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

Team Bath Buccaneers top the table after perfect start to Jaffa Super 6s indoor season

The Team Bath Buccaneers men's 1st team are top of the tree this Christmas after a flawless first weekend of the Jaffa Super 6s indoor tournament, coming home from Bromsgrove with four wins fron four games. After successfully retaining their place in the top tier of English indoor hockey for the first time last season, Buccs got the new campaign off to a flying start as they beat Loughborough 5-2 thanks to some lethal finishing...

17 December 2017

Alumna Fran Wilson and England cricket colleagues win BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year award

University of Bath graduate Fran Wilson was part of the England women’s cricket team that was named as Team of the Year at the 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Wilson, who studied Sports Performance, helped England to victory in the Women’s World Cup Final during the summer. A multi-talented sportswoman, Wilson also captained the women’s football 1st XI during her time at the University of Bath and was voted as Sports Personality of...

17 December 2017

University of Bath’s three-match unbeaten run comes to an end in a tough bout against Loughborough

The University of Bath men’s 1st XV saw their three-match unbeaten run in BUCS Super Rugby come to an end as they were beaten 35-24 at Loughborough on Wednesday. A strong first half from Loughborough saw them run in four tries through fly-half Tom Ffitch, centre Quinten Koster, scrum-half Alex Glashan and number eight Charlie Kingham, three of which were converted. This was countered by touchdowns from Bath winger Levi Davis and hooker George Frampton in...

14 December 2017

Multitude of medals for University of Bath rowers at 2017 British Rowing Indoor Championships

Rowers at the University of Bath won a host of medals, four of them gold, when they competed at the 2017 British Rowing Indoor Championships at the Lee Valley VeloPark on London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It was a great day for members of Bath’s GB Rowing Team Start programme, coached by Dan Harris at the University and Minerva Bath RC, with Chemistry student Luke Gwenter taking the men’s U23 2k title, Santander Sporting Scholar...

13 December 2017