Team Bath maintained their 100 per cent record in the Netball Superleague Showdown with a hard-fought 60-48 victory over Celtic Dragons in Newport last night (Monday). Team Bath had to battle back from three goals down at the halfway mark to take the victory and end Dragons’ five-game winning streak. And they did it in style, taking the third quarter 18-8 and the final quarter 16-11 to establish a 12-goal winning margin. That means Team...
University of Bath graduate Jamie Barrow is celebrating a British snowboard record after clocking a speed of 94.2 mph at Verbier in Switzerland. The Sports Performance graduate Barrow recorded 88.7 mph on his first run and followed that with the record of 94.2 mph on his second. The conditions on the 880m long Mont Fort speed track were ideal for the speed run, with a temperature of 12°C, next to no wind and perfect visibility....
Team Bath were made to fight every step of the way to keep their winning Superleague streak intact tonight at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. After losing the opening quarter 9-13, they pulled back to 23-23 at half-time before grinding out the victory at 52-38. “It was good that questions were asked of us today”, said coach Jess Thirlby after the encounter. “That’s the way it should be in the top four and...
Team Bath buried memories of their only Superleague defeat this season by thrashing Surrey Storm 65-39 at the University of Bath tonight (Monday). Team Bath topped Phase One of the Superleague with Surrey Storm finishing second. But with Storm winning the Phase One fixture between the two teams 61-46, the signs suggested we were in store for a close encounter at the Sports Training Village. But starting with a seven featuring five players just back...
Team Bath’s netballers will continue their quest for a fifth Superleague title with what promise to be three thrilling home fixtures against Surrey Storm, Hertfordshire Mavericks and Celtic Dragons next month. The action gets underway in Phase Two of the Superleague, the Showdown League, with a televised game against Surrey Storm at the Sports Training Village on Monday 15 April. Three days later, on Thursday 18 April, Team Bath host Hertfordshire Mavericks. And on Monday...
Team Bath’s netballers have made sure of a top-three finish in phase one of the Superleague – and with it a place in the Showdown League for phase two. Team Bath overcame Yorkshire Jets 54-51 in Friday night’s penultimate phase one game. They travel to Hertfordshire Mavericks on Friday (22 March) for their last game of phase one in joint first place with Surrey Storm. Defender Samantha Cook made a welcome return from injury against...
Team Bath judo player Ben Fletcher has secured the biggest win of his career to date by taking gold at the Pan-American Open in Uruguay. Fletcher (pictured) beat Brazil’s 2007 world champion Luciano Correa in the final of the over the under-100kg class to take gold in Montevideo. Juergen Klinger, head judo coach at the University of Bath, said: “It was a fantastic result for Ben, especially as it’s his first year as a senior...
Team Bath kept that winning feeling going today for the home fans with a solid but not spectacular 61-35 netball Superleague victory over Team Northumbria at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village. Mia Ritchie, the all-action pocket-rocket in the mid-court for the home team, summed up the mood in the post-match camp when she said that they were “not as happy as we would have liked to be”. “We didn’t put them under enough...
University of Bath-based hurdler Eilidh Child will return to the city from the European Indoor Championships in Sweden with two medals – and without clearing a single jump. The Scot, who is coached by Malcolm Arnold – British Athletics’ Lead Hurdles Coach, runs the 400m hurdles in the outdoor season but has been enjoying an impressive flat season indoors during the winter. She looked good in qualifying through the heats and semis of the 400m...
It was a case of normal service resumed for Team Bath as they ran out 69-30 winners over Loughborough Lightning in the Netball Superleague at the University of Bath tonight (Friday). Playing in front of a sell-out crowd of almost 1400 fans, Team Bath quickly erased memories of last week’s defeat. The two teams looked evenly matched early on as they probed each other for weaknesses. Team Bath took the first quarter 13-8. Team Bath...
