GB debutant Niamh Ward and quartet of Bath sporting scholars named in British squad for European U23 Swimming Champs
Five University of Bath students are among the 20-strong squad selected to represent Aquatics GB at the second edition of the European Aquatics U23 Swimming Championships.
Making her British debut is Civil Engineering student Niamh Ward (pictured), a member of the Student Performance Sport swimming squad who has won multiple backstroke medals for the University in BUCS competition. Supported in her dual careers by the Team Bath Breakthrough Programme, Ward began her career with the Team Bath AS community swimming club.
She will be joined in Samorin, Slovakia by a quartet of sporting scholars who train with the Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre – Cam Brooker (Mechanical Engineering, Ivor Powell Scholar), Joshua Gammon (Sports Performance, Alumni Fund), Jack Skerry (Computer Science, US Foundation) and Matthew Ward (Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Bill Whiteley).
Making his GB senior coaching debut but no stranger to international competition is Calum Jarvis, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic relay gold-medallist who now works alongside Lead Coach David McNulty at the Bath Performance Centre where he trained for 13 years.
The European Aquatics U23 Swimming Championships will take place from 26th to 28th June.
Visit teambath.com/swimming to find out more about the swimming programme at the University of Bath.
