Team Bath will look to go into the Christmas break on a suitably high note as they take on Leeds Beckett in their last BUCS Super Rugby game of 2022. The Bath Building Society-sponsored men’s 1st XV sit second in the table going into today’s match, which will now take place at the Shaftesbury Park home of Dings Crusaders RFC in Bristol at 2pm due to the freezing conditions. There are just two changes to...
Team Bath badminton players produced some outstanding performances when they competed at the English National Championships in Milton Keynes over the weekend. Katie Scott (pictured), who studies Psychology and is coached by Peter Bush at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, reached the last 16 of the women’s singles where she came up against Abigail Holden, the number-one ranked player in England. Team Bath Dual Career student-athlete Scott produced an incredible effort and performed against all expectations, only just...
There is a new venue and kick-off time for Team Bath’s BUCS Super Rugby match against Leeds Beckett on Wednesday (14th December) due to the freezing weather conditions. It will now take place at the Shaftesbury Park home of Dings Crusaders RFC in Frenchay, Bristol at 2pm (click here for directions). The game had been scheduled to kick-off at 6.30pm at the Team Bath Sports Training Village but has been moved due to a frozen pitch,...
Team Bath Netball Super League trio Imogen Allison, Tash Pavelin and Jayda Pechova will be on international duty in January after England today named three Vitality Roses squads for matches at the start of a World Cup year. Allison is named in a 16-strong squad for the Roses’ three-match series against Commonwealth Games silver-medallists Jamaica, with fixtures being played at the AO Arena in Manchester (11th January) and London’s Copper Box Arena (14th and 15th...
Ben Jones, Giles Hussey and Holly Hutchinson continued a proud tradition of Team Bath Tennis players helping Great Britain enjoy medal success at the world’s biggest student tennis team tournament. The trio were part of a six-strong GB squad that finished runners-up to the United States at the Master’U BNP Paribas tournament in Honfleur, France – the first time it had been contested since University of Bath graduate Jones helped Britain also win silver at...
A new dedicated training facility for the world-leading Great Britain wheelchair fencing squad has today been officially opened at the University of Bath, along with a rehabilitation studio for athletes from other Olympic and Paralympic sports. World Champions and Tokyo 2020 medallists Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver, fresh from winning four gold medals apiece at the 2022 European Championships, treated guests from the University, the English Institute of Sport (EIS), British Fencing, UK Sport and...
There were a host of personal bests and medals, including gold for Jana Spinner and Josh Gammon, when University of Bath student swimmers impressed at the Swim England National Winter Championships 2022. Natural Sciences student Spinner secured two titles, touching the wall first in both the 100m backstroke (1:08.49) and 100m individual medley (1:01.50). She was also runner-up in the 50m breaststroke (31.63). [caption id="attachment_68254" align="alignright" width="292"] Jana Spinner (centre) won two gold medals. PICTURES:...
A superb solo try in the closing stages from Duncan Hood sealed an excellent 27-21 win in Cardiff as Team Bath immediately bounced back to BUCS Super Rugby winning ways on Wednesday. The Bath Building Society-sponsored men’s 1st XV were holding on to a single-point lead under pressure from the hosts when the Scotland U20 hooker collected a pass just inside the Cardiff half and feinted to pass before accelerating through a gap in the...
Team Bath will be looking for an immediate response to last week’s disappointing result at Exeter when they visit Cardiff on Wednesday for their last BUCS Super Rugby away match of the year (6pm kick-off). It is the first reverse fixture of the season too, with the Bath Building Society-sponsored men’s 1st XV also bidding to avenge their last-gasp single-point home defeat to Cardiff on the opening day. Team Bath welcome Archie McNicol, Mackenzie Graham...
Team Bath Netball Head Coach Asha Francis says her new-look Super League squad will take plenty of positives from their first pre-season run-out in Saturday’s home tri-tournament. An 800-strong crowd enjoyed three well-contested games at the Team Bath Arena as the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold hosted fellow Super League clubs London Pulse and Saracens Mavericks. It was Pulse who took home the Lyn Gunson Trophy after beating Team Bath 36-26 and Mavericks 40-39, with...
