Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy player Samantha Murray battled hard for over an hour on Court 10 at Wimbledon before going out of the women's singles Championships. Ranked at no.235 in the world, Murray got a wild card into the main singles draw after some good results this season so far but went down 3-6, 4-6 to Camila Giorgi of Italy, the world no.93. Murray and her Team Bath MCTA counterpart Lisa Whybourn still have...
Team Bath judo player Tom Reed scored the biggest result of his career by winning gold at the IJF Grand Prix in Miami. Reed beat Tuvshinjargal Gan of Mongolia with a golden score in the semi-final of the under-81kg class event. He followed that up with victory in the final over Argentina’s Emmanuel Lucenti, who finished seventh in the division at the London 2012 Olympics. Reed is a University of Bath Business Administration graduate. Juergen...
Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy players Samantha Murray and Lisa Whybourn are set to make their debuts in the Wimbledon main draw after being handed wildcards for The Championships 2013. They are joined by another Team Bath MCTA player, Mel South, who returns to play at Wimbledon in the women’s doubles main draw. Murray has been given a wildcard to play in both the singles and the women’s doubles at this year’s Wimbledon. She partners...
University of Bath student Tom Heathcote will make his first start for the senior Scotland team in Saturday’s rugby international against Samoa. The 21-year-old Bath Rugby player is studying for a degree in Politics with Economics at the University. He has come off the bench against Tonga last autumn but Saturday’s test against Samoa in Durban is the fly-half’s first senior international start. Meanwhile Politics with Economics student Max Maidment, has signed a contract with...
Team Bath battled to a fifth Netball Superleague win – their first since 2010 – tonight in Worcester with a 62-56 win over Celtic Dragons. The Team Bath squad started as marginal favourites despite losing to Celtic Dragons at home in the Showdown Phase of the league. This was a brutal and see-sawing final with neither side able to establish a significant lead until the final four minutes when Team Bath surged to the victory...
Team Bath’s hopes of a fifth netball superleague title in eight attempts are very much on track after they beat Manchester Thunder 53-43 at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village this evening. The home side’s third-quarter 19 goals for only nine replies proved crucial to the win against the defending champions. Team Bath were dominant initially but then slipped to a fragile 25-22 lead at half-time. “We had a good start but then they...
Team Bath netball head coach Jess Thirlby has urged fans to really get behind the team in Sunday’s home semi-final (19 May) to help propel them to a historic fifth Superleague title. The team’s 63-43 victory at Surrey Storm last night (Monday) means they topped the Showdown stage of the Superleague to book home advantage in Sunday’s big semi-final, which takes places at the University of Bath Sports Training Village at 7.30pm on Sunday. Team...
Britain’s Jamie Cooke won the first Modern Pentathlon World Cup medal of his career today (Sunday), and he did it in style, taking gold in Budapest. The 22-year-old, who won the World Junior Championships in Argentina in 2011, had to produce a gritty and spirited performance to battle back from 24th place after the fencing. But the world number 40 ranked athlete was the fastest in the pool, went clear in the ride and then...
Team Bath’s netballers will probably have to wait until Monday’s (13 May) last game of their Superleague Showdown league campaign to learn their semi-final opponents. The four-times Superleague champions currently top the Showdown table. If they finish the season in first or second place they will have a home semi-final at the Sports Training Village on the weekend of Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May. But mathematically, any two of Team Bath, Surrey Storm or...
Team Bath’s Superleague netballers suffered their first home defeat of the 2013 season by 58-66 to Celtic Dragons at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village this evening. In a top-of-the-table clash Dragons perfectly executed the long ball to their totem goal-shooter Lottysha Cato to great effect whilst Team Bath could not convert their turn-over ball. “Our attacking games was not good enough”, said coach Jess Thirlby whose side had beaten the Dragons in their...
