Italian-born Ilaria Brandimarte was just nine years old when she first became a synchronised swimming national champion. Since then, she has gone on to win an outstanding haul of senior national championships medals, including seven at the 2015 ASA National Championships, and is in the process of gaining a British passport in order to be involved with GB Synchro. But for now, her attention is turned to establishing Team Bath Synchro Club - the first...
Team Bath Netball fans will have chance to watch potential stars of the future in action for free on Friday when the inaugural U21 Netball Performance League (NPL) gets under way. Providing a link between the U19s and Superleague, the new league will see Team Bath take on the seven other English franchises in a round-robin competition. Matches will predominantly be played just before Superleague fixtures, with Team Bath’s first game against Manchester Thunder taking...
Young Western Area judoka were treated to a masterclass at the STV dojo on Tuesday (April 4) when they enjoyed a combined training session with Team Bath's high performance athletes. Children as young as 10 had the opportunity to learn from and train with Team Bath's top judoka as well as athletes from the region's Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence (AASE) programme. The University of Bath is home to one of eight AASE programmes which are performance...
Team Bath judoka Megan Fletcher enjoyed a dream debut for Ireland when she won gold at the Senior European Cup in Dubrovnik, Croatia. In her first international competition for a year, Fletcher overcame Serbia’s Sara Tintor, Alina Lengweiler of Switzerland and France’s Gwenaelle Viard to claim the title in the women’s -70kg weight division. It was also Ireland’s first international judo success since 2014 and an excellent return to action for Fletcher, whose hopes of...
The University of Bath is looking forward to hosting an Invictus Games selection trials on Friday for the second consecutive year. The Sports Training Village will welcome 3,000 athletes and 150 staff from across the country for the three-day event. Competitors, who are serving and veteran servicemen and women using sport as part of their recovery, will contest events in athletics, archery, wheelchair basketball, road cycling, powerlifting, indoor rowing, wheelchair rugby, swimming, sitting volleyball and wheelchair...
Iconic British ski jumper Michael 'Eddie the Eagle' Edwards paid tribute to the "beautiful" facilities at the Sports Training Village after using the bobsleigh push-start track in an advert shoot. The 52-year old, best known for being Great Britain's first Olympic ski jumper for 59 years when he appeared at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, took to the sled for the first time since a short stint during which he trained as a bobsleigh...
Head Coach Anna Stembridge says Team Bath Netball are looking forward to “righting the wrongs” of their first Vitality Superleague away defeat of 2017 when they play host to Manchester Thunder this week. The Blue and Gold – sponsored by Sitec – were beaten 51-45 in Glasgow by new Scottish franchise Sirens on Friday but they have responded positively to their two previous losses this season, going on to win their following matches. They will...
University of Bath duo Will Britton and Charlie Dunbar both started for England Rugby Students during Sunday’s entertaining 36-36 draw with Ireland. Second-row forward Britton, who studies Sport & Social Sciences, and centre Dunbar, a Sport & Exercise Science student, were both called up for their country after impressing for the Blue and Gold 1st XV – sponsored by IKON Construction – during the inaugural BUCS Super Rugby season. Sunday’s closely-contested match in Oxford saw the lead exchange hands...
The University of Bath Hawks touch rugby team capped an outstanding season by winning the final leg of the England Touch Universities Series on home soil to be crowned as overall Series Champions. Hawks beat Exeter University 5-2 in a high-tempo and exciting final at Claverton Down on Saturday to exact revenge for their semi-final defeat in round three of the series and take the silverware. Proud captain Dom Tripp, an England international and Sport...
Joe Choong is a Mathematics student at the University of Bath and an Olympic athlete with Pentathlon GB. Helping him excel on both the sporting and academic front is a bursary from Team Bath partners MJ Church, the Marshfield-based Civil Engineering, Plant, Transport and Waste Management Contractors. As he prepares to return to international competition, here is Joe's latest blog as a MJ Church Sporting Ambassador... "Last year I had my most successful year in sport, which...
