They may not have quite held on for victory at LexisNexis Dragons but Team Bath Netball will take plenty of positives into this week’s home match against NXT Gen League leaders Loughborough Lightning. The Blue & Gold, fresh from recording their first win of the season against Birmingham Panthers, travelled to Cardiff with a depleted defence through injury and unavailability but produced an excellent team effort to overcome those challenges. They led 17-11 after the...
The University of Bath men’s 1st XV have been crowned as BUCS Super Rugby league champions for the first time in the competition’s 10-year history. A superbly executed 17-7 away win at Durham, Bath’s 11th successive victory, ensured Aaron James’ men finished two points clear of previous champions Loughborough at the top of the table. “It’s been a long time and we’ve been building, building, building towards this,” said an emotional James after the match....
Louie Hennessey became the latest University of Bath BUCS Super Rugby player to make his senior international debut when he took to the field for Wales in their Men's Six Nations Championship match against Ireland. The 21-year-old centre, who studied Sports Performance and graduated last summer, came on as a second-half replacement during Friday’s battling 27-17 defeat in Dublin. He was the second Bath graduate to be introduced from the bench after prop Archie Griffin...
Team Bath Tennis ace Toby Samuel has risen into the world’s top 200 for the first time after winning the third ATP Challenger Tour title of his career in Hersonsissos, Greece. Samuel, coached by Ian MacDonald and Tiarnan Brady at the University of Bath, dropped just one set across five matches and was particularly dominant in the closing stages of the tournament, beating home player Stefanos Sakellaridis 6-2 6-0 in the semi-finals before securing the...
An excellent all-round performance ensured Team Bath Netball secured their first win of the 2026 NXT Gen League season with a 54-51 home victory over Birmingham Panthers. It was nip and tuck throughout an absorbing evening at a sold-out Team Bath Arena, with neither side able to build a significant lead until the dying minutes when a surge of defensive pressure combined with clinical finishing in attack allowed the hosts to make a decisive break....
An epic comeback victory in front of a boisterous home crowd saw the University of Bath men’s 1st XV leapfrog Loughborough to go top of the BUCS Super Rugby table with just one game to go. The 40-31 win at The Yard, aka the Team Bath Sports Training Village 3G Pitch, means Bath can secure their first-ever BUCS Super Rugby league title with victory at fourth-placed Durham on Wednesday 11th March (6.30pm). Head of Rugby...
A hard-earned bonus point victory in Swansea for the University of Bath men’s 1st XV has perfectly teed up a huge top-of-the-table clash against BUCS Super Rugby title rivals Loughborough. The 26-17 win in South Wales means second-placed Bath, sponsored by Bath Building Society, stay within a point of the league leaders going into the potential title decider at the Team Bath Sports Training Village on Wednesday 4th March (6.30pm kick-off, free to watch). Bath...
University of Bath Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley has hailed the “phenomenal” achievements of the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) athletes who represented Team GB at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games. Matt Weston became Britain's most decorated male Winter Olympian when he won two skeleton golds in three days, following up his emphatic victory in the men’s race with a historic triumph alongside Tabby Stoecker in the first-ever Olympic mixed team event. Freya...
Bath skier Hester Poole has been selected to represent ParalympicsGB at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games, which take place in Italy from 6th to 15th March. The 18-year-old will race in the visually impaired class Para Alpine events, partnered by guide Ali Hall with whom she has skied since 2023. Hester is a familiar face around the Team Bath Sports Training Village (STV), where she has trained and enjoyed sport for almost a decade....
The University of Bath-based British Fencing squad won five medals when Italy hosted the first Para Fencing World Cup of 2026. Dimitri Coutya took Category B foil gold and epee bronze in Pisa, beating home favourite Michele Massa 15-13 in the foil final, and fellow Paralympic gold-medallist Piers Gilliver won Category A epee silver. There were also bronze medals for Oliver Lam-Watson and Gemma Collis in Category A sabre and epee respectively. Britain fielded 13...
