New PBs for King and Gale as student athlete Bethany Close earns first England call-up

David King got his outdoor season off to a flying start during an encouraging weekend of action for athletes who train at the University of Bath. The Sports Performance graduate, a sporting ambassador for Team Bath partners MJ Church, set a new personal best of 13.49 as he won his 110m hurdles heat at the Meeting Elite de Montgeron-Essonne in France before finishing runner-up in the final in 13.57. King, coached by James Hillier at...

15 May 2017

More Start success as emerging GB rowing duo earn first senior selection at Europeans

Frazier Christie and Sara Parfett are set to become the latest graduates of the successful GB Rowing Team Start Programme at the University of Bath to represent their country at a senior championships. Both have been selected in a 50-strong GB squad for the 2017 European Rowing Championships, taking place in Racice, Czech Republic, from May 26-28. They follow a trail blazed by some of the most famous names in the sport – double Olympic...

12 May 2017

Hot-shot Emma Stacey helps England to team silver at World Shooting Champs

University of Bath student Emma Stacey helped England win a superb team silver when she contested the CPSA/NSCA World English Sporting Clay-Pigeon Shooting Championships in the United States. The Politics & International Relations student, who is supported by a Santander Sports Scholarship, also finished 14th in the individual competition – a nine-place improvement on her previous Worlds showing – and was the top Brit with seventh spot in the main preliminary event. The championships took...

09 May 2017

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