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...
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...
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...
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...
Team Bath Netball will have another capacity crowd behind them on Friday when they take on Manchester Thunder in their final home match of the 2023 Netball Super League season. A club-record 12,200 tickets have been sold for the eight fixtures at the Team Bath Arena this year and it will be a full house once again when the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold face the defending champions live on Sky Sports (7.30pm centre-pass). Asha Francis, Team Bath Netball Head...
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...
The two sides went toe-to-toe in a thrilling contest in front of a boisterous crowd at the Team Bath Arena. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold finally prevailed in an end-to-end game with Celtic Dragons, with Team Bath clinching the win, 56 to Celtic Dragons’ 53. Dragons, who this week appointed former Australian Diamonds captain and coach Jill McIntosh as their new Head Coach, competed well and went into the first quarter four goals up....
A tenacious Team Bath Netball performance meant London Pulse had to fight all the way for a win which takes them top of the 2023 Netball Super League table. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold, roared on by another 1,400-strong crowd at the Team Bath Arena, trailed 17-10 at the end of the first period but there was little between the sides during the next two captivating quarters as the hosts went toe-to-toe with their...
