Members of the University of Bath men’s rugby squad have had chance to share the pitch with current England players and learn from a decorated international and Premiership coach this week. The Blue & Gold were invited to Bisham Abbey to take part in a semi-contact team training forwards and backs session with the England Women’s squad as they prepare for the 2019 Six Nations, which starts with a visit to Ireland on Friday, February...
University of Bath windsurfer Sarah Jackson geared up for a busy 2019 of study and sport by claiming an impressive top-ten finish in the South African National Championships. The Sports Performance student, who is a MJ Church Ambassador and supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship, was one of only two women taking part in the week-long event that featured competitors from the Pro World Tour. She had originally gone to Cape Town for a month...
Great Britain have been drawn in Group A alongside Hungary, Greece and Slovenia for the upcoming Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I tie at the University of Bath. Nations will play three round-robin ties of two singles matches and a doubles rubber when the Sports Training Village hosts the eagerly-anticipated event – dubbed the Women’s World Cup of tennis – from February 6-9. Great Britain must finish top of their group in order to secure...
Head Coach Jess Thirlby is to call time on her successful career with Team Bath Netball after 20 years of service as player and coach to the Blue & Gold and five national titles when the 2019 Vitality Netball Superleague season comes to an end. Thirlby informed the University of Bath of her decision in November to give them scope to mount a comprehensive and global search for a world-class replacement throughout the season whilst...
Focus in February looks set to settle on the University of Bath’s role in hosting the Fed Cup - the equivalent to the Women’s World Cup in tennis - from February 6-9, 2019. Our Sports Training Village will be vibrant with branding and the bustle of spectators coming on site for two sessions daily to watch eight countries in action. This is a vital event for the GB team who are trying to gain promotion to...
World Champion Jamie Cooke and European medallist Kate French made their intentions for the new season clear with commanding victories when the University of Bath played host to the opening Pentathlon GB National Ranking Competition of 2019 on Saturday. Sports Performance graduate French - who, like Cooke, represented Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games - led from start to finish in a competitive women’s field, finishing ahead of Kerenza Bryson and Joanna Muir....
Team Bath Netball produced an excellent performance to record their first-ever Vitality Netball Superleague away victory over Strathclyde Sirens. The Sitec-sponsored Blue & Gold were without England duo Serena Guthrie and Eboni Usoro-Brown for the tough trip to Glasgow but demonstrated their strength in depth by winning each quarter on their way to a 55-45 victory over a Sirens side backed by a 1,200-strong home crowd. University of Bath student Imogen Allison, player of the...
Both Pentathlon GB and the University of Bath will step up their preparations for this summer’s Modern Pentathlon European Championships when the first British ranking competitions of 2019 are staged at the Sports Training Village. The competition – which draws the top pentathletes from all over the country – will help to determine team selection for this year’s international events, which includes the European Championships. That is a Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifying event and...
Croatia’s Donna Vekic and Greece’s Maria Sakkari will join fellow world top-50 player Johanna Konta of Great Britain on the Team Bath Tennis courts for next month’s Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Europe/Africa Zone Group I tie. All eight nations contesting the event at the University of Bath Sports Training Village from February 6-9 have now named their teams for the first Fed Cup tie to be staged in Great Britain since 1993. Vekic, who...
Team Bath Netball co-captains Eboni Usoro-Brown and Serena Guthrie have been named in a 12-strong England squad for this month’s Vitality International Series in Liverpool and London. Guthrie will once again wear the captain’s armband for the matches, part of the Netball Quad Series, having led the Vitality Roses to a 3-0 whitewash of the Uganda She Cranes in November. Former Team Bath players Rachel Dunn, Layla Guscoth and Geva Mentor are also in the...
