Lizzy Yarnold returns to World Cup circuit as skeleton and bobsleigh squads are announced

Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold will make her return to international competition in December after being named in the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA) World Cup squads for the 2016-17 season. Joining Yarnold on the skeleton circuit will be emerging talent Jack Thomas and the experienced duo of Laura Deas and University of Bath Mechanical Engineering PhD student Dom Parsons, who is supported by the Team Bath Dual Career programme. Lamin Deen, Brad Hall, Bruce Tasker...

31 October 2016

Olympian Heather Olver thanks University of Bath coach as she retires from badminton

University of Bath graduate Heather Olver has announced her retirement from badminton after an excellent career which saw her win three Commonwealth Games medals and represent Team GB at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Olver studied Coach Education & Sports Development from 2004 to 2007, with her time at the University being bookended by two memorable successes – team bronze with England at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games and victory with Bath in the prestigious...

30 October 2016

Team Bath Judo Development Camp gives youngsters the chance to train with Olympians

Promising young judoka from the West of England got to train alongside Olympians and international medallists when the University of Bath Sports Training Village hosted a Judo Development Camp on Tuesday. The half-term holidays allowed youngsters in the Western Area Development Squad and members of the Advanced Apprenticeship in Sports Excellence (AASE) programme to take to the mat with Team Bath’s high-performance group of GB judoka including Ben Fletcher, who fought at Rio 2016. They...

26 October 2016

University rugby alumni named in England Women squad for Autumn internationals

University of Bath alumni Natasha Hunt, Izzy Noel-Smith and Amy Wilson Hardy have all been named in the England Women rugby squad for next month’s Old Mutual Wealth Series. The Red Roses will entertain France, New Zealand and Canada during November, the latter being played at Twickenham following the men’s international against Argentina. They will also visit Dublin to face Ireland in a non-Series fixture. Sarah Hunter, who trains at the Sports Training Village, will...

26 October 2016

Happy 50th to University of Bath as thousands cheer 1st XV to third Super Rugby win

The University of Bath’s 50th anniversary was celebrated in fitting style as thousands of fans packed into The Rec to roar the men’s 1st XV to a 17-14 victory over Leeds Beckett University in the BUCS Super League. It was a third successive win for the Blue and Gold in the new national competition, following bonus-point successes against Northumbria and Loughborough, and moves them top of the early standings. Again they had to come from...

25 October 2016

Shield success for Bath University Boat Club at British Rowing Senior Championships

Steph Clutterbuck and Laetitia Tay brought home a trophy as the University of Bath Boat Club produced some impressive performances at the British Rowing Senior Championships in Nottingham over the weekend. Tay and Clutterbuck won the University Shield category in the women’s double scull on Saturday before teaming up with fellow student Laura Macro and Sport & Exercise Science graduate Sam Courty to win the B final and finish seventh overall in the quadruple scull...

24 October 2016

Ten of the best University of Bath-based swimmers selected for World Class Programme

Ten University of Bath-based swimmers – including three Rio 2016 Olympic medallists – have been selected to the British Swimming World Class Performance Programme for the 2016-17 season. Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn, who all won silver in Rio, have retained their place in the Podium programme along with fellow Olympian Andrew Willis. Six more British Swimming National Centre Bath athletes have been chosen for the Podium Potential programme – Sport Performance graduate...

23 October 2016

Fantastic forwards drive University of Bath to fine home win over Loughborough in BUCS Super Rugby

The University of Bath continued their winning start to the new BUCS Super Rugby season by recording a well-earned 28-17 home victory over Loughborough University on Wednesday. As in their opening match against Team Northumbria, the Blue and Gold fell behind – this time to a Will Kaye penalty and Joss Morgan try – before hitting back with two tries from hooker Tom Doughty. Prop Alex Wood further capitalised on the Bath pack’s dominance to...

19 October 2016

Bronze in Belgrade sends fencer Tom Edwards surging up the world rankings

University of Bath fencer Tom Edwards began his international season in fine style, by winning a bronze medal in epee at the Belgrade Trophy in Serbia. The result has massively increased the Santander Sports Scholar’s world ranking, lifting him from 952nd up to 283rd, and will provide him with an improved draw at the World Cup in Bern, Switzerland in two weeks’ time. Edwards, who studies Sport & Exercise Science and is supported by the Team...

19 October 2016

Sunshine Girl Vangelee Williams joins exciting young duo in Team Bath Netball Superleague squad

Jamaica international Vangelee Williams (left) and exciting rising stars Imogen Allison (centre) and Laura Rudland (right) have today been confirmed as the latest members of the Team Bath Netball squad for the 2017 Vitality Netball Superleague season. Highly-rated Williams, who can play either wing-defence or goal-defence, has appeared in every match for her country since making her debut in 2011 and helped them win bronze at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and finish fourth at...

18 October 2016