University of Bath sporting scholar Alanna Pullen has followed up her Netball World Youth Cup selection by being awarded a 2026 Super League contract by Birmingham Panthers. It comes after a standout season for the dynamic attacking mid-courter with Team Bath Netball, where she started every game as the Blue & Gold finished runners-up in the inaugural NXT Gen League campaign. Pullen - a Sports Performance student supported an Alumni Fund Scholarship - also excelled...
University of Bath graduate Natasha Hunt is aiming to win a second Women’s Rugby World Cup title with England – and this time on home soil. The 2025 tournament kicks off on Friday 22nd August with the host nation taking on the United States at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light, live on BBC1. Hunt will win her 83rd cap in the match, having been selected at scrum-half, and is one of four players in the Red...
The partnership between the University of Bath and Bath Rugby continues to go from strength to strength as three talented front-row players have become the latest current students to formally join the Premiership champions' Academy pathway. Claudius Wheeler, who studies Biomedical Sciences, and Sports Performance students Alfie Griffin and Henry Mountford have all played a prominent role for the University’s BUCS Super Rugby side in recent seasons. Their form has earned them scholarship agreements with...
Team Bath Netball’s Alanna Pullen and University of Bath sporting scholar Sophie Kelly have been named in the England U21 squad for the 2025 Netball World Youth Cup, taking place in Gibraltar from 19-28 September. Trendell Sporting Scholar Jayda Pechova is a non-travelling reserve for the tournament, which features the top 20 teams in the world and sees England take on Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Tonga and Wales in the group stages. Pullen, a dynamic wing-attack...
Young players from four English Football League (EFL) clubs have benefited from pre-season training camps at the University of Bath’s elite sporting facilities – and got to experience a potential post-Academy student-athlete career. The U18 squads from Crewe Alexandra, Grimsby Town, Huddersfield Town and Millwall each spent a week in campus accommodation while training at the University’s Sports Training Village as part of their preparations for the 2025-26 season. As well as train and play...
The University of Bath, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh, has conducted the most extensive growth and maturation study in world football, helping reshape talent development pathways for young players in Scotland. Commissioned by the Scottish Football Association (SFA) and completed between January and April 2024, the research, published in the Journal of Sports Sciences, evaluated over 1,000 academy players in the Club Academy Scotland (CAS) system - making it the largest study of...
Tom Dean has added a fifth global gold to his medal collection after helping Aquatics GB win another men’s 4x200m freestyle relay title at the Singapore 2025 World Aquatics Championships. The Bath Performance Centre Swimmer anchored GB to victory in the morning heats before cheering fellow Olympic Champions Matt Richards, James Guy, Jack McMillan and Duncan Scott to gold in the final. It is a second World Championships gold and eighth medal at the event...
