Members of the British Swimming Performance Centre based at the University of Bath are ready for round two of a hectic summer of major championships as they go for gold at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. After racing at the World Championships in Budapest last month, Freya Anderson, Tom Dean, James Guy, Jacob Peters and Brodie Williams have been back in training in the 50m pool at the Team Bath Sports Training Village for the...
Four years after England won Commonwealth netball gold for the first time, Team Bath players past and present are excited at the prospect of making their own history with the Vitality Roses at Birmingham 2022. England will have the unique experience of being defending champions at a major international tournament as well as the expectation that comes with being the host nation. However, there are several players in the squad who will be stepping onto...
One is an Olympian and Commonwealth Games medallist, the other is less than a year into her international rugby career but Amy Wilson Hardy and Grace Crompton have more in common than just being England 7s team-mates for Birmingham 2022. The University of Bath has been home to both, with Wilson Hardy graduating from Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in 2015 while Crompton is a current Team Bath Dual-Career student-athlete. She has just completed the...
National records and savouring the experience of representing their country on a major stage are the main goals of two members of the University of Bath student swimming squad competing at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Butterfly specialist Johnpaul Balloqui (left in picture) will be swimming for Gibraltar at the Games when the swimming competition starts on Friday 29th July, while sprinter Markos Iakovidis (right) will join older brother and Bath alumnus Filippos in the...
A trio of University of Bath students past and present will be proudly representing Guernsey on the athletics track at the newly-refurbished Alexander Stadium during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Chalmers brothers, Alastair and Cameron, will be competing in the 400m hurdles and 400m respectively. Both studied Sports Performance at Bath and are full GB internationals, with Alastair a semi-finalist at last week’s IAAF World Championships in Oregon and Cameron competing at the Tokyo...
Having been part of the Queen’s Baton Relay, University of Bath postgraduate student Holly Munro is set to complete her personal Commonwealth Games journey by representing Wales in hockey at Birmingham 2022. Munro, who completes a two-year Masters course in Applied Forensic Psychology with Counselling this month, carried the baton when it came through the Welsh city of Newport on its way to the opening ceremony for the Games, which is taking place on Thursday...
Team Bath’s Imogen Allison has been added to the England Netball squad for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, which start at the end of the month. Mid-courter Allison, who captained the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold to a bronze medal during the 2022 Vitality Superleague season, replaces Beth Cobden, who has had to withdraw from the 12-strong Roses squad through injury. Allison, who has represented England in all age groups, is the third member of...
Netball South Africa are training at the University of Bath as they begin to finalise their preparations for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, now just a fortnight away. As well as train on the indoor courts at the £35million Team Bath Sports Training Village, the SPAR Proteas players are using the gym facilities for strength and conditioning sessions, hydro pool for recovery and judo dojo for yoga. They and the support staff are also staying...
Team Bath Dual Career student-athlete Grace Crompton and University of Bath alumna Amy Wilson Hardy have today been named in the Team England women’s rugby 7s squad for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. It is a second Commonwealths for Rio Olympian Wilson Hardy, who helped England win bronze on the Gold Coast in Australia four years ago, but a first major championships for Sports Management & Coaching student Crompton. Selection continues a fantastic 18 months...
Team Bath Netball’s Betsy Creak has continued her inspirational rise through the netball ranks after being named in the Wales squad for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. It’s just three years since Creak, who plays goal-shooter and goal-attack, was playing student and club netball in Bristol before deciding to see if she could progress her career by attending open trials with the Wales national team. She impressed so much that she was selected to make...
