More than 400 pupils from Bath and North East Somerset primary schools have been enjoying multi-skill movement sessions at the University of Bath over the past fortnight. Led by students and coaches, the sessions were delivered in racket, ball, balance and speed skills within the world-leading environment of the Sports Training Village. The festivals have been the culmination of a year of multi-skill delivery in the primary schools themselves delivered by University of Bath graduate...
University staff took advantage of a free offer to try new sporting activities at the Sports Training Village on Friday 27 January's opening Gold Rush event of the year. The Staff Gold Rush was held to celebrate six months to go to the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. It included an opportunity to try out a wide range of activities from bobsleigh on the push-start track to X-biking and from massage to netball. Jason...
Teenage athlete Amelia Hempleman-Adams is tackling a trip of a lifetime by taking part in a cross-country skiing expedition to the South Pole. The 16-year-old Team Bath AC high jumper is swapping her athletics shoes for a pair of skis to take part in the 97-mile expedition. The expedition aims to complete Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to reach the South Pole in 1909. Shackleton had to turn back 97 miles from the Pole –but this expedition...
A new chill out lounge for senior international levels athletes to relax in has opened its doors at the Sports Training Village. The athletes’ lounge alongside the Sports Café is open to some of the top performance athletes training at the University of Bath. It is kitted out with things to help athletes relax between their training sessions, including comfy sofas, bean bags, a couple of computer games consoles, an iPod docking station and a...
Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, has praised the University of Bath’s role in hosting ParalympicsGB’s Paralympic simulation camps. Around 100 British athletes from 11 sports have been attending the pre-London simulation camp, designed to familiarise them with the environment and systems they might experience at London. The Secretary of State visited the camp at the University of Bath Sports Training Village today (Friday) – three days before the one...
Student athletes and recent graduates from the University of Bath are representing Great Britain across a range of sports at the World University Games, which began in Shenzhen, China today (Friday). Footballer Gary Warren, who has just graduated from the University with a Post Graduate Certificate of Education, was in the thick of the action on day one of the Games. Warren, who is captaining the men’s football team, scored the opening goal for Team...
OLYMPIC and Paralympic hopefuls training in Bath and the South West have been given a boost in their preparations for 2012 with the opening of a new £100,000 Performance Gym dedicated to the requirements of world class athletes at the University of Bath. The new gym has been developed and funded by a partnership between the University, the English Institute of Sport (EIS), Sport England, UK Sport and TASS, and will provide priority access to...
Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams has officially opened the extensively refurbished Team Bath Gym at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Amy, who struck skeleton gold at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, performed the honours at the re-opening of the Team Bath Gym, which is bristling with brand new state of the art equipment. The 57 new pieces of cardiovascular equipment include a dozen treadmills, 11 cross-trainers and 10 rowing machines. There are...
Some of Britain’s top athletes will feature on air when BBC Radio 5 Live presents part of its One Year To Go until the start of London 2012 coverage from the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Wednesday 27 July. Eleanor Oldroyd will present a special One Year to Go edition of 5 Live Sport: London Calling from the Sports Training Village between 7.30pm and 9.30pm. The show is part of the BBC’s day...
University of Bath students Jordan Kenny and Rebecca Cook are due to arrive in Lusaka on Sunday (12 June) to kick-start this year’s IDEALS Zambia Project. The IDEALS (International Development through Excellence and Leadership in Sport) Project, now in its seventh year, uses sport as a vehicle for social development throughout underprivileged areas of the Zambian capital of Lusaka. Rebecca, a first year Coach Education and Sports Development student, will be on placement in Fountain...
