Team Bath’s netballers aim to build on their opening Fiat Superleague victory with back-to-back home games at the Sports Training Village. The reigning Superleague champions ran out comfortable 59-26 winners at Team Northumbria on Saturday (29 January). They aim to follow up that victory in home games at the University of Bath against Celtic Dragons on Thursday (3 February) and Loughborough Lightning on Monday (7 February). Team Bath, the four-times Superleague champions, tried out some...
Rachel Howard will head the Team Bath challenge at this weekend’s English National Badminton Championships in Manchester. Howard, a University of Bath Psychology graduate who trains at the University, is seeded two in the women’s singles. Top seed is Liz Cann, the bronze medallist at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. “Rachel has never made the semi-finals before at the English Nationals, but she’s playing well in training and is in good form,” said Pete Bush,...
University of Bath-based athlete Paul Blake rounded off his campaign at the International Paralympic Committee World Athletics Championships by striking gold in the T36 400m. Blake added gold on Saturday to the silvers he had already won in the 800m and 1500m on his overseas debut. It took the medal tally achieved by the University of Bath-based trio of Blake, Katrina Hart and Ben Rushgrove to eight of the 38 medals won by the Aviva...
University of Bath graduate Ben Rushgrove collected his second medal of the 2011 International Paralympic Committee World Athletics Championships today (Thursday) by taking bronze in the T36 200m. Rushgrove, who trains at the University with coach Rob Ellchuk, finished third in 200m final in Christchurch, New Zealand in 25.27 seconds. It means the three University of Bath-based athletes coached by Ellchuk have now medalled in each of the six events in which they have competed,...
Team Bath’s netballers get their 2011 Fiat Netball Superleague campaign underway with a trip to Team Northumbria on Saturday (29 January). The four-times Superleague champions are bidding to win an historic third successive title this season - and head coach Jess Garland said her 2011 squad are ready for the challenge. “We’re good to go,” she said. “It feels a bit like a pressure cooker at the moment and we can’t wait to get going....
A talented young Team Bath Academy footballer has been selected for the England Schools under-18 squad. Eighteen-year-old goalkeeper Ed Baldy is one of two keepers named in England’s 18-strong squad. Baldy has been at the Team Bath Academy for the last 18 months, where he combines training at the University of Bath with studying at Wiltshire College. He also plays for Bradford Town FC. Among fixtures in 2011 the England squad will contest the Centenary...
England Rugby’s Saxons Elite Player Squad are being put through their paces at a three-day training camp at the University of Bath. The squad are training at the University ahead of Saturday’s opening game of the season against Italy A at Worcester. Among the Saxons’ coaching team is former Bath and England full-back Jon Callard, who scored all of Bath’s points as they won the 1998 Heineken Cup Final. “I have many happy memories of...
University of Bath student Katrina Hart is celebrating after adding a world championship crown to the Commonwealth Games title she won last year. The 20-year-old Sports Performance student struck gold in the T37 200m at the International Paralympic Committee World Championships in Christchurch yesterday (Sunday). Today she added a bronze in the T35-38 4×100m relay. And there have also been a brace of silvers medals for University of Bath-based athletes too, with Ben Rushgrove collecting...
University of Bath sporting alumnus, Shelley Rudman, pipped her team-mate and great rival Amy Williams, the Olympic champion, to European gold in Winterberg today during the sixth Skeleton World Cup there which doubles as the European Championships. The world cup win was Rudman’s first of the season after four previous runners-up slots and put her in pole position on the international rankings. The now Sheffield-based but former Wiltshire athlete, who was talent spotted into the...
University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher has made a piece of history by becoming the first British athlete to win a World Championships medal in a Paralympic Alpine event. The Mathematics graduate and her guide, Charlotte Evans, took silver in the women’s visual-impaired slalom at Sestriere in Italy. "Charlotte helped me with getting down the slope really well, giving me really good instructions, so it was a good race," Gallagher said. Gold went to Henrieta...
