Team Bath Buccaneers aim to book a place in England Hockey League Premier Division for the first time in their history this weekend. Head coach Jody Paul says he will have a full strength squad available for the first time this season for this weekend’s play-offs at Cannock.
Paralympic champion Liz Johnson says moving to train at the University of Bath took her out of her comfort zone - making her a better swimmer. Liz, who is coached at the University of Bath by Mark Skimming, says being surrounded by top athletes from a wide range of sports makes TeamBath an inspirational training environment. In an interview on the Inside World Parasport website, Liz says: "I train at the University of Bath, as...
Team Bath’s Chris Coles reached the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles at badminton’s World Junior Championships in Mexico. Coles and partner Matthew Nottingham beat the Korean pair of Bong Chan Jun and Ki Hwa Jung to book a quarter-final berth, but then went down to Denmark’s Kim Astrup and Rasmus Fladberg. In the mixed doubles Coles and partner Jessica Fletcher went out in their opening contest to Korea’s Ji Wook Kang and Hye In Choi,...
Three University of Bath-based swimmers were today (Tuesday) selected by Commonwealth Games England to compete at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. University of Bath swimmers Stacey Tadd and Richard Webb were named among 29 swimmers selected to represent England in Delhi, as was Chris Walker-Hebborn, who trains at the British Gas Intensive Training Centre (ITC) at Bath. All three feature in the initial group of swimmers selected for the Delhi Commonwealth Games, which take...
University of Bath graduates Heather Olver and Mariana Agathangelou joined forces to win the women’s doubles bronze medal at badminton’s European Championships in Manchester at the weekend. The pair went down to top seeds and eventual silver medallists Petya Nedelcheva (BUL) and Anastasia Russkikh (RUS) 21-18 21-13 in the semi-finals. Meanwhile Carl Baxter reached the quarter-finals of the men’s singles before losing to top seed Peter Gade from Denmark, who went on to win the...
The University of Bath men’s rugby team have reached the final of the Bath Combination Cup after a 27-22 semi-final victory over a spirited Walcot RFC. The University team were made to work hard for their win but eventually came through with some excellent teamwork. Trueman Sullivan, Peter Morallee, Paul John and Miles Davis scored tries with some accurate place kicking from Luke Giles and Chris Lewis contributing to Bath's 27 points Ian Thomas, captain...
Britain’s Mhairi Spence today (Sunday) won the bronze medal in a thrilling climax to the Medway modern pentathlon World Cup. It was the 24-year-old’s first World Cup medal and the first individual World Cup medal won by a Briton since the introduction of the new climax to the modern pentathlon, the combined run/shoot, at the start of last season. And in a terrific day for the British team – in which a record eight British...
Conference West champions Team Bath Buccaneers celebrate trophy with 4-2 win Team Bath Buccaneers men’s firsts celebrated collecting the England Hockey Conference West trophy with a 4-2 victory over second placed Whitchurch at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Conference West champions Buccs players were presented with the trophy and their medals by match official Peter Wood before the start of Saturday’s penultimate league game of the regular season. They now face play-offs in...
University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher secured a sixth place finish in the women's visually-impaired slalom on her Paralympic Games debut at Vancouver 2010 yesterday (Sunday). The 25-year-old Mathematics graduate, currently living in Bangor, County Down, is now looking forward to her preferred event, the giant slalom, on Tuesday. Eighth after her first run, she climbed a couple of places with a stronger second run. "I'm immensely proud. We were secretly hoping for top five...
Josh Green is the new U19 National men’s singles badminton champion but he had to beat his colleague and training partner, Ben Tier, in the national final to lift the trophy in Milton Keynes recently. Josh is currently studying on a sports apprenticeship course at Wiltshire College and trains as part of coach Pete Bush’s squad at the University of Bath alongside his opponent Tier who is studying for a foundation degree. Chris Coles, also...
