University of Bath student Lowri Windsor and fellow Team Bath Netball player Poppy Tydeman have been named in the Team Wales netball squad for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Team Bath Academy and NXT Gen Head Coach Natalie Roddy will also be travelling to Scotland as Assistant Coach to Bath alumna Emily Handyside. Selection in the Wales 12 continues a rapid rise for Sports Performance student Windsor, who has just completed her first year of...
Sprinter Aleeya Sibbons has become the latest University of Bath-based athlete to be officially selected for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Sibbons, coached by Colin Bovell, has been named in the Team England women’s 4x100m relay squad along with Amy Hunt, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Daryll Neita and Dina Asher-Smith. It will be a first major championship for former sporting scholar Sibbons, who first began training at the University when she started an Architecture degree course in...
Middle-distance athlete Justin Davies and netballer Jayda Pechova are the latest University of Bath sporting scholars to be officially selected to compete at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Biomedical Sciences student Davies, who is supported by an Alumni Fund Scholarship and coached by Martin Rush at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, will represent Team Wales in the 800m, an event in which he holds the national record both indoors and outdoors. Trendell Sporting Scholar...
University of Bath sporting scholar Matthew Ward will be proudly representing the host country at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games this summer after being selected in Team Scotland’s 25-strong swimming squad. It will be a first senior Games for Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering student Ward, who is Scotland’s most successful Commonwealth Youth after winning four gold medals and three silver at Trinbago 2023. The Bill Whiteley Scholar secured his place at Glasgow by setting a...
Sporting scholars Cameron Brooker and Jack Skerry and fellow swimmer Jacob Peters have today become the first University of Bath-based athletes to be officially selected for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. The trio, who all train in the University’s 50m pool with the Aquatics GB Bath Performance Centre, have been named in a 28-strong Team England swimming squad for the Games, taking place in Scotland from 23rd July to 2nd August. It will be a...
The University of Bath’s status as a UK Sport-accredited Elite Training Centre (ETC) has been officially recognised at a ceremony attended by Olympic and Paralympic Champions, high-performance coaches and staff. Professor Ian White, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath, received the prestigious ETC award from Sally Munday, Chief Executive of UK Sport, during a presentation in the Team Bath Sports Training Village. Joining Team Bath staff at the ceremony were athletes, coaches and administrators from...
The University of Bath has today been recognised by UK Sport for its contribution to the preparation of elite Olympic and Paralympic athletes. It is one of the first of just eight institutions nationwide to be awarded the status of “UK Sport-accredited Elite Training Centre”, a title that celebrates its role in helping Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes achieve their full performance potential. Dr Kate Baker, Director of Performance at UK Sport, said: “Our Elite...
Netballer Emma Payne has been voted by their fellow student-athletes as the University of Bath Sports Personality of the Year in the 2023 Blues Awards. The Sport and Exercise Science student was recognised for her contribution to the University’s netball club over the past four years, which has seen her serve as Chair this year alongside helping the 1st team reach the BUCS National Championships final. She also plays for Team Bath Netball U21s in the NPL division and has...
World, European and Commonwealth champions were crowned, more than 100 international medals were won and new elite training centres were opened during another unforgettable year of sport at the University of Bath. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games saw 37 sportspeople who train, study or studied at the University of Bath – named as the University of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 – compete across nine different sports...
History-making athletes who train, study or studied at the University of Bath finished the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games with a fantastic 33 medals between them– seven gold, 17 silver and nine bronze. They came across three different sports – a first-ever athletics medal for Guernsey from Sports Performance alumnus Alastair Chalmers; two brilliant judo medals for Team Bath’s Rhys Thompson and Sports & Exercise Science alumna Gemma Howell; and an incredible 30-medal haul in the...
