Student sports teams at the University of Bath are taking their match and training analysis to the next level thanks to a new partnership with PlayerData. Football, hockey and rugby coaches at the University are able to have near instant access to a whole range of performance-enhancing data about their players including total distance run, top speed, number of high-intensity bursts and heatmaps showing their positioning on the pitch. PlayerData, as Official Sports Data Partner...
Team Bath held off a late comeback from old rivals Loughborough to edge out the BUCS Super Rugby leaders by a single point on a wet and windy Wednesday evening at the Sports Training Village. The men’s 1st XV, sponsored by Bath Building Society, treated their hardy supporters to another strong display in challenging conditions as they went 36-21 up with 10 minutes to go, Luca Mignot scoring 24 points and Bath Rugby Academy player...
Team Bath treated a nearly 6,000-strong crowd at The Rec to one of their best-ever BUCS Super Rugby performances as they stormed to a 40-13 victory over reigning champions Durham in the Rengen-sponsored Anniversary Game. The men’s 1st XV were in outstanding form throughout, feeding off the energy of a vocal crowd to dominate for much of the 80 minutes and run in five tries through Ludo Kolade, Jasper Spandler, George Doel, Archie Griffin and...
Team Bath’s BUCS Super Rugby match ended in disappointment last night with a defeat against Cardiff Met at the Team Bath Sports Training Village. The men’s 1st XV, sponsored by Bath Building Society, started well and the game was fairly evenly matched, but it was Cardiff Met who broke the deadlock at 23 minutes, with a try by Bradley Roderick-Evans and a conversion, for a 7-0 lead. The visitors continued to apply pressure to try to...
Team Bath recorded their first win of the 2022-23 BUCS Super Rugby season in fine style as they beat Leeds Beckett 24-5 in Yorkshire on Wednesday afternoon. The Bath Building Society-sponsored men’s 1st XV got off to a strong start as co-captain Tom Williams and England U20 international Jasper Spandler both scored tries from driven lineouts in the opening stages. Bath Rugby Academy winger Byron Lloyd-Gilmour then finished off some good wide attacking play and...
Team Bath’s opening match of the 2022-23 BUCS Super Rugby season ended in a frustrating single-point defeat as Cardiff claimed the spoils from the last play of the game at the Team Bath Sports Training Village. An 800-strong Freshers’ Week crowd saw the men’s 1st XV, sponsored by Bath Building Society, battle back from a 17-7 half-time deficit to lead 21-17 as George Doel and Max Pearce added to an early try from co-captain Alfie...
An England women's squad featuring University of Bath student Grace Crompton and graduate Amy Wilson Hardy had to settle for an eighth-placed finish at the Rugby World Cup 7s tournament in South Africa. Both players were on the scoresheet during Friday's 29-5 win over Spain, which was preceded by a period of silence following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A tough 21-0 defeat to Australia in the Championship Quarter-final sent England into...
James Guy won the 12th medal of his Commonwealth Games career and Freya Anderson secured her third podium place in as many days as University of Bath-based swimmers continued their excellent form at Birmingham 2022 on Sunday. British Swimming Performance Centre Bath star Guy produced a brilliant swim from the outside lane to win bronze in the 200m butterfly at Sandwell Aquatics Centre. The last race of the evening saw Anderson, also coached by David...
Six medals were won by swimmers from the University of Bath – one gold and five silver – on a super Saturday night in the pool on day two of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Ben Proud of the University’s swimming club reclaimed the 50m butterfly title he had won at Glasgow 2014 and sporting scholar Tom Dean took silver in his latest epic 200m freestyle battle with Scotland’s Duncan Scott. Dean grabbed a second...
Swimmers Tom Dean, Freya Anderson and Ed Mildred became the first University of Bath-based athletes to win medals at Birmingham 2022 as they helped Team England to mixed 4x100m freestyle relay silver on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games. Dean and Anderson, of the British Swimming Performance Centre based at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, teamed up with fellow Olympic Champion Anna Hopkin – a University of Bath alumna – and Lewis Burras...
