Super six more University-based sportspeople get Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth call

Another six University of Bath-based athletes representing four nations in three different sports will be heading out to Australia in April to compete in the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Sprinter Leon Reid has been named in the Northern Ireland athletics squad, while MJ Church ambassador Anna Hopkin, Jessica Fullalove and Cameron Kurle are in the second wave of swimmers selected by Team England following last month’s trials. Economics and Mathematics student Jessica Li, coached...

05 January 2018

Slider Dom Parsons refreshed and ready to work on improvements as Winter Olympic year gets under way

After recharging his batteries over the Christmas break, skeleton ace Dom Parsons is sliding into a Winter Olympic year confident of finding the improvements he needs to challenge for a medal in PyeongChang. The University of Bath Mechanical Engineering PhD student is currently ranked 12th in the BMW ISBF World Cup men’s skeleton rankings after the first five races of the 2017-18 season, with his best result being ninth place at Winterberg last month. Parsons admits...

03 January 2018

Creating impact: How Team Bath Gym and an inspirational trainer helped me cast off the crutches

From identifying a fitness goal to achieving her target and more, Carrie Fletcher's experiences in the Team Bath Gym are a motivational example of how New Year's Resolutions can have a profound and positive impact on their health and lifestyle. At the start of 2017, Carrie was using two crutches after a cycling accident but such is the improvement in her mobility and health - both physically and mentally - after working with personal trainer...

01 January 2018

Sporting scholar Tim Nurse ready to take next steps towards Olympic ambition with GB Hockey in 2018

Having gained his first Great Britain international hockey experience and won a major award during 2017, University of Bath student Tim Nurse is ready to continue both his sporting and academic education in the new year. The highly-rated 18-year-old will fly out to Portugal on January 2 for a four-day warm-weather training camp in Lisbon with the GB Men’s Elite Development Programme, a new scheme aimed at developing medal-winning Olympians of the future. It is...

28 December 2017

World wins, family fun and a royal return made 2017 memorable at Sports University of the Year

It was a year that saw the University of Bath named as the country’s top sports university, welcome royalty and thousands of families to the Sports Training Village and celebrate plenty more success on the national and international stage. Now, with a memorable 2017 coming to a close and the dawn of an exciting Olympic and Commonwealth year upon us, it is time to reflect on another outstanding 12 months at one of the country’s...

26 December 2017

World Cup debut boosts Winter Olympic hopes but Madelaine Smith is just “enjoying every minute” of skeleton progress

As a personal trainer in the Team Bath Gym, Madelaine Smith is no stranger to helping people achieve their goals. Now she could fulfill a major sporting ambition of her own in the new year after putting herself in the mix for Team GB selection for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Smith is a rising star of the hugely-successful British Skeleton programme, based at the University of Bath, and has made rapid progress since...

22 December 2017

Students identified as having Olympic potential as Pentathlon GB name performance athletes for 2018

University of Bath students Charlie Follett, Bradley Sutton (pictured) and Jess Varley have all been added to Pentathlon GB’s World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) for 2018. The trio – who study Psychology, Sports Performance and Natural Sciences respectively – are among ten athletes on the Podium Potential programme who have been identified as having the potential to win medals at major international events. Joanna Muir, Georgina Summers, Francesca Summers, Sam Curry and Tom Toolis are...

20 December 2017

Team Bath Arena hosts successful Table Tennis England Grand Prix event

More than 200 players from across the country were in action when the University of Bath Sports Training Village hosted the fourth Table Tennis England Grand Prix event of 2017-18. A busy weekend in the Team Bath Arena saw Sam Mabey beat Matt Leete 11-6 11-8 11-18 in the men’s singles final, while Hannah Hicks (pictured) retained her women’s singles title with a 11-6 11-8 11-7 victory over Patricia Ianau. Leete overcame his disappointment in...

19 December 2017

National champions and international athletes among exciting new cohort of University of Bath sporting scholars

Sixteen student-athletes who have already made their mark on the national and international stage are the latest intake of scholars to receive support on both their sporting and academic journeys from the University of Bath. This year’s cohort includes an England Rugby Sevens player, an international heptathlete from the United States, three Team Bath Netball stars, a British swimming champion and emerging talents in hockey, modern pentathlon, rowing, tennis and windsurfing. The talented group, who...

18 December 2017

Golden double for Anna Hopkin as University of Bath-based swimmers impress at Swim England National Winter Champs

Student Anna Hopkin claimed two national titles as University of Bath-based swimmers won 11 medals at the Swim England National Winter Championships in Sheffield. MJ Church ambassador Hopkin, who is also supported by a Thompson Education Trust sporting scholarship, was the first English swimmer home in both the 50m and 100m freestyle, clocking rapid times of 25.33 and 54.76 – a personal best – respectively. Hopkin, who represented GB at the World University Games this...

18 December 2017