After an injury-curtailed 2021 season, Jess Shaw says she is raring to go and eyeing a happier ending to the 2022 Vitality Superleague campaign after recommitting to Team Bath Netball. The England Futures player was in fantastic form for the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold during the early stages of the 2021 season, producing a series of dynamic displays at wing-attack and centre. Sadly she suffered an injury in training in April, resulting in a...
Exciting young shooter Lily Jones says she can’t wait to learn from her role models after becoming the latest player to progress through the Team Bath Netball talent development network into the Superleague squad. The 18-year-old from Jersey has been named in the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold squad for the 2022 Vitality Superleague campaign after excelling as captain of Team Bath’s U19s last season. She also caught the eye in a number of training...
When Lily-May Catling first took to the Team Bath Arena court for a junior tournament at the age of 12, she looked around and thought ‘I want to play Superleague netball here’. Fourteen years on and the defender will get to fulfil that dream in the famous Blue & Gold after joining Haines Watts-sponsored Team Bath Netball for the 2022 Vitality Superleague season. It’s been quite a journey for Catling, who grew up in Wimborne...
She is one of the most exciting prospects in English netball, can play at both ends of the court, is U21 captain for club and country – and now Molly Hole is also part of the Team Bath Netball Vitality Superleague squad for the 2022 season. It continues an incredible rise through the ranks for the hugely-talented 18-year-old, who first started with the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold at their regional hub in Dorset five...
Rachel Shaw is eyeing a trophy double as she goes into her ninth Vitality Superleague season with Team Bath Netball. As well as targeting the Superleague crown with the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold, the influential wing-attack is also coach of the University of Bath’s talented student squad who are returning to BUCS [British Universities & Colleges Sport] competition this week after a year out. “This is my ninth season with Team Bath and I’m...
Super shooter Kim Borger says she and her team-mates have “unfinished business” in the Vitality Superleague after being confirmed as the first member of a star-studded Team Bath Netball squad for the 2022 season. It will be a fourth year in the UK for the inspirational Australian, who topped the Superleague shooting stats with an incredible 93 per cent conversion rate as she helped fire the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold to the 2021 Superleague...
Nearly 200 talented netballers aged 14-18 from across the South West of England competed in the first-ever Team Bath Netball Academy tournament at the University of Bath on Sunday. Fourteen teams, two from each of the seven regional Academy Development Centres, got to experience playing in the Team Bath Arena, home to the Blue & Gold’s Vitality Superleague squad, during the day-long competition supported by Haines Watts, Team Bath’s principal sponsor. Fifteen coaches from the...
Team Bath Netball’s Anya Le Monnier is among a handful of coaches nationally to be accepted onto the England Netball Pathway Coach Development Programme for the 2021-22 season. Le Monnier was a training partner for the Blue & Gold Superleague squad last season and also assistant coach of Team Bath’s U19s in the National Performance League (NPL). She has a long-time passion for coaching, having studied Sports Performance at the University of Bath and taken...
Team Bath Netball’s U15s produced some brilliant performances as they finished sixth overall at the 2021 School Games. The Blue & Gold, coached by Superleague stars Rachel Shaw and Kirsty Harris, only missed out on a place in the semi-finals on goal difference after finishing third in Pool A. They continued their fine form in the placing matches by beating a North East team 38-11 and Saracens Mavericks 30-27, which extended their winning streak to...
Team Bath Netball’s Rachael Fee, Hannah Passmore and Molly Hole have all been named in the England Netball Roses age-group squads after successfully trialling over the weekend. Defender Fee and shooter Passmore, a University of Bath sporting scholar, have both been members of the Blue & Gold’s Superleague squad, with the latter making her top-flight debut against London Pulse earlier this year. They have been selected into the Roses U21 Programme for 2021 and have also been named in...
