The pioneering SwimWall system that allows the Olympic-sized swimming pool at the Team Bath Sports Training Village to be adapted to a 25m facility has won two prizes at the annual UK Pool and Spa Awards. SR Smith, the US company that fitted the turning board system in 2019, was awarded the Gold Standard for Pool Product of the Year and Silver Standard for Commercial Pool Project of the Year. The SwimWall, which sits on...
Fun and energising dance-based exercise classes are back on the Team Bath virtual fitness timetable for the week commencing January 18th 2021, along with two Sunday home workout sessions. As always, all of the sessions are streamed live on Zoom and are free to access for Team Bath members and University of Bath students and staff. Non-members can access the classes on a pay-as-you-go basis. Latin Fit and Zumba sessions, on Tuesday and Thursday respectively,...
Team Bath Netball will continue their build-up to the 2021 Vitality Superleague season with a West Country derby on Saturday as they visit Severn Stars for a pre-season friendly being live-streamed on YouTube (12pm centre-pass). Blue & Gold Superleague Head Coach Anna Stembridge says the match will be another good opportunity for the 12 players travelling for the match to gain valuable court time in a match-play environment. “Our England players are away at the...
Fifteen swimmers who train at the University of Bath, including seven students and Olympic and Paralympic medallists, have been named in the first-ever England Swimming Team ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The larger-than-normal team of 85 swimmers in total brings together everyone who will be considered for selection for Team England at the Commonwealth Games next year. Among them are four University of Bath sporting scholars – Natural Sciences student Jacob Greenow,...
Team Bath judoka Ben Fletcher says he is excited to get back into competition and see where he is on the global stage as he prepares to compete in this week’s Doha Masters event in Qatar. Fletcher and sister Megan, a Commonwealth Champion who also trains with Team Bath, will be representing Ireland on the international circuit for only the second time since the Coronavirus pandemic forced competition to be suspended last March, while University...
Superleague players and England Netball Roses Academy squad members are among the 40 rising Team Bath Netball stars named in the U21 and U19 Netball Performance League squads for 2021. Shooter Hannah Passmore – a University of Bath Criminology student who is supported by a Buchan Jones Sporting Scholarship – will once again combine her Superleague duties for the Blue & Gold with representing the U21s, who she co-captained during the 2020 season. She is...
Craig Thompson continued Great Britain’s strong start to the IBSF Skeleton World Cup season with a career-best fifth in Winterberg on Friday. The University of Bath-based team ended 2020 with two World Cup medals to their name and weren’t far off adding to that tally at the start of 2021 as Thompson finished just 36 hundredths of a second behind home favourite Alexander Gassner in third. The result beat Thompson's previous best of sixth, a...
Team Bath’s virtual timetable of exercise classes and wellbeing sessions is returning to keep you active during lockdown – and it is free to access for Team Bath members and University of Bath students and staff. The fun and interactive sessions, running six days a week and streamed live on Zoom (click here to download), will allow you to keep working out from your own home under the guidance and motivation of familiar faces from...
Team Bath's personal trainers are running outdoor sessions during January and February to help people keep active and motivated during the national lockdown. The socially-distanced one-to-one sessions are available to local customers only, due to travel restrictions, and will take place on St John’s Field, the area of playing fields on the right-hand side of the main entrance road onto the University of Bath campus. There is no need to enter the Sports Training Village,...
Following the latest Government announcement, the Team Bath Sports Training Village will be generally closed until further notice due to the national lockdown restrictions. Helping you stay active We will be running an interactive and motivational Team Bath Virtual Fitness timetable on Zoom, starting from Monday, January 11. This will be free of charge to all existing members, as well as University of Bath students and staff, and there will be a pay-as-you-go option for...
