Head Coach Asha Francis wants her Team Bath Netball players to recognise and celebrate their moments of brilliance after they wrapped up their 2023 Super League season. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold were beaten 82-57 at semi-finalists Loughborough Lightning in their final game on Friday but produced some excellent netball at times, particularly during a second quarter that the hosts only edged 21-19. All 12 members of the travelling squad got out on court...
Team Bath Netball conclude their 2023 Super League season tonight as they started it – by taking on Loughborough Lightning in front of the Sky Sports cameras (7.30pm centre-pass). The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold were beaten on the opening day by a clinical Lightning outfit but Head Coach Asha Francis hopes her players will be able to show how far they have progressed since then. “We have absolutely nothing to lose and we definitely...
University of Bath sporting scholar Jayda Pechova has been rewarded for her excellent debut Super League season with Team Bath Netball by being promoted to the senior Vitality Roses ranks for the 2023-24 international season. The 18-year-old defender joins fellow Blue & Gold star Imogen Allison in the 24-strong England programme, while fellow teenager Phoebe Maslen and Tash Pavelin have both been selected for the Future Roses development squad. Pechova, who is supported by a Trendell Sporting Scholarship as she combines her...
It’s time to have your say – who is YOUR Team Bath Netball Most Valuable Player for the 2023 Super League season? The fans’ player of the season accolade is the one that all the players want to win and there are plenty of candidates for this year’s prize. To cast your vote, simply choose your favourite from the players listed below who have all represented Team Bath during this Super League season. Voting closes on Sunday 11th June at...
Asha Francis was delighted to see her players’ “freedom and faith” rewarded with a first away win of the 2023 Super League season as Team Bath Netball came out on top in a close contest with Saracens Mavericks. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold and their old rivals went goal for goal in front of the Sky Sports cameras, with just a couple of goals separating the sides for much of the contest, before clinically...
Team Bath Netball head to Saracens Mavericks today (Monday) looking for a response to their game of two contrasting halves at Leeds Rhinos on Saturday. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold looked on course for their first away win of the 2023 Netball Super League season as they stormed into a 36-25 lead at the end of an excellent first half. However, the hosts grabbed the momentum during a third period which they won 17-7...
After wrapping up their home campaign, Team Bath Netball have three away trips left in the 2023 Super League season – two of which are coming up this Saturday and Monday (20th and 22nd). The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold visit the Allam Sports Centre in Hull to face Leeds Rhinos on Saturday (3pm centre-pass). The match is being live-streamed by Sky Sports, watch via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH0sn7svGkg Team Bath then head to the Hertfordshire...
The University of Bath is proud to reaffirm its commitment to clean sport by backing UK Anti-Doping’s (UKAD’s) 2023 Clean Sport Week campaign, taking place from 22nd to 26th May. Clean Sport Week is UKAD’s national awareness week championing clean sport, education and anti-doping initiatives with sports across the UK, and this year’s theme is “Teamwork in Clean Sport”. Athletes are central to the team, responsible for making sure they compete clean – it's their...
Team Bath Netball’s Imogen Allison has been named in the England squad for the 2023 Netball World Cup, taking place in South Africa from 28th July to 6th August. It will be a first senior World Cup for the dynamic mid-courter, who helped England win bronze at the World Youth Cup in 2017. Allison has won 28 senior caps since making her Vitality Roses debut in 2020 and was a standout performer on her previous...
Team Bath Netball treated another capacity crowd to arguably their best performance of the season so far as they narrowly lost out 67-63 to defending Netball Super League champions Manchester Thunder. A memorable last home game of the 2023 season saw the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold provide a 1,700-strong crowd in the Team Bath Arena with plenty to cheer as they took a 38-33 lead into half-time. Thunder used all of their experience to...
