Olympic silver-medallist Samantha Murray has paid an emotional visit to a refugee camp in Jordan to see how sport is having a positive impact on the lives of people displaced by the civil war in Syria. The University of Bath French & Politics graduate, who trains with Pentathlon GB at the Sports Training Village, is one of four Olympic athletes to take part in the Olympic Channel’s Camps To Champs documentary series. Shortly before competing at...
Team Bath Netball will be cheered on by a sell-out crowd when they kick off 2017 by hosting a tri-tournament against fellow Vitality Netball Superleague franchises Loughborough Lightning and Wasps on Saturday. All tickets have been snapped up for the pre-season event, which will see three matches played during one action-packed afternoon at the University of Bath Sports Training Village (doors open 2.30pm, first match at 3pm). It will be the first opportunity for fans...
University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Doyle will kick-start 2017 by competing against Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham. Both Doyle, who won 4x400m relay bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and fellow hurdler Muhammad will contest the 400m flat at the world-class event on February 18. “There is a really big year ahead with the World Championships taking place in London and the Muller Indoor Grand Prix will be...
Three University of Bath student rugby players have been named by England Touch in the open training squads for 2017. Dom Tripp and Will Serocold (pictured), who study Sport & Exercise Science and Sports Performance respectively, have retained their places in the men’s squad after helping England win gold at the 2016 European Touch Rugby Championships. Psychology student Bronte Sykes has been named in the England women’s squad, with the focus in 2017 being on preparing for the newly-formed European...
Outstanding success at the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games plus the visit of sporting and actual royalty ensured that the University of Bath’s 50th anniversary was celebrated in fitting style during 2016. When the University received Royal Charter status on October 25, 1966, there were no sporting facilities on the Claverton Down campus. Five decades later, it has developed into what Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley believes is “the most vibrant, exciting and dynamic sporting...
Team Bath Netball’s Rachel Shaw has been recalled to the England squad for the forthcoming Netball Quad Series against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The first half of the Vitality Netball International Series will be played in Durban, South Africa, before the action moves to England for the concluding matches. The Roses’ U21 squad – coached by Team Bath’s Emily Perry and Denise Ellis, and including University of Bath Sport Performance student Paige Reed...
University of Bath-based swimmers won a terrific 23 medals – 13 of them gold – during four fantastic days of short-course competition at the 2016 ASA National Winter Meet. Leading the way at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, with five titles was Sports Performance graduate Calum Jarvis (pictured left) who struck gold in the 100m butterfly (51.34), 100m freestyle (47.91) and 200m freestyle (1:44.96). He also teamed up with Joseph Hulme, Charlie Attwood and Jay Lelliott to take...
Silver medals for Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold and the two-man bobsleigh crew of Bruce Tasker and Toby Olubi ensured a memorable weekend of international racing for the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA). Yarnold, in just her second race back after a season-long sabbatical, followed up her fourth-placed finish in Whistler a fortnight ago by finishing runner-up to Austria’s Janine Flock at the latest World Cup meeting in Lake Placid. Those...
The depth of talent among student athletes at the University of Bath has been demonstrated once again after 22 potential stars of the future were awarded sporting scholarships for the 2016-17 academic year. Competing in sports as diverse as alpine skiing, clay pigeon shooting, modern pentathlon and rowing, all have demonstrated their potential to succeed both academically and on the national and international sporting stage. Among those selected are Team Bath Netball and England U21...
University of Bath sporting scholar Emma Hurst helped Great Britain win a bronze medal at the Master’U BNP Paribas tennis tournament in France. Barry Scollo, Director of Tennis at Team Bath, was part of the British coaching team for the annual event which sees the world’s top eight university tennis nations battle it out over three days. An exciting start saw Britain edge out host nation France 4-3 in the quarter-finals thanks to a 10-7...
