University of Bath graduate Amy Wilson Hardy captained England Women to a third-placed finish at the Rugby Europe Grand Prix Sevens Series in Malemort, France on Sunday. The side, playing as GB Lions, won two of their three Pool C matches and then overcame a Wales side – playing as GB Royals – 14-5 in the quarter-finals. England then led France 19-17 with three seconds left on the clock in the semi-final, only for the...
Former Team Bath Netball captain Asha Francis is among eight coaches from across the South West region to have been selected for the Team Bath Netball Apprentice Coach Programme for the 2016-17 season. They were all identified as having the potential, drive, determination and commitment to work with players in a performance environment after a selection process that involved interviews and practical sessions. The Blue and Gold coaching workforce is growing this season to cope...
University of Bath graduate Amy Wilson Hardy will wear the captain’s armband when the final round of the Rugby Europe Grand Prix Sevens Series takes place in Malemort, France this weekend. She is one of three England players who represented Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in a squad that also features a number of debutants. While England players were part of two mixed GB squads for the first leg of the series...
The University of Bath men’s rugby team were crowned as Red Bull 7s champions for a third year running after recording another dramatic last-gasp win in front of a 13,500-strong crowd at The Rec on Saturday. Levi Davis, who had touched down earlier in the game, set up a try for James Catlin in the dying seconds that was converted as the University came from behind to beat Cardiff Met 21-19. The entertaining match –...
Rio 2016 Olympians Ben Fletcher and Natalie Powell are among the international judoka putting on a Team Bath Masterclass this week to help fund surgery for University of Bath student Jemima Duxberry. Fletcher (pictured) - a sporting ambassador for MJ Church - will return to his home dojo at the Sports Training Village to provide a fun judo session for under-16s alongside fellow GB international Powell from 6.45pm to 8.15pm on Thursday [September 22]. They...
An exciting new era of university rugby is kicking off this season – and the University of Bath will be playing a leading role. The men’s 1st XV has today been named in the inaugural BUCS Super Rugby league, featuring the top eight rugby-playing higher-education institutions in England and Wales. The competition – organised by BUCS [British Universities and Colleges Sport] and supported by the Rugby Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union – has...
University of Bath student Lloyd Wallace finished his summer season in style by soaring to a top-ten finish at the World Water-Ramp Aerial Series Final. The competition – staged at the spectacular £30million training centre in Minsk, Belarus, featuring the world’s only indoor water-ramp – featured the world’s best aerial skiers. Wallace, pictured with coach Mich Roth, needed to finish in the top 12 to reach the main final and produced a score of 109.38 for...
Paul Blake will be bringing two Rio 2016 Paralympic Games medals back to his University of Bath training base after adding T36 800m silver to his 400m gold on Saturday. Training partner Sophie Kamlish was just six-hundredths of a second away from also getting on the podium on a day that saw her smash the T44 100m world record. And University of Bath graduate Alexandra Rickham emulated her achievements from London 2012 as she and...
A long international season that included a trip to Rio 2016 came to an end for University of Bath student Joe Choong at the 2016 Junior World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Cairo, Egypt. The 21-year-old, making his last appearance at junior level, was the only Pentathlon GB athlete to reach the men’s individual final and was well placed in sixth after strong performances in the fencing and the swim. However, the exertions of a season...
Paul Blake today joined the ranks of University of Bath-based athletes to be crowned as Paralympic Champion as he won the T36 400m title at Rio 2016 – ParalympicsGB’s 50th gold medal of the Games. Blake, coached by Rob Ellchuk at the Sports Training Village, upgraded on the silver he won at London 2012 in emphatic style as he stormed away from the field in the last 100m to win in a season’s best time...
