University of Bath sporting scholar Justin Davies continued his excellent season by winning 800m gold in fine style at the 2025 Microplus UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham. Sunday’s success, which followed on from Davies setting a new Welsh record of 1:45.78 the previous week at the inaugural Keely Klassic, secured the Team Bath AC runner a trip to the Netherlands for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships, taking place in Apeldoorn from 6-9 March....
University of Bath student-athletes won 21 medals, including gold in the swimming pool and on the athletics track, when they proudly represented The SU Bath at the BUCS Nationals 2025 in Sheffield. Sixteen of those medals were secured by the University’s swimming squad during an excellent weekend which saw them place third in the overall rankings. Alumni Fund Sporting Scholar Josh Gammon led the way with gold in both the 50m butterfly (23.72) and 200m...
More than 100 school pupils from across Bath and North East Somerset got to experience sport at the home of Olympic, Paralympic and World Champions when they took part in two fun festivals hosted by Team Bath Tribe. The children in School Years 3&4 got to work on their racket skills with Team Bath Tennis community coaches, practice their passing and shooting with Team Bath Netball NXT Gen League stars Ellie Ervine and Sienna Rutherford,...
A Paris 2024 pentathlete, history-making artistic swimmer and aspiring Olympians in athletics, hockey, sailing and swimming are among an impressive 11 University of Bath student-athletes to be awarded sporting scholarships for the 2024-25 academic year. Charlie Brown, Ranjuo Tomblin, Justin Davies, Patrick McElhinney, Oscar Cawthorne, Joshua Gammon, Dylan Registe and Matt Ward will all benefit from a cash award to help them meet the demands of training, competing and studying at an elite level. Netballer...
A new and improved Student Performance Sport Breakthrough Programme will provide more than 160 University of Bath student-athletes across 25 different sports with bespoke support designed to help them maximise their academic and sporting potential. Supported by Team Bath partners Rengen, the programme offers best-practice personal development and performance support to the students - all identified as having long-term athletic potential – as they seek to make the step up from pre-elite level to sustained...
The Government’s commitment to a £344million investment into Olympic and Paralympic sports over the next four-year cycle, announced in this week's Budget, has been welcomed by UK Sport and its partners, including the University of Bath. It is the equivalent of an extra £9 million a year on Paris-cycle funding levels and Sally Munday, CEO of UK Sport (pictured), said: “We are confident that the amount announced, alongside the excellent support provided by The National...
Bath Building Society is investing in a healthy and active future for children, as well as supporting the goals of aspiring athletes, after coming on board as main partners of the Team Bath youth sports programme. The support of Bath Building Society – this year marking 120 years of service to the local community – will help around 600 young people from the ages of two to 18 get active in a host of sports...
The third annual Make a Move! event proved to be the biggest and best yet as more than 100 young people under the care of Bristol Children’s Hospital enjoyed a host of accessible sports and fun activities. The Team Bath Sports Training Village was once again buzzing as youngsters and their families had a go at archery, athletics, badminton, ball sports, boxing, judo, kin-ball, mini golf, rowing, table tennis, tennis, volleyball and much more. Team...
New research on grassroots sports clubs in England carried out by the University of Bath and commissioned by Access Sport sheds light on the ability of these clubs to give young people a sense of belonging and strengthen communities. Almost all children who took part in the "Building Stronger Communities" study said they felt a sense of belonging and emotional connection when attending inclusive grassroots sports clubs that have been supported by Access Sport’s programmes...
Two more former University of Bath Sporting Scholars, Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz and Alastair Chalmers, have been selected to represent Mexico and Team GB respectively at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It will be a second Games for judoka Awiti-Alcaraz, who competed for Mexico at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She earned automatic qualification for Paris by ranking in the world’s top 20 in the women’s -63kg category after an impressive two years on the international...
