Sensational Superleague contest sees Team Bath Netball fend off Wasps to boost top-four hopes

Team Bath Netball produced an outstanding performance to hold off a fierce fightback from Wasps and record a memorable win in a sensational game of Vitality Netball Superleague at the University of Bath on Monday. The Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold were in fantastic form in both defence and attack as they forged into a 44-35 lead going into the final quarter of a match sponsored by The Royal High School, Bath, and shown live on...

08 May 2017

Team Bath Synchro Club win first-ever National medal as plans unveiled for unique and self-sustainable future

Star swimmer and Great Britain squad member Ilaria Brandimarte won the first major medal of Team Bath Synchronised Swimming Club's short history at the 2017 National Championships in late April as the club revealed its plans for leading the light in UK synchronised swimming. Brandimarte, who is also chairwoman of Team Bath Synchro Club, claimed bronze in the tech solo event with an "elegant" performance to contemporary Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi's 'Experience'. The medal was the Italy-born swimmer's...

08 May 2017

Team Bath AS swimmers bag many medals at South West Champs

Team Bath AS youth swimmers enjoyed a successful trip to Plymouth as they took on the best swimmers in the region at the annual South West Swimming Championships. The 24-strong squad shook up the competition, winning more medals than expected as they came home with 21 in total and a large number of personal best times. The team reached 55 finals in total, recorded seven top-ten finishes in the 400m events and four in the...

07 May 2017

What a day! Thousands enjoy family fun at first-ever University of Bath Festival

More than 8,000 people enjoyed an action-packed day of family fun when the University of Bath celebrated its 50th anniversary by staging its first-ever community Festival. There were activities across the Claverton Down campus, including the Active Zone at the £30million Sports Training Village where visitors got to try out 15 different sports and take on a Mini Olympics challenge. Team Bath Netball Superleague stars Shantal Slater and Vangelee Williams staged a shooting challenge and...

06 May 2017

Hockey star Peter Scott named Sports Personality of the Year at annual Blues Awards

England hockey international Peter Scott was named as the University of Bath’s Sports Personality of the Year at a Blues Awards ceremony attended by HRH The Earl of Wessex. Sports Performance student Scott, a Trendell Sports Scholar who made his senior England debut in March, topped a poll of Students’ Union Sport members from a shortlist that also included tennis player Emma Hurst and judoka Jan Gosiewski and Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz. Scott was presented with his...

04 May 2017

Silver for scholar Steph and novice rowers shine as Crew Bath impress at BUCS Regatta

Student rowers in the University of Bath Boat Club enjoyed a successful visit to the BUCS Regatta in Nottingham, coming home with three medals. Management Masters student Steph Clutterbuck, supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship, won a superb silver in the women’s single scull championship class. It was a great weekend for the novices as both the men and women’s coxed fours earned podium places. Their respective bronze and silver medals were the first won by...

04 May 2017

Paralympic swimming legend Sascha Kindred inducted into University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport

Seven-times Paralympic swimming champion Sascha Kindred returned to his former training base today to be inducted into the University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport. It was while training at the University that Kindred won the first two of his Paralympic gold medals at the Sydney 2000 Games – one of the key moments, he believes, in a stellar international career that started in 1994 and concluded with a world-record triumph at Rio 2016....

03 May 2017

Terrific turnaround at Surrey Storm extends Team Bath Netball’s winning run ahead of big Wasps test

Team Bath Netball will go into next week’s home match against Wasps on the back of three successive wins after coming from behind to record a hard-fought victory at Surrey Storm on Bank Holiday Monday. The 56-49 success moves the Sitec-sponsored Blue and Gold to within three points of defending champions Storm, who currently sit in the fourth and final play-off position with five games of the regular Vitality Superleague season remaining. Storm led 30-25...

02 May 2017

Record-breaking Cameron Chalmers helps Blue and Gold to eight medals at BUCS Athletics Champs

Cameron Chalmers smashed a 17-year-old BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championship record as University of Bath students came away from the Bedford International Stadium with eight medals. Sports Performance student Chalmers, supported by a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship, claimed his fourth successive BUCS 400m title – two indoor, two outdoor – in a rapid time of 45.71. “I’m so, so happy – I didn’t think I’d run that quick,” said Chalmers, coached by James Hillier. “I thought...

01 May 2017

Team Bath AS swimmer Laura McNab ready to make a splash for GB at European Junior Champs

Team Bath AS swimmer Laura McNab has been selected to represent Great Britain at the LEN European Junior Championships in Netanya, Israel, from June 28 to July 2. The Royal High School pupil earned her place in the 37-strong squad after producing stunning performances in the 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle junior finals at the recent British Swimming Championships in Sheffield, where she and club colleagues Ben Lawton, Charlie Head and Stella Cookson rubbed shoulders...

30 April 2017