Team Bath Netball’s Imogen Allison started all three matches as the Vitality Roses recorded a thrilling 2-1 series victory over Commonwealth Games silver-medallists Jamaica in their first matches of the 2023 Netball World Cup year. Allison lined up at wing-defence during an excellent 73-52 victory for England in the opening match at Manchester’s AO Arena on Wednesday. She moved to centre for the weekend’s back-to-back fixtures at London’s Copper Box Arena, which saw the Sunshine...
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...
Team Bath Netball Super League trio Imogen Allison, Tash Pavelin and Jayda Pechova will be on international duty in January after England today named three Vitality Roses squads for matches at the start of a World Cup year. Allison is named in a 16-strong squad for the Roses’ three-match series against Commonwealth Games silver-medallists Jamaica, with fixtures being played at the AO Arena in Manchester (11th January) and London’s Copper Box Arena (14th and 15th...
Team Bath Netball Head Coach Asha Francis says her new-look Super League squad will take plenty of positives from their first pre-season run-out in Saturday’s home tri-tournament. An 800-strong crowd enjoyed three well-contested games at the Team Bath Arena as the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold hosted fellow Super League clubs London Pulse and Saracens Mavericks. It was Pulse who took home the Lyn Gunson Trophy after beating Team Bath 36-26 and Mavericks 40-39, with...
Former Team Bath Netball defender Chani Wopara says she is relishing working with a youthful squad eager to learn and improve after returning to the club as Assistant Super League Coach for the 2023 season. Wopara, who first joined the club at NPL age-group level in 2005, represented the Blue & Gold during the 2012 Super League campaign and helped them reach the semi-finals. Among her team-mates that year was Kadeen Corbin, who has also...
Team Bath Netball’s Tash Pavelin and Jayda Pechova made their first senior England appearances as the Roses narrowly missed out on a medal at the 2022 Fast5 Netball World Series in New Zealand. The Blue & Gold Super League defenders were part of a Roses squad that were just two points behind the hosts at half-time of Sunday’s bronze-medal match before the Silver Ferns pulled away to win 39-25. It had been a different story...
Team Bath Netball Super League players and coaches helped to deliver an empowering day of sport for young girls from Bath and North East Somerset. The Be Inspired Netball Day was a collaboration between Team Bath, Prior Park College, who hosted the event, and St John’s Foundation, one of the UK’s oldest charities, and saw the Blue & Gold stars share their netball knowledge with Year 6 pupils from eight schools in the region, as...
New Team Bath Netball Super League recruit Jayda Pechova has been shortlisted for SportsAid’s prestigious One-to-Watch Award. Previous winners of the honour include Tom Daley, Courtney Tulloch, Amber Hill, Morgan Lake and Alex Yee. Around 1,000 young athletes from 60 different sports receive support from the national charity every year but only 10 are in line for the One-to-Watch Award and Pechova is thrilled to be on that shortlist. “I was so shocked, I didn’t...
Imogen Allison co-captained England to a Test series success and new recruit Bethan Dyke was named as player of the tournament for Wales as Team Bath Netball Super League stars impressed on international duty against Uganda. Mid-courter Allison started at centre in the opening 60-51 victory and then impressed at wing-defence as the Vitality Roses wrapped up a series win by beating the She Cranes 53-45 in match two. The Blue & Gold star, who...
Livewire New Zealand mid-courter Ali Wilshier says she cannot wait to immerse herself in the “family culture” at Team Bath Netball after today being confirmed as the final member of the club’s 2023 Superleague squad. The 23-year-old centre and wing-attack has spent the past two seasons with Southern Steel in the ANZ Premiership, where she established a reputation as a ‘pocket rocket’ with speed and finesse around the attacking circle. Now she is ready to...
