Professor Bernie Morley, Acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Bath, will officially open the new Team Bath Gym & Fitness Centre on Tuesday, February 26 during a free taster day open to all. Olympic Champion Amy Williams and Rugby World Cup winner Lewis Moody will also be special guests on the day and will be leading coaching sessions for visitors in the new two-tier extension. It will more than double the existing gym capacity...
Today’s jousters are the ultimate all-round athletes, combining similar levels of fitness and strength to a professional footballer, a top tennis player and a Formula 1 driver, according to research by the Team Bath Physio & Sports Science Centre. As part of the pre-season preparation for jousting tournaments at castles across the country, English Heritage jouster Roy Murray was put through his paces by Applied Sports Scientist Jonathan Robinson at the University of Bath, undergoing a...
Fresh from their tri-tournament success this weekend the Team Bath Netball family has welcomed a new member in Centurion Wealth Management. The Corston-based firm of financial and wealth management advisers will support the team with finance aimed particularly at developing the team’s performance analysis capabilities. “Team Bath Netball is already a strong force nationally as well as a high-achieving local team. We wanted to reward and help develop that excellence by providing the netballers with...
University of Bath strength and conditioning coach Bob Smith is looking for people to run alongside him when he takes on his 50th fundraising half-marathon of 2016 later this month. While Bob will once again be running 13.1 miles, as he has done every week this year to support Bristol Children’s Hospital, other people can join him for as much of the challenge as they like – from 1km through to the full distance. The...
Jake Samuel, James Morrissey, James Odagi and Jan Gosiewski are the latest University of Bath students who will be helping to enrich the lives of young Africans through the power of sport, leadership and education. The quartet have been selected for the inspirational Volunteer Zambia project, which is now in its 12th year and sees students working in villages to provide sporting opportunities for youngsters, develop community sport programmes and mentor volunteers in coaching roles....
Make it a Blue and Gold festive season with the Team Bath Christmas Sale, with up to 70 per cent off kit in the Team Bath Store. It gets under way on Black Friday (November 25) and will conclude on Saturday, December 3. All kit is included in the sale apart from SU kit, swimwear and non-clothing items. All sale items are exchange only and the sale is taking place in the Team Bath Store...
University of Bath students are once again preparing to fly out to Africa to take part in the Zambia IDEALS project. It is the 11th summer that students from Bath have participated in the scheme, which sees them work in a sports development and coaching capacity at the heart of local communities in the Zambian capital of Lusaka. BSc Sports Performance student George Lavender took part last year and is returning to Zambia this summer as...
Dr Tom Hudson, the pioneer of sporting scholarships in British universities, today became the fourth inductee into the Team Bath Hall of Fame for Sport. Hudson, who served in the Director of Sport role at the University of Bath from 1971 to 1992, was a passionate advocate of helping students achieve at the highest level of sport while continuing successfully with their academic studies. He also represented Great Britain in modern pentathlon at the 1956...
University of Bath students past and present have flown out to Zambia to take part in this year’s “life-changing” UK Sport IDEALS programme. It is the tenth anniversary of the scheme, which sees aspiring coaches spend six weeks delivering PE lessons in schools and villages, as well as set up sporting competitions between neighbouring communities. Footballer Alice Evans, a Wales international goalkeeper, and netballer Jade Traynor – second-year students in Sports Performance and Sports Science...
Combining study and high-performance sport can be a challenge – and one that becomes even tougher if you are an unfunded athlete. But the University of Bath Dual Career programme is helping to take the stress out of pursuing both sporting and academic excellence. And it is clearly having a positive impact, with current student athletes enjoying national and international success across a host of sports during 2014/15 including badminton, skiing, sailing, tennis and fencing....
