Team Bath’s netballers made a terrific start to 2013 by capturing their first silverware of the season, winning the Cathedral City Lighter FastNet Grand Prix for the first time. Team Bath won all five of their games in the weekend’s grand prix, rounding their campaign off with a 26-21 victory over reigning Superleague and FastNest champions Manchester Thunder in the grand final. Head coach Jess Thirlby said the team’s performances and results auger well for...
A blend of youth and experience feature in an exciting Team Bath squad for the 2013 Netball Superleague campaign. Team Bath welcome back four senior England internationals to their squad for 2013 – Rosie Allison, Pamela Cookey, Stacey Francis and Serena Guthrie all return to play for the four-time Superleague champions. They return to a Team Bath squad that includes a host of talented young players who helped the team to fourth place in the...
The Team Bath trio of Kadeen Corbin, Yasmin Parsons and Mia Ritchie are celebrating helping Great Britain to victory at the inaugural World University Netball Championships. All three University of Bath students featured in a closely contested final as Great Britain beat host nation South Africa 53-49 in Cape Town. Kadeen played the whole of the final at goal keeper, with Mia starting at centre and being replaced by Yasmin later in the game. Kadeen,...
Team Bath’s young netballers ended their 2012 Fiat Netball Superleague campaign in fourth place. The team went down 62-38 to Surrey Storm in Saturday’s Superleague Showdown semi-final in Dagenham to set-up a third/fourth place play-off against Hertfordshire Mavericks on Sunday. As with the other contests with the Hertfordshire side this season, Mavericks edged the game 46-39 to take third spot. Biology student Kate McGinley became the latest young Team Bath player to make her Superleague...
Team Bath are through to the Showdown Weekend – the climax of this season’s Fiat Netball Superleague – after crushing Celtic Dragons 52-50 last night at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village. Roared on by the home crowd they made a stunning start to the must-win fixture, leading 6-0 before closing out the opening quarter 16-9. “We couldn't have asked for a better start, fantastic to go 9-0 up and deny them of scoring...
Badminton player Alex Huttunen has been named 2012 University of Bath Sports Personality of the Year Award at a ceremony at Bath’s Assembly Rooms. Alex, who is in his fourth year of a Mathematics degree at the University of Bath, received the award following a vote of members of the Students’ Union Sport Association. He featured on a shortlist of five athletes featuring swimmers Jess Dickson, Michael Jamieson and Andrew Willis, as well as hurdler...
Team Bath face a home battle against Celtic Dragons in a sudden death play-off for a place in the end of season Superleague Showdown after going down 68-43 to Northern Thunder at the University of Bath tonight (Monday). Thunder ran away with the game in the second quarter and took the three points despite a spirited late rally from Team Bath that saw them win the final quarter 13-7. Tonight's defeat means Team Bath will...
Team Bath’s young Fiat Netball Superleague side twice led visitors Hertfordshire Mavericks but could not convert, going down 48-51 in one of the season’s crunch Games. Both sides wanted the win to stay in the top three of the League’s top tier, behind leaders Northern Thunder and second-placed Surrey Storm, with two matches to play before the knock-out phases. Team Bath started with passion and tracked Mavericks in the early phases. A couple of wayward...
Team Bath need to make the most of their home advantage against Hertfordshire Mavericks on Thursday (29 March) to kick-start their campaign in the top tier of the Fiat Netball Superleague, says head coach Jess Garland. The team return to action at home at the Team Bath Arena against Mavericks, after losing their second top tier game on Saturday when they went down 62-39 at Northern Thunder. But Garland says she is convinced her young...
Team Bath’s young netballers have been urged to show more self-belief after going down 66-45 to Surrey Storm in the Fiat Netball Superleague at the Sports Training Village. Tonight’s (Friday) opening phase two game was strangely reminiscent of when the two teams met in phase one last month, with Storm racing away to an early advantage, but Team Bath steadying the ship and clawing their way into the game. On this occasion the experienced Storm...