University of Bath student Vilikesa ‘Billy’ Sela has been named in the England Rugby squad for the 2026 Guinness Men’s Six Nations Championships. The Bath Rugby prop, who studies Sports Performance, is one of three uncapped players selected in the 36-strong squad by Head Coach Steve Borthwick, himself a Bath graduate and Hall of Fame for Sport inductee. Sela, at 20 years old, is the youngest player in the squad but has already gained plenty...
Thirteen bobsleigh and skeleton athletes who train at the University of Bath have today been selected to represent Team GB at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy. Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt, the only athletes to win gold on this season’s IBSF World Cup circuit, will go in the men’s skeleton, while GB has three Olympic debutants in the women’s skeleton – Amelia Coltman, Tabby Stoecker and Freya Tarbit. All five will be...
The University of Bath men’s 1st XV kicked off 2026 with an impressive 29-14 BUCS Super Rugby away win at Nottingham. It was a tricky first fixture after the Christmas break, with Nottingham sitting fourth in the table and the visitors – sponsored by Bath Building Society – missing several players on international duty. However, first-half tries from Oli Sedgwick, Claudius Wheeler (pictured) and Henry Bartlett, the latter two converted by James Beverley, gave Bath...
Confidence and ambition are high in the Team Bath Netball camp ahead of this week’s 2026 NXT Gen League season opener at home to London Pulse. A four-figure crowd is set to roar on the Blue & Gold at the Team Bath Arena on Friday (23rd) as they look to build on last year’s excellent runners-up finish and a productive pre-season training block. It is the second successive year that Team Bath have hosted the...
British Bobsleigh recorded two top-five finishes as they ended the 2025-26 IBSF World Cup season on a strong note in Altenberg, Germany. Brad Hall and his four-man crew, who train at the University of Bath, were the top non-home team on the notoriously tough track as they placed fourth overall, equalling their season-best result from Winterberg two weeks earlier. Hall, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett teamed up with Ben Simons on Run 1 and Leon...
Matt Weston will have chance to complete a full set of men’s skeleton titles at the Winter Olympics next month after securing his third successive IBSF Overall World Cup crown in Altenberg, Germany. Team-mate Marcus Wyatt joined him on the overall podium after producing two outstanding runs to win gold in the last World Cup of 2025-26 and Tabby Stoecker became the first British woman since double Olympic Champion Lizzy Yarnold to win an Overall...
A Para Lioness footballer, two England U20 rugby players and aspiring Olympians in artistic swimming, judo and sailing make up the inspirational cohort of University of Bath student-athletes to be awarded sporting scholarships for the 2025-26 academic year. Maria Slade, Diamond Ayiehfor, Tate Williams, Cara Zeidler, George Riley and Matthew Rayner will all benefit from scholarship funding to help them meet the demands of training, competing and studying at an elite level. They follow in...
British Bobsleigh secured their first medals of Olympic season when Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence finished a fantastic third in the two-man race in St Moritz. That result meant the University of Bath-based duo collected two bronze medals as the IBSF World Cup also doubled as the 2026 European Championships. It was the first time the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympians had raced together in the two-man since last year’s World Championships after a calf injury...
British Skeleton’s Matt Weston won his third gold medal in as many days as he added the European title to his World crown in St Moritz, while Tabby Stoecker won continental silver in the women’s race. Jacob Salisbury and Freya Tarbit also bagged European bronze in the team race, pipping compatriots Marcus Wyatt and Amelia Coltman to the podium by one-hundredth of a second. The penultimate IBSF World Cup before the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic...
Matt Weston extended his dominance of the 2025-26 IBSF Skeleton World Cup season into Olympic year by winning the rescheduled men’s race in St Moritz on Wednesday. The reigning World Champion, who trains with the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) at the University of Bath, set new start and track records during a blistering second run as he built on a rapid first outing to finish more than a second clear of the field...
