly overhauled on the second run by Germany’s Christopher Grotheer, who claimed...
An 18-medal haul, including a golden hat-trick from Joshua Gammon, ensured University of Bath student swimmers enjoyed their strongest performance for many years at the 2024 BUCS Short Course Championships. The women’s team finished second and the men’s team were third as Bath secured a top-three finish overall with 710 points after an excellent weekend of racing at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. Sports Performance student Gammon (pictured top), fresh from being named in the Aquatics...
Ninety young netballers from across the South West of England have today been named in Team Bath Netball’s talent-packed age-group squads for the 2024-25 season. The U17s and U19s will compete on the national NPL (Netball Performance League) stage, with both their campaigns starting on Saturday 23rd November with home matches against Loughborough Lightning at Chellaram Sports Complex in Bristol. There is no U21 NPL competition this season, following the formation of the NXT Gen...
Five Paris 2024 medallists were among the Olympians and Paralympians whose achievements were celebrated at a special homecoming reception at the University of Bath. The athletes all train, study or studied at the University, one of the country’s leading institutions for high-performance sport, and were joined at the gathering by staff, coaches and civic representatives from Bath and Somerset. Double Paralympic Champion Dimitri Coutya (wheelchair fencing) and Olympic gold-medallist Kieran Bird (swimming) were in attendance...
University of Bath-based skeleton athletes won six medals, including gold for Amelia Coltman and Freya Tarbit, as Great Britain made a sensational start to the 2024-25 IBSF Skeleton World Cup season in PyeongChang, South Korea. Coltman kicked off the new campaign in style by winning the opening women's race on Saturday to claim her first-ever World Cup medal at the home of Lizzy Yarnold’s Olympic triumph in 2018. Tarbit missed out on a podium place...
Another historic year for University of Bath sporting scholar Kate Shortman and partner Izzy Thorpe was recognised when they once again shared the Artistic Swimming Athlete of the Year honour at The Aquatics GB Awards 2024. Bill Whiteley Scholar Shortman, who studies International Management and Modern Languages (French), and Thorpe claimed Britain's first-ever Olympic and World Championship medals in the duet events during an incredible year. The stunning artistic swimming achievements of Shortman and Thorpe...
University of Bath student-athlete Joshua Gammon will make his first appearance on the senior global stage when he represents Aquatics GB at the World Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships in Budapest next month. The Sports Performance student has joined the Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre this season and will be competing in Hungary alongside two of his new training partners, fellow butterfly specialist Jacob Peters and Tokyo Olympic champion Freya Anderson. Gammon, who made his...
Captain Max Pearce (pictured) scored a hat-trick of tries as the University of Bath men’s 1st XV returned from their two-week BUCS Super Rugby break in style by beating Swansea 57-19 at the Team Bath Sports Training Village. The hosts were without several players who have been representing Bath Rugby in the Premiership Rugby Cup but demonstrated their strength in depth by running in nine tries during an excellent squad performance. Oli Sedgwick opened the...
