Lizzy Yarnold narrowly missed out on a European Championships medal during a snowy World Cup weekend in Winterberg, Germany, for athletes from the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA). Reigning Olympic skeleton champion Yarnold was fourth in the European standings and sixth overall in the latest World Cup event, which was limited to just one run down the track instead of two due to intermittent heavy snow. Team-mate Laura Deas was eighth...
Team Bath Tennis player Marcus Daniell is through to the semi-finals of his first international tournament of 2017. Daniell and Marcelo Demoliner of Brazil, competing in the ASB Classic in New Zealand, were 6-3 7-6(4) winners over multiple Grand Slam champion Leander Paes and partner Andre Sa on Thursday. That followed on from their 6-4 6-4 victory over Guillermo Duran and Joao Sousa in the opening round and set up a last-four showdown with Marcin...
University of Bath sporting scholar Cameron Chalmers has been shortlisted for the Channel Islands Sports Personality of the Year Award. The Sports Performance student finished 2016 ranked as Europe’s top 400m runner in the U20 age group, having represented Great Britain at the IAAF World Junior Championships. Supported by a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship, Chalmers – originally from Guernsey – is up against tennis player Scott Clayton, Olympic equestrian champion Carl Hester and rugby player-coach Alex...
Team Bath Tennis Academy ace Amelia Bissett has been selected to represent Great Britain in this year’s U14 Tennis Europe Winter Cup. The 13-year-old from Devizes, who is coached by Eve Hughes and Craig Procter at the University of Bath Sports Training Village, will travel to Pecs, Hungary, from February 3-5 to compete in the qualifying group stages of the sport’s premier indoor junior team competition. Great Britain will join the host nation and Denmark,...
Some of the most talented young hockey players in the country visited the Sports Training Village over the weekend to find out more about the hockey programme at the University of Bath. During their visit, the teenagers from London-based Kingston Grammar School – regular winners of the National Schools Championships – got to take on a University XI on the Sitec water-based pitch, winning 3-2, as well as have a tour of the campus facilities....
The Team Bath Buccaneers men’s indoor squad have successfully retained their place in the England Hockey Super Sixes Premier Division for the 2017-18 season. It is the first time Buccs have been able to consolidate their status after gaining promotion to the top flight and it could have been even better still as they came within one goal of a place in the national finals. University of Bath women’s hockey coach John Jackson, who captained...
Fresh from their tri-tournament success this weekend the Team Bath Netball family has welcomed a new member in Centurion Wealth Management. The Corston-based firm of financial and wealth management advisers will support the team with finance aimed particularly at developing the team’s performance analysis capabilities. “Team Bath Netball is already a strong force nationally as well as a high-achieving local team. We wanted to reward and help develop that excellence by providing the netballers with...
It was a weekend to remember for winter-sport athletes who train at the University of Bath as they made an impressive return to the international circuit. The British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association enjoyed a medal-laden visit to Park City in Utah as rising skeleton star Madelaine Smith (pictured) won back-to-back gold medals in the first North American Cup event of 2017. Team-mate Donna Creighton was runner-up to Smith on both occasions, while the men’s races...
Team Bath Netball provided a sell-out home crowd with plenty to cheer as they came out on top in a well-contested tri-tournament against Loughborough Lightning and Wasps Netball at the University of Bath on Saturday. After beating Lightning 39-26 in the opening match, the Blue and Gold – sponsored by Sitec – then came from behind to overcome a battling Wasps outfit 36-27 in the decisive third fixture of an action-packed afternoon. Vitality Netball Superleague...
University of Bath-based slider Laura Deas started 2017 as she had finished 2016 – by securing a wider-podium place on the World Cup circuit. After finishing sixth in Lake Placid in December, Deas matched that result on Friday morning in Altenberg, Germany as the international skeleton season resumed after the Christmas break. Fellow Brit Lizzy Yarnold was ninth and slipped down to second in the overall World Cup standings after three races behind Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling,...
