Team Bath Netball determined to bounce back quickly when they welcome top-four rivals Loughborough Lightning to STV

Team Bath Netball will be looking to take inspiration from one of their best performances of the 2019 Vitality Superleague season so far when they take on top-four rivals Loughborough Lightning in a crunch home match on Friday (7.30pm centre-pass, click here to buy tickets). The Sitec-sponsored Blue & Gold produced an eye-catching display to convincingly win the reverse fixture back in February – the perfect response to a disappointing setback in their previous match...

09 April 2019

Blue & Gold reign in the rain as they wrap up fourth Varsity victory against Cardiff Met

Sporting students from the University of Bath are celebrating after winning their annual Varsity fixture against Cardiff Met for the fourth year running. It was a tightly-fought contest in the Welsh capital but, after 21 matches across 15 sports, the Blue & Gold finally took the honours by 59 points to 52. The SU Bath Sports Officer Andy Galloway said: “It was yet another fantastic Varsity over at Cardiff this year, with a record number...

04 April 2019

Bath students Jack Kenningham and Will Partington earn call-up to England Students rugby squad for French tests

Team Bath BUCS Super Rugby players Jack Kenningham and Will Partington are celebrating today after being called up to England Students to play their French counterparts later this month. The home fixture is on Sunday April 14 at Chester RFC, with the reverse away fixture billed for April 19 at the Stade Gilbert Santiago in Barbezieux-St Hilaire. Fleet-footed Partington, a prolific points kicker for Team Bath, plays at full-back but has also featured on the...

03 April 2019

Brilliant Blue & Gold quell Storm to secure place at 2019 Fast5 All-Stars tournament

Team Bath Netball emerged from their Monday-night away trip to Surrey Storm with a win, a move back into the top four of the Vitality Superleague, a place in October’s Fast5 at the Copper Box Arena and the opportunity to give a fuller squad on-court time.  The victory was also a chance to avenge January’s home defeat to Storm. Laura Rudland, brought on early at wing-attack after a knock to Rachel Shaw, Leila Thomas, the...

02 April 2019

Windsurfer Sarah Jackson adapts quickly to claim top-ten finish in new hydrofoil discipline at national ranking competition

University of Bath windsurfer Sarah Jackson recorded a top-ten finish in a relatively new discipline when the first national ranking competition of 2019 took place at the National Sailing Academy in Weymouth and Portland. After a frustrating first day of competition saw racing abandoned due to a lack of wind, Sports Performance student Jackson – who is a MJ Church Ambassador and supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship – turned her attention to hydrofoiling. “It...

01 April 2019

Hawks flying high as University touch rugby players add National Series crown to regional and international titles

The University of Bath secured the University National Touch Rugby Series (UNTS) overall title as they claimed victory at the last tournament of the season. Having won three of the four previous tournaments this season, the Hawks only needed to make the semi-finals to guarantee overall series victory but they ensured they finished an excellent season – in which they lost just one of their 55 matches – in fitting style. The tournament was split...

30 March 2019

Sochi 2014 Olympic bronze medal finally confirmed for British four-man bobsleigh team

Four more athletes who trained at the University of Bath have joined the ranks of Olympic medalists after John Jackson’s four-man bobsleigh crew were upgraded to the bronze-medal position at Sochi 2014. Jackson, Stu Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon originally finished fifth in Russia five years ago, just 11 hundredths of a second outside the medal spots at the sport’s showpiece event. The subsequent disqualification of the home nation’s gold-medal winning and fourth-placed sleds...

29 March 2019

Despite some sparkling moments it was semi-sadness for Bath at Hartpury

Unable to capitalise on their form from two earlier-season league victories over Hartpury, the Blue and Gold of the University of Bath slipped to BUCS Super Rugby semi-final despair in Gloucestershire on Wednesday evening. In truth the 37-27 victory for Hartpury, playing at home, was deserved and founded largely on a consummate first-half in which their battling attack got the upper hand.  The Gloucester-based player-scholars had also done their defensive homework allowing them to repel...

28 March 2019

Chile triumph for Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz as Team Bath judoka wins first Continental gold at Panamerican Open

Team Bath judoka Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz claimed the first Continental Open title of her career when she struck gold at the Santiago del Chile Panamerican Open. The University of Bath Sports Performance graduate, who represents Mexico on the international stage, overcame Argentina’s Agustina De Luca and Hannah Martin of the United States on her way to the -63kg final. She then defeated Ecuador’s Estefania Garcia to secure the gold medal, an improvement on the bronze she...

26 March 2019

Students Ben Jones and Louis Newman double up to win bronze medal at national BUCS tennis tournament

University of Bath students Ben Jones and Louis Newman teamed up to bring home bronze from the BUCS [British Universities & Colleges Sport] Tennis Doubles Championships in Nottingham. Chemistry student Jones, who is supported by a Buchan Jones Sports Scholarship, and Team Bath Dual Career athlete Newman, a first-year Economics student, missed out on a place in the final by the narrowest of margins after going down 4-6 6-2 11-9 to Nottingham’s Jamie Praditngam and...

26 March 2019