Team Bath Netball Superleague Head Coach Anna Stembridge believes the 2022 Vitality Superleague will be the most competitive yet as her team prepare to face two aspiring top-four challengers during an intriguing Season Opener weekend. An exciting Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold squad will take to the court at Resorts World Birmingham on Saturday and Sunday (5th and 6th February) to face Strathclyde Sirens (1.45pm) and London Pulse (2.30pm) respectively. The matches will be broadcast...
Team Bath men’s 1st XV suffered a second last-gasp defeat of the BUCS Super Rugby season to South West rivals Exeter as a stunning second-half fightback came up just short. A poor start to the match saw the visitors concede three unconverted tries in the opening eight minutes, including one straight from the kick-off, as title-chasing Exeter raced into a 15-0 lead. Rengen-sponsored Team Bath managed to get a foothold in the game and, despite having to make early...
Team Bath Netball are “buzzing” to get the 2022 Vitality Superleague under way this weekend after a challenging but rewarding pre-season campaign. With nearly half of the squad having spells on international duty with England, South Africa and Wales, it has been an opportunity for several emerging stars to gain valuable court-time for the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold ahead of what promises to be a hotly-contested season. It begins with a Season Opener double-header...
Team Bath men's 1st XV are heading down the M5 today to face South West rivals Exeter as they kick-off a big couple of weeks in BUCS Super Rugby (2pm). Exeter sit second in the table, just behind Durham who are next to face Rengen-sponsored Team Bath at the Sports Training Village on Wednesday 9th February (6.30pm kick-off, free to watch). Team Bath suffered a last-gasp defeat when they entertained Exeter earlier in the season...
England star Imogen Allison says she is proud and “super excited” to be named as Team Bath Netball captain for the 2022 Vitality Superleague season. The inspirational wing-defence will be joined in a new-look Blue & Gold leadership group by Australian shooter Kim Borger, who wore the armband in 2020 and 2021, and fellow Roses internationals Sophie Drakeford-Lewis and Layla Guscoth. She may only be 23 years old but Allison, regarded as one of netball’s...
Olympic Champion Tom Dean and double Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Ben Proud are among the first 10 swimmers to be officially selected by Team England for Birmingham 2022. The University of Bath duo are joined in the initial squad for this summer’s Commonwealth Games by alumna Anna Hopkin, who made her international breakthrough by winning relay bronze at the event four years ago on Australia’s Gold Coast. He may have won two Olympic titles for Team...
A George Wootten try from the last move of the game sealed a remarkable comeback by Team Bath in a pulsating BUCS Super Rugby match against Cardiff University on Wednesday. The Rengen-sponsored men’s 1st XV found themselves 26-7 down after 20 minutes but cut the gap to five points by half-time. They then levelled twice in the latter stages of the second period, one of the tries completing a hat-trick for Alfie Garside, only for...
Jody Paul, Head of Hockey at Team Bath, will soon step into a new role at a national level. The former South African international and 2004 Olympian has been appointed as assistant coach to the GB and England senior women’s squads. He will transition into the role over the next two months before taking up fully. It is a great step up for this popular figure whose coaching journey began at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan...
BUCS Super Rugby returns after the festive break tonight, with Team Bath's first match of 2022 seeing them play host to Welsh rivals Cardiff at the Sports Training Village (6.30pm kick-off). The two teams are locked together on 24 points in the table with seven matches of the 2021-22 season remaining, so a good contest is on the cards. Hooker Jasper Spandler makes his debut for the Rengen-backed Team Bath men's 1st XV, while England...
The Jamaican bobsleigh team have been at the University of Bath this week to finalise their preparations for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Pilot Shanwayne Stephens and brakemen Nimroy Turgott, Ashley Watson and Matthew Wekpe have been honing their all-important start on the UK’s only outdoor push-start track, based on the University campus, and have also been working out in the Team Bath Gym & Fitness Centre. Jamaica will contest the four-man event at...
