As the countdown to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games continues, athletes with University of Bath links say they can’t wait to compete at the Games. The Opening Ceremony takes place in less than two weeks time on Wednesday 23 July and will be followed by 11 action-packed days of sport featuring 4500 athletes from 71 countries and territories. Some 70 athletes with University of Bath links have been selected for Glasgow 2014, where they will...
Some 70 athletes with University of Bath links have now been selected to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games – including 13 current students and 20 alumni. They will represent 10 countries – England, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Malta, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales – and compete in 10 sports – athletics, badminton, gymnastics, hockey, judo, netball, shooting, swimming, triathlon and weightlifting. The most recent announcements have seen the selection of...
University of Bath sports performance graduate Zoe Shipperley has been named today in the England squad for the Commonwealth Games next month. Defender Shipperley will make her Games debut and has 12 England caps so far. Ten nations will be participating in each of the men’s and women’s hockey competitions at Glasgow 2014. In the preliminary rounds, teams will be split into two pools of five. The top two teams in each pool will progress...
University of Bath student Kirsten McAslan and graduates Gemma Sole and Aileen Davis were today (Thursday) named in Scotland’s biggest team to compete at a Commonwealth Games. McAslan is a Biochemistry student at the University and has been selected as a member of Scotland’s 4x400m relay squad for the Glasgow 2014 Games. She is following in the footsteps of her mum, Fiona (Hargreaves), who competed at Scotland’s last home Games at Edinburgh in 1986 and...
University of Bath student Ben Carless and graduate Lewis Prosser feature in the Welsh men’s hockey team for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. They join Matt Ruxton, who like Carless plays for Team Bath Buccaneers, in the 16-strong squad for the Games. All three players will make their Commonwealth Games debuts in Glasgow – the Wales men’s team last featured at the Manchester Games in 2002. Defender Carless is currently studying for a Mechanical Engineering...
Students and alumni feature among the 32 athletes with University of Bath links selected to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. And with 50 days to go until the start of the Games, many more Bath athletes are expected to win places at this year’s biggest multi-sport event. The 32 selected athletes will represent seven different countries and compete in seven sports at the Glasgow Games, which run from 23 July to 3 August....
University of Bath graduate Zoe Shipperley said she is excited to feature in England’s hockey squad for her first World Cup. Shipperley graduated with a degree in Sports Performance in 2013. During her time in Bath she regularly featured for the successful women’s firsts in British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCCS) campaigns, captaining them in her final year, and she also played for Team Bath Buccaneers. Now with Buckingham, she said she was ‘massively surprised’...
University of Bath Chemistry student Eloise Laity said she was ‘absolutely over the moon’ to be named in the Wales hockey squad for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The first year student joins University of Bath Sport and Exercise Science graduate Emma Batten in the Wales hockey squad for the Games. Laity’s selection comes just two weeks after she made her senior debut for Wales against Canada and just over a year after sustaining a...
Team Bath Buccaneers striker Ed Horler has been named in the England Under 21 squad by head coach John Bleby. Horler recently scored two crucial goals in Team Bath Buccaneer's England Hockey Under 18's Cup Final triumph, one a penalty flick (pictured below). Ed, who attends Millfield School in Somerset, has been playing for Team Bath Buccaneers since he was 7-years-old. He has represented all the junior age group teams, culminating in his appearance at this...
As the Indoor Hockey season comes to a close University of Bath’s Hockey Development Manager Nick Kendall reflects on a successful term for Team Bath Buccaneers’ men. Team Bath Buccaneers’ men secured their fourth promotion in 13 months when they reached the Indoor Premier League in January 2014, something that wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the university. Nick Kendall feels it has been a mutually productive relationship for the university and Team Bath...
