Undefeated Team Bath Buccaneers promoted to premier indoor hockey league

Team Bath Buccaneers' Super 6s team sealed back-to-back promotions on Sunday (January 17) after crucial wins over Doncaster and Surbiton. Led by former indoor goalkeeper and current outdoor assistant Jon Williams, the Buccaneers finished the season with a record of six wins and two draws from eight games. The Buccaneers' top-two finish sealed an impressive campaign towards the top flight of indoor hockey in the country. The road to the premier league started with victories over Southgate and...

20 January 2016

BBSA’s Dominic Parsons up to sixth in world rankings after strong performance in Park City

University of Bath graduate Dominic Parsons finished seventh for the third time this term as he led the way for Great Britain in Saturday’s World Cup skeleton action in Park City. Parsons, who trains at the Sports Training Village, produced a fine second run to move up from ninth after Heat 1 in heavy snow and strong winds in Utah. Britain’s No.1 male slider now sits sixth in the world rankings with three World Cup...

19 January 2016

Team Bath judoka Gary Hall adds to British success with medal on world stage

Following the successful defence of his -90kg title at the British Judo Championships in December, Gary Hall followed up with a bronze medal at the Tunis African Open in Tunisia on Sunday (January 17). The tournament was a ranking event, meaning Hall's medal moved him up the judo world rankings and a step closer to qualification for Rio 2016 this summer. Elsewhere, Team Bath's Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz, who is supported by a King Scholarship, successfully followed up her own British Championships...

18 January 2016

Sporting scholar Lloyd Wallace ready to unleash triple twisting triples on aerial skiing circuit

After making history during 2015, University of Bath sporting scholar Lloyd Wallace has been working on a new move as he looks to continue his progress on the international aerial skiing stage. The Sports Performance student, who won Britain’s first-ever Europa Cup Aerials gold last year, has been hard at work in the world-class Sports Training Village gym and on the ski slopes of Switzerland as he prepares for the 2016 campaign. “I did triples...

15 January 2016

Olympic year starts with trip to Flanders Speedo Cup for University of Bath-based swimmers

London 2012 finalist Andrew Willis leads a five-strong University of Bath-based contingent in the British Swimming squad for next week’s Flanders Speedo Cup in Belgium – the first overseas event of the Rio 2016 Olympic year. Chemical Engineering graduate Willis, a bronze-medallist at last month’s European Short-Course Championships, is joined in the 34-strong squad by fellow National Centre Bath swimmers Charlie Attwood and Joe Hulme. Jay Lelliott and Miles Munro – who are studying Sports...

13 January 2016

England call on former Team Bath Buccaneers players for EuroHockey Indoor Championships

A quartet of former Team Bath Buccaneers Hockey Club players have been named in the England squad for the EuroHockey Indoor Championships, which start in Portugal on Friday. George Farrant and Jonny Kinder, both Sports Performance graduates from the University of Bath, are joined in the 12-strong squad by Ed Horler and Toby Reynolds-Cotterill, who came through the Buccaneers’ junior ranks. They will be looking to help England, coached by Andy Halliday, make an immediate...

12 January 2016

Samantha Murray and Jamie Cooke win Pentathlon GB National Ranking Competition at University of Bath

Samantha Murray and Jamie Cooke were in dominant form when the University of Bath staged the second Pentathlon GB National Ranking Competition of the Rio 2016 Olympic season on Saturday. London 2012 silver-medallist and former World Champion Murray, a French & Politics graduate, led throughout the women’s competition after recording the best results in the London 2012 Legacy Pool and the Sports Training Village fencing salle. She also only dropped eight penalty points in the horse...

11 January 2016

Another Skeleton World Cup medal for Laura Deas as GB bobsleigh men go mighty close to podium

University of Bath-based slider Laura Deas won another medal and the GB four-man bob missed out by just four-hundredths of a second during a highly-encouraging start to 2016 for the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association (BBSA). Five medals were also won by Britain’s young bobsleigh athletes in St Moritz, including a clean sweep of podium places in the women’s race, as GB continued their dominance of the Winter Youth Olympic qualifying competition. Deas, who won...

11 January 2016

International Paralympic Committee name wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver as potential star of Rio 2016

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has named University of Bath-based wheelchair fencer Piers Gilliver among its ‘Ones to Watch’ athletes ahead of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Gilliver is currently ranked as the number one epee fencer in the world after an excellent 2015 that saw him win two World Cup gold medals, two Grand Prix titles and silver at the IWAS World Championships. The 21-year-old is one of six wheelchair fencers picked out by...

06 January 2016

Heather Stanning reflects on her time at University of Bath after winning Athlete of the Month award

Olympic, World and European rowing champion Heather Stanning has praised the University of Bath after being named as Athlete of the Month by World Rowing. In an interview with the sport’s governing body, Stanning reflected on how she took up rowing while studying Sports Technology and how her degree has had a positive impact on her outstanding sporting career. “I was identified by [coach] Paul Stannard for the [GB Rowing Team] Start Programme,” she recalled....

05 January 2016