After a fleeting but eye-catching start to her Vitality Superleague career, Welsh shooter Betsy Creak is ambitious to further establish her top-flight credentials after recommitting to Team Bath Netball for the 2021 season. The 24-year-old came off the bench twice for the Blue & Gold during the curtailed 2020 campaign and impressed both times, looking cool and composed in front of nearly 10,000 spectators on her debut against Loughborough Lightning before converting 100 per cent...
She is educating youngsters in her new job off court but Abi Robson is also ready to continue her own learning on court after extending her long-standing association with Team Bath Netball into the 2021 Vitality Superleague season. The 22-year-old defensive mid-courter has returned to her alma mater, Monkton Combe School in Bath, as a teaching assistant after graduating with first-class honours from a Geography degree at the University of the West of England in...
She was one of the Vitality Superleague’s breakout stars of the truncated 2020 season and defender Tash Pavelin cannot wait to build on those performances after committing to Team Bath Netball for the 2021 campaign. The 22-year-old started at goal-defence in all three of the Blue & Gold’s matches before lockdown and excelled in each of them, particularly the memorable home victory over Wasps in which she was named as player of the match. They...
She helped to keep the netball community active and engaged during lockdown, now Rachel Shaw is looking forward to getting back on court after committing to Team Bath Netball for a ninth Vitality Superleague season. The effervescent England-capped wing-attack streamed weekly online training sessions from her front room during the spring and early summer, which proved to be hugely popular and were enjoyed by thousands of netballers and clubs from across the country and overseas....
England defender Layla Guscoth says “it feels good to be home” after returning to Team Bath Netball and the Vitality Superleague for the 2021 season. The 28-year-old’s magnificent form during her previous spell in Blue & Gold saw her named in the Superleague Team of the Year in both 2017 and 2018, with her performances all the more impressive as she was combining netball with a demanding off-court career as a trainee doctor. After completing...
She’s refreshed, recharged and raring to go – England superstar Serena Guthrie is back with Team Bath Netball for the 2021 Vitality Superleague season. The mid-court maestro enjoyed her first competitive outings since July 2019, when she captained England to victory in the bronze-medal match against South Africa at the Netball World Cup in Liverpool, when she won her 99th and 100th caps for the Roses in this month's international series against World Champions New...
Four rising Team Bath Netball stars have been selected to trial for the England Roses U19 squad for the 2020-21 season. Rosie Bartlett, Molly Hole, Lily Jones and Isla May have all been part of the Blue & Gold’s Academy Development Centre (ADC) programme, based across the South West of England and supported by Team Bath Netball's principal sponsor Haines Watts, and represented Team Bath in NPL (Netball Performance League) competition. Bartlett, from Cornwall, is...
University of Bath alumna Imogen Allison made her senior debut and current sporting scholar Sophie Drakeford-Lewis gained more international experience as England Netball took on World Champions New Zealand during a three-match tour. Team Bath Netball legend Serena Guthrie also won her 100th cap for the Vitality Roses during the Cadbury Netball Series in Hamilton, the first competitive international netball since January. Wing-defence Allison – who graduated from a Sports & Exercise Science degree course...
The ingenuity and flexibility shown by sports coaches both during and after lockdown will help them develop and improve going forward, says Team Bath Netball’s Anna Stembridge. Like her fellow coaches at all levels of sport since March, the Blue & Gold’s Superleague Head Coach has had to adjust to the changing circumstances caused by the Coronavirus pandemic and new social-distancing measures. She has stayed in touch with the Superleague squad remotely, hosting both individual...
Exciting young Team Bath Netball players Imogen Allison and Sophie Drakeford-Lewis have been named in the England Netball Vitality Roses programme for the 2020-21 season. The duo are joined in the 16-strong squad of UK-based players by Blue & Gold legend Serena Guthrie, who has been taking a break from the sport since captaining England to a bronze medal at the 2019 Netball World Cup. Goal-attack Drakeford-Lewis – who combines her netball career with studying...
