Olympic swimmer Andrew Willis bags silver medal at World Championships short-course event

Rio Olympic Games swimmer Andrew Willis returned to the pool in style on Thursday (Dec. 8), winning Great Britain's second medal of the World Championships (25m) with silver in the 200m breaststroke.  University of Bath-based Willis, a Chemical Engineering graduate, showed his consistency to improve from heat to final and set a new personal best time of 2:02.71. He was beaten to the touch by Marco Koch (Germany) who won the gold. Mikhail Dorinov (Russia)...

09 December 2016

University of Bath trio win accolades at Sportswomen of the Year Awards

Rio Olympic Games medallists Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, Heather Stanning and Helen Glover each picked up honours at the Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Awards 2016 on Thursday evening. University of Bath-based swimmer O'Connor, a long-standing member of the hugely-successful British Swimming National Centre at the Sports Training Village, won Young Sportswoman of the Year after her outstanding silver medal in the 200m individual medley in Brazil. In doing so, Bath-born O'Connor broke her own British...

09 December 2016

Battling Bath put on spirited home display against BUCS Super Rugby table-toppers Hartpury

A thrilling West Country derby saw BUCS Super Rugby league leaders Hartpury College overturn a half-time deficit to beat the University of Bath 24-14 – after a spirited display from the home side. Two tries from Hartpury’s Harry Cochrane proved crucial in the visitors’ fight back after Bath scored within the opening minute to kick-start a fast-paced contest and went to the break 8-7 ahead. The result extends Hartpury’s lead at the top of the...

07 December 2016

Meet our latest sporting scholars – University of Bath supporting student-athletes in study and sport

The depth of talent among student athletes at the University of Bath has been demonstrated once again after 22 potential stars of the future were awarded sporting scholarships for the 2016-17 academic year. Competing in sports as diverse as alpine skiing, clay pigeon shooting, modern pentathlon and rowing, all have demonstrated their potential to succeed both academically and on the national and international sporting stage. Among those selected are Team Bath Netball and England U21...

06 December 2016

Tennis scholar Emma Hurst helps Britain bag bronze at Master’U BNP Paribas tournament

University of Bath sporting scholar Emma Hurst helped Great Britain win a bronze medal at the Master’U BNP Paribas tennis tournament in France. Barry Scollo, Director of Tennis at Team Bath, was part of the British coaching team for the annual event which sees the world’s top eight university tennis nations battle it out over three days. An exciting start saw Britain edge out host nation France 4-3 in the quarter-finals thanks to a 10-7...

05 December 2016

Olympic swimmers return to short-course action on World and National stage

Andrew Willis returns to the international stage for the first time since the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this week when he represents British Swimming at the FINA World Short-Course Championships in Canada. The University of Bath Chemical Engineering graduate, part of the highly-successful British Swimming National Centre at the Sports Training Village, will compete in the 200m breaststroke on Thursday (December 8). Willis – who missed out on a medal in Rio by just eight-hundredths...

05 December 2016

Lizzy Yarnold so close to comeback medal as sliders hit top ten at Whistler World Cup

Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold was just one-hundredth of a second shy of a bronze medal on her return to international action as the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA) contested the first World Cup of the season.  Yarnold, in her first appearance since winning Skeleton World Championship gold in March 2015, finished two places ahead of team-mate Laura Deas in the women’s competition at Whistler, Canada. University of Bath Mechanical Engineering PhD student Dom Parsons...

04 December 2016

Lizzy Yarnold back on the ice as British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association start World Cup season

Olympic Champion Lizzy Yarnold returns to the international skeleton circuit for the first time in 21 months today (Friday) when the 2016-17 skeleton and bobsleigh World Cup season gets under way in Whistler, Canada. Yarnold, who trains with the University of Bath-based British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA), won World Championships gold on her last competitive outing in March 2015 before taking a season off to recharge her batteries. “I've come back feeling refreshed, recharged...

02 December 2016

University of Bath Men’s 1st XV get back to winning ways in BUCS Super Rugby

Five changes to the starting line-up, including a new-look front row, helped the University of Bath's Men's 1st XV to a 15-13 win at Cardiff Metropolitan University on Wednesday night. Victory saw the University leap-frog their Welsh opponents into fifth place in the BUCS Super Rugby table with games in hand over all other league teams. The Blue and Gold initially went behind early on after a Tom Morgan penalty put the home team 3-0 ahead...

01 December 2016

Team Bath new girl Vangelee Williams helps Sunshine Girls eclipse England Netball at Copper Box

New Team Bath Netball recruit Vangelee Williams played an impressive role in an outstanding defensive display as Jamaica beat England 66-49 in the opening match of the tri-Test series. The Sunshine Girls were trailing 16-12 after the first quarter at the Copper Box Arena in London but staged a stunning comeback, inspired by Williams stealing possession from the centre pass at the start of the second period. Jhaniele Fowler-Reid produced a shooting masterclass for the...

30 November 2016