Young people under the care of Bristol Children’s Hospital got to try out a wide range of accessible sports and fun activities when ‘Make a Move!’ returned to the University of Bath for a second successive year. The Team Bath Sports Training Village was buzzing as youngsters and their families had a go at archery, boxing, climbing, dance, golf, judo, rowing, wheelchair basketball and much more. Gold-medallist Amelia Coltman was on hand to help people...
Team Bath Judo’s Chloe Robyns-Landricombe and Sidney Tancock won gold and bronze respectively with brilliant performances at the Gaia Senior European Cup in Portugal. University of Bath graduate Robyns-Landricombe overcame Germany’s Soraya Guenther and Paula Lanza Chacoris of Spain on her way to the -52kg final. She saved her best performance until last, needing just 12 seconds to defeat Kazakhstan’s Tolganay Abeuova – ranked 59 in the world – by Ippon and claim the first...
Team Bath Netball have today announced an exhilarating blend of returning stars, pathway prodigies and inspirational new faces in their squad for the 2024 Netball Super League season. New to the Blue & Gold are shooters Sloan Burton and Emma Barrie, from Australia and Scotland respectively; Lisa Putt, a dynamic defender from New Zealand; and tenacious mid-courter Ellie Ervine, the latest player to progress from Team Bath’s Academy to Super League. Tash Pavelin makes a...
Kadeen Corbin is bringing her vast domestic and international experience to the Team Bath Netball coaching team for the 2024 Super League season. The Commonwealth Games gold-medallist, who has 72 caps for England and recently represented Barbados at the 2023 Netball World Cup, has been appointed as Technical Coach for the upcoming season – a new role which she will combine alongside her duties as a contracted squad member. Corbin will work with Head Coach...
Former University of Bath BUCS Super Rugby player David Costa will be representing Portugal when the 2023 Rugby World Cup takes place in France from Friday 8th September. The prop, who studied Management at the University, has been named in a 33-strong squad for the tournament which will see Os Lobos line up in a strong Pool C against Wales, Australia, Fiji and Georgia. Costa played for the University men’s 1st XV during the 2017-18...
Team Bath’s Jayda Pechova is in line to make her full England Netball debut after being selected for September’s international test series in New Zealand. The University of Bath Sports Performance student, who is supported by a Trendell Sporting Scholarship, is among seven potential debutants in a youthful Vitality Roses squad set to contest the Taini Jamison Trophy against the Silver Ferns. Goal-keeper Pechova, who was voted as Team Bath’s Most Valuable Player during the...
HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco has praised the “incredible sports complex” at the University of Bath after visiting the Laser-Run and Pentathlon World Championships 2023 in his role as UIPM Honorary President. Dr Klaus Schormann – President of UIPM (Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne), the world governing body of modern pentathlon – also hailed the championships, staged over 10 action-packed days at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, as a huge success. HSH Prince...
Pentathlon GB’s Joe Choong won gold on home soil and Italy’s Elena Micheli defended her women’s crown on a truly Super Sunday of UIPM Pentathlon World Championships finals action at the University of Bath. Olympic Champion Choong, who trains and studied at the University, had a 10-second lead going into the laser-run after strong riding, fencing and swimming performances but had to hold off a fierce challenge from Mexico’s Emiliano Hernandez before pulling away to...
Three Pentathlon GB athletes, including defending champion Joe Choong, will line up in a top-class men’s final at the University of Bath on Sunday when gold medals are decided at the UIPM Pentathlon World Championships 2023. Charlie Brown, a Sports Management and Coaching student at the University, showed no signs of nerves in his first senior World Championships as he produced a strong swim and laser-run to confidently progress through Semi-Final A. It was tighter...
Four home athletes will be lining up in the women’s final at the University of Bath on Sunday after a fantastic Friday of competition at the UIPM Pentathlon World Championships 2023. Pentathlon GB’s Kerenza Bryson, Olivia Green (both pictured), Jess Varley and Emma Whitaker all successfully negotiated the semi-finals and will be joined in the gold-medal showdown by defending champion Elena Micheli, of Italy, and 2013 World Champion Laura Asadauskaite, who won gold on her...
