More than 4,000 spectators enjoyed an action-packed day of student sport at the Team Bath Sports Training Village when the University of Bath took on Cardiff Met University in the long-awaited return of Varsity. And the hosts made it five wins in a row as they beat their opposition from Wales 63-27 overall after 17 matches were played across 10 sports in the first Varsity fixture since 2019. Sport Bath Cardiff Met Bath Varsity Points...
Team Bath Netball got back to winning ways in Scotland on Saturday as they picked up three valuable Vitality Superleague points with a 57-40 victory over Strathclyde Sirens. [caption id="attachment_67130" align="alignright" width="292"] Hannah Passmore made her return from injury. PICTURES: Ross Wardrop[/caption] The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold were looking for a strong performance after the frustration of recent weeks and quickly stamped their authority on what has traditionally been a tricky away fixture, taking...
Anna Stembridge praised the “incredible strength of character” shown by her extended playing squad after Covid provided the latest challenge for Team Bath Netball to tackle during the 2022 Vitality Superleague season. Having already negotiated injuries, visa delays and one early-season Covid outbreak that sidelined the coaching staff and some players, the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold found themselves without four regular starters – captain Imogen Allison, Layla Guscoth, Kirsty Harris and Tash Pavelin –...
Team Bath Netball are looking for a response to Monday’s last-quarter disappointment against Loughborough Lightning when they head to Coventry to face Wasps in Round 9 of the Vitality Superleague on Saturday (7pm centre-pass). Both teams faced Lightning in their last match, with the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold playing brilliantly to lead after 45 minutes before being undone by the defending champions in the final period. That match came a day after Lightning had been restricted to their narrowest win...
Team Bath Netball were once again left to rue a run of goals against them in the final quarter as they went down 53-44 at home to defending champions Loughborough Lightning in the Vitality Superleague on Monday. An enthralling game featuring big momentum swings had seen the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold trail by five, then lead by as many at the end of quarter one before ending both the second and third periods with...
Team Bath Netball put some all-important points on the board in the hunt for a 2022 Vitality Superleague top-four finish with a convincing home win against Welsh franchise Celtic Dragons at the Team Bath Arena on Sunday. After labouring to eke out a lead in the opening two quarters, despite some clever passages of play, the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold unleashed a controlled attack to score 10 unanswered goals in the third period, going...
Serena Guthrie has thanked the Team Bath Netball fans for their “unwavering support” throughout her illustrious career after today announcing that she is pregnant and retiring from playing at elite level. The Blue & Gold legend – who first came to the club as a prodigiously talented 13-year-old from Jersey and developed into arguably the greatest mid-courter of her generation – had planned to hang up her bib after captaining England at this summer’s Commonwealth...
A ten-goal swing in the opening stages of the final quarter saw Team Bath Netball slip to defeat against Vitality Superleague table-toppers Manchester Thunder at the Team Bath Arena tonight. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold had treated a capacity crowd to some fantastic netball for the first 45 minutes, only for the league leaders to flip the game completely on its head in the next five minutes as they turned a 42-39 deficit at...
Team Bath Netball go into a massive March in positive and determined mood after emerging victorious from a pulsating Vitality Superleague derby at Severn Stars. Momentum ebbed and flowed as the West Country rivals went toe to toe at the University of Gloucester Arena on Saturday but it was the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold – with South African star defender Phumza Maweni in their starting seven for the first time – who held their...
A strong second-half fightback saw Surrey Storm crash Team Bath Netball’s homecoming party and run out 62-58 winners in the first Vitality Superleague match at the Team Bath Arena in almost two years. There was nothing to choose between the teams during the first quarter but the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold managed to edge into a four-goal lead at half-time and briefly led by seven in the early stages of the third period. However,...
