Sevens star Chantelle Miell back on England duty as Rugby Europe Grand Prix series begins

University of Bath student Chantelle Miell has once again been selected in the England Women Rugby Sevens squad for the first leg of the Rugby Europe Women’s Grand Prix Series. The Malemort Sevens, taking place in France on June 17-18, and the second leg in Kazan, Russia, on July 8-9 provide England with their final chance to qualify for next year’s HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens in San Francisco. Sport & Exercise Science student Miell, who...

13 June 2017

These girls can! University hosts Girls’ Day School Trust athletics tournament

More than 1,000 pupils from across the country flocked to the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Monday to compete in the annual Girls’ Day School Trust athletics tournament. The action-packed event, hosted by The Royal High School Bath, featured girls from Year 5 through to Year 10 and above contesting hurdles, sprints, relays and middle-distance events on the outdoor athletics track. Events on the in-field included high jump, long jump, javelin, shot, discus...

12 June 2017

Sporty pupils serve up a treat as Team Bath hosts mini tennis tournament

Dozens of children had an ace time at the University of Bath Sports Training Village as they took part in the Bath & Keynsham Primary School Sports Association mini tennis tournament. Pupils in Years 3 and 4 – representing eight schools and competing in 16 teams of two boys and two girls – took to the indoor courts at the £30million facility for an action-packed afternoon. It was a qualifying event for the Summer School...

12 June 2017

Pride and positives as Team Bath Netball end Superleague season on a battling note

Team Bath Netball had to settle for a fourth-placed finish in the 2017 Vitality Superleague season after being edged out in a hard-fought bronze-medal match against Manchester Thunder on Sunday. The title might not have been on the line after Saturday’s semi-final setbacks but that did not stop both teams serving up a cracking contest for the Final Four fans in the Birmingham Arena. However, despite a battling effort from the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold,...

11 June 2017

Team Bath Netball’s Grand Final hopes dashed by Lightning strike in Birmingham

Battling Team Bath Netball saw their chances of winning a sixth Vitality Superleague title ended by an excellent Loughborough Lightning side in the Final Four semi-finals at Birmingham on Saturday. After a nervy start, the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold held their own against table-topping Loughborough for much of the first half and closed the gap to 25-21 at one point. However, Lightning pushed ahead again just before the break and then really turned the screw...

10 June 2017

London calling – Bath trio in GB squad for IPC World Para Athletics Championships

University of Bath-based athletes Paul Blake, Sophie Kamlish and Polly Maton have been named in the 49-strong British squad for the IPC World Para Athletics Championships London 2017. The trio, who train at the Sports Training Village, are no strangers to the international stage having all competed at the Rio 2016 Paralylmpic Games, where Blake struck gold in the T36 400m and silver in the 800m. He also won two medals at the London 2012...

07 June 2017

New addition to coaching team at British Swimming National Centre Bath

Mike Taylor has joined the world-class coaching staff at the British Swimming National Centre based at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Taylor, who began his coaching career with the City of Sheffield, will work alongside David McNulty and Jol Finck with a training group that includes Olympic medallists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Chris Walker-Hebborn and James Guy. “When I saw there was an opportunity to work with British Swimming, I was very excited...

06 June 2017

Murray and Cooke crowned as British Champs as Laser-Run City Tour makes successful UK debut

Olympians Samantha Murray and Jamie Cooke took the titles when the University of Bath played host to the 2017 British Modern Pentathlon Championships on Sunday. An action-packed day at the Sports Training Village also saw members of the public take part in the first-ever Laser-Run City Tour event to be staged in the UK. The University is the long-term home to Pentathlon GB’s National Training Centre, so it was against a familiar backdrop that London...

05 June 2017

Team Bath Netball through to Superleague finals weekend despite last-day defeat at Wasps

Team Bath Netball have booked their place in the Vitality Superleague Final Four, despite seeing their winning run come to an end at Wasps Netball on Saturday. Surrey Storm’s 71-63 defeat at table-topping Loughborough Lightning meant they were unable to take advantage of the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold’s 49-35 loss earlier in the evening. The results on the final day of the regular season meant that Team Bath finished fourth overall, three points clear of...

03 June 2017

World number one among pentathlon stars competing in British Champs at University of Bath

Kate French will go into this weekend’s British Open Modern Pentathlon Championships at the University of Bath with confidence high after finishing the 2017 UIPM World Cup series ranked as the women’s number one. The Rio 2016 Olympian competed in three of the competitions this year, winning gold in Cairo and silver in Los Angeles as well as placing sixth in Kecskemet, Hungary. She is among the country’s top modern pentathletes competing in the British...

01 June 2017