A host of University of Bath students, graduates and coaches played key roles as Bath Rugby ended their 17-year wait for silverware with an outstanding 48-14 victory over Exeter Chiefs in the 2024-25 Premiership Rugby Cup Final. Management student Tom Carr-Smith grabbed the first of seven Bath tries and Sports Performance alumnus Tom Dunn touched down twice on a perfect Sunday afternoon at Sandy Park. Joining Carr-Smith in the starting line-up were fellow students Jasper...
Reigning Olympic champions Tom Dean and Kieran Bird plus a quartet of sporting scholars are among the eight University of Bath-based swimmers confirmed on Aquatics GB’s World Class Programme (WCP) for the 2025 season. Bird and triple Olympic champion Dean, who both won men’s 4x200m freestyle relay gold for Team GB at Paris 2024, are joined on the Podium tier by Bath Performance Centre training partners Jacob Peters and Jacob Whittle. The Podium Potential athletes...
It was a historic weekend for University of Bath sporting scholar Ranjuo Tomblin as he won two breakthrough gold medals for Britain at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup season opener in Paris. The Sports Performance student, who is supported by a Trendell Sporting Scholarship, became the first British male to win a World Cup medal when he came out on top in a supremely contested Men’s Tech Solo competition, with less than a...
University of Bath sporting scholar Justin Davies continued his excellent season by winning 800m gold in fine style at the 2025 Microplus UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham. Sunday’s success, which followed on from Davies setting a new Welsh record of 1:45.78 the previous week at the inaugural Keely Klassic, secured the Team Bath AC runner a trip to the Netherlands for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships, taking place in Apeldoorn from 6-9 March....
Eight University of Bath students have now competed in the 2025 U20 Six Nations tournament after Connor Treacey and Tyler Offiah made their England age-group debuts against Scotland, while Jack Woods started for Wales. Treacey and Offiah, who study Sports Management & Coaching and Politics & International Relations respectively, came off the bench as England made it three wins from a three with a nine-try 57-13 victory. Two of those tries came from another student,...
University of Bath student-athletes won 21 medals, including gold in the swimming pool and on the athletics track, when they proudly represented The SU Bath at the BUCS Nationals 2025 in Sheffield. Sixteen of those medals were secured by the University’s swimming squad during an excellent weekend which saw them place third in the overall rankings. Alumni Fund Sporting Scholar Josh Gammon led the way with gold in both the 50m butterfly (23.72) and 200m...
Six University of Bath students have been selected for the 2025 U20 Men's Six Nations, with four of them being named in England’s match-day 23 for the tournament’s opening fixture against Ireland. Tighthead prop Billy Sela (Sports Performance), who helped England win the title in 2024, lines up in the front row alongside Sports Management and Coaching student Kepu Tuipulotu. The hooker will earn his first U20 cap in Thursday’s international, as will Economics with...
Students on the University of Bath performance netball programme are celebrating a first-ever BUCS Premier Division South title double. A wonderful Wednesday at the Team Bath Sports Training Village saw the 1st beat Exeter 68-37 to secure the Premier South 1 title, then unbeaten Bath 2nds defeat UCL 59-27 to clinch the Premier South 2 crown with a match to spare. It is the first year the student netball programme – led by Anya Le...
Olympic and Paralympic success in Paris is just one of the highlights of a truly monumental year of sport at the University of Bath. World Cup victories, European crowns, groundbreaking international debuts, emotional reunions, national accolades, innovative new partnerships and an extensive gym refurbishment are also among the many high points from an action-packed 2024. In total athletes brought 93 senior international medals back to their Team Bath training base, 17 of which were secured...
Team Bath Netball duo Alanna Pullen and Phoebe Maslen have been named in a 16-strong England U21 squad that will tour Australia in the new year. Former Blue & Gold stars Sophie Kelly and Jayda Pechova – who, like Pullen, are University of Bath student-athletes and supported by sporting scholarships – are also in an exciting squad that will face the host nation and New Zealand during a tournament taking place in Canberra from 17-23...
