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

Eight years on, graduate Marilyn Okoro is finally set to receive an Olympic medal

University of Bath graduate Marilyn Okoro is set to receive an Olympic medal as a result of retrospective drugs tests for athletes competing at the Beijing 2008 Games. Okoro was part of the Great Britain women’s 4x400m relay team that finished fifth in that year’s final, along with Christine Ohuruogu, Kelly Sotherton and Nicola Sanders. They have already been upgraded to fourth after Russia were disqualified in August of this year when Anastasiya Kapachinskaya tested...

26 November 2016

Improved second half gives men’s 1st XV positives to take from BUCS Super Rugby reverse

An improved second-half performance was not quite enough to prevent the University of Bath men’s 1st XV slipping to a 26-17 BUCS Super Rugby home defeat against University of Exeter on Wednesday. The hosts were slow to get into their stride in blustery conditions and allowed Exeter to open up an 11-0 lead at the break through Matt Elliet’s early try and two Ted Landray penalties. Landray and Hugo Stiles exchanged penalties in the opening...

23 November 2016

Champions crowned as world-class Bath Indoor Wheelchair Tennis Tournament concludes at University

Britain’s Lucy Shuker was among the winners as the University of Bath Sports Training Village hosted five fantastic days of world-class competition at the inaugural Bath Indoor Wheelchair Tennis Tournament. Shuker, a double Paralympic medallist from Taunton, maintained her unbeaten record with Diede de Groot of the Netherlands as they claimed the women’s double title with a 6-2 6-1 win over second seeds Marjolein Buis and Katharina Kruger in the final. De Groot also took...

21 November 2016