Team Bath and England defender Stacey Francis has been named Fiat Netball Superleague Player of the Year for 2011. The 23-year-old University of Bath Sports Performance graduate won the player of the year plaudit in a vote by the Superleague coaches. It means the award stays in the Team Bath family. Team Bath shooter Pamela Cookey is the only other player to have won the honour in the four years of the award – she...
Team Bath’s bid for a historic fifth Fiat Netball Superleague title ended with a 57-53 defeat to Surrey Storm in a pulsating play-off match at the University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight (Friday). The contest lived up to the classic that everyone had hoped for between two closely matched teams who between them featured half of the England squad for July’s World Championships. Team Bath went into the final quarter five goals up, but...
Triathlete and cross-country runner Lucy Ferguson was named the University of Bath’s Sports Personality of the Year for 2011 at the annual Blues Awards, one of the highlights of the student sporting year. Lucy, who is in the fourth year of a Sports Engineering degree at the University of Bath, topped a poll of Students’ Union Sports Association members to collect the award. Paralympic athlete Katrina Hart, swimmer Michael Jamieson, rugby player Izzy Noel-Smith and...
Yasmin Parsons made her FIAT Superleague debut as Bath bounced back from Thursday’s home defeat to Surrey Storm with a 59-27 away win over Glasgow Wildcats over the weekend. The win secured the defending champions a home tie in this month’s play-offs when they will once again face Surrey Storm. Parsons came on at wing-attack in the third quarter. Interestingly, Kadeen Corbin, who also made her Team Bath Superleague debut just a few weeks ago,...
Team Bath will have to wait until Saturday (14 May) night to confirm a home tie in the Fiat Netball Superleague play-offs after going down 60-47 to Surrey Storm at the University of Bath tonight (Thursday). Tonight’s result means the two teams will meet again in the first round of the play-offs and they go into the final round of regular season games level on points. Team Bath have a superior goal average and victory...
A bronze statue of former Welsh international footballer and University of Bath football coach Ivor Powell MBE was unveiled at the University today (Tuesday). The 94-year-old retired a year ago after 37 years working as a football coach at the University. It followed a remarkable career that saw him play for Wales, Blackpool, Aston Villa and Queen’s Park Rangers. The 18-inch tall statue is cast in bronze and was paid for by the University of...
Team Bath’s netballers have secured a place in the end of season play-offs of the Fiat Netball Superleague. Saturday’s 52-49 victory over Leeds Carnegie, combined with a defeat for Loughborough Lightning, who are fifth in the table, ensured Team Bath will finish at least fourth in the Superleague. Team Bath are currently third in the table and if they can finish third they will book a home tie in the first round of the end...
Team Bath’s netballers edged ever closer to a place in the FIAT netball Superleague play-offs with a 52-49 win over Leeds Carnegie at home today but they were made to fight all the way to the wire for it. Trailing 44-45 with six and a half minutes to the final whistle, Team Bath needed a goal-surge in the final three minutes to get the win in front of the Bank Holiday weekend home crowd at...
Team Bath’s netballers picked up maximum points from their Fiat Superleague double-header this weekend with wins against Celtic Dragons and Team Northumbria to maintain a top four slot with four matches to go before the play-offs. Back-to-back wins were important for coach Jess Garland after the previous double-header weekend saw Team Bath win convincingly on the Friday but losing on the Sunday. Pre-weekend the former England international had told her players to concentrate on the...
One of the biggest multi-sports events in the UK takes place at the University of Bath this weekend when Bath hosts the British Colleges Sport National Championships for the first time. Around 2200 teenagers and staff from the further education sector around the country will attend the event, which features three days of high-level action across 14 sports. The students will battle it out in badminton, basketball, cross-country, golf, hockey, netball, rugby, five-a-side soccer, squash,...
