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...
Wheelchair fencing World Champions Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver, who both train at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, have once again been rewarded on the national and international stage for their outstanding performances. The duo have been named on the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sport Federation (IWAS) Wheelchair Fencing list of 2019 ‘Best Athletes’, recognising the fencers who have achieved the most points in their individual discipline and category during the calendar year. Gilliver...
There were four wins and a new British record for Freya Anderson as University of Bath-based swimmers past and present continued to impress for London Roar at the International Swimming League in Budapest. Fresh from recording five top-two finishes in Roar’s second match of the competition, Anderson – part of the British Swimming National Centre Bath squad that train at the Team Bath Sports Training Village – excelled once more as Roar finished runners-up to...
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...
Vicky Holland today became the first University of Bath-based sportsperson to be officially selected for Tokyo 2020 after being named in the Team GB triathlon squad for next summer’s rescheduled Olympic Games. It will be a third Games for the 34-year-old, who made history at Rio 2016 when she bagged a brilliant bronze to become the first female triathlete to win an Olympic medal for Great Britain. Shortly after the Games, Holland moved her training...
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...
University of Bath-based Freya Anderson was in fantastic form on her first appearance in the 2020 International Swimming League (ISL) as she helped inspire London Roar to a second successive victory in Budapest. Anderson, who this summer joined the British Swimming National Centre Bath squad at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, recorded rapid split times as Roar picked up a maximum 24 points in both the women’s 4x100m freestyle and the 4x100m medley relays...
It was an emotional evening in Rome on Saturday as former University of Bath Rugby Club player Tom Dunn finally made his long-awaited senior England debut. The hooker came off the bench in the closing stages of England’s 34-5 victory over Italy which, combined with France’s defeat of Ireland later that evening, secured the 2020 Guinness Six Nations title for the Roses. A video of Dunn speaking to his family back home while proudly wearing...
Team Bath Tennis ace Grace Piper claimed her fourth LTA British Tour title in the space of 12 months with a dominant performance in the women’s singles at Taunton Tennis Club. Piper, a pupil at Ralph Allen School in Bath, dropped just 12 games across four matches as she lived up to her number-one seeding in the draw, securing the trophy with a 6-2 6-1 victory over second seed Katherine Barnes. The latest title comes...
Eye-catching performances from University of Bath-based Emily Large and alumna Anna Hopkin helped London Roar record the highest number of points in an International Swimming League fixture and start their 2020 campaign in fantastic style. Hopkin (pictured), who trained with Mark Skimming’s student swimming squad while studying Sports & Exercise Science, swam the anchor leg of an impressive women’s 4x100m freestyle relay victory as Roar opened up a 97-point lead at the end of day...
