Team Bath Netball looking to finish 2014 Superleague season strongly following semi-final defeat

Team Bath head coach Jess Thirlby wants her team to end their ZEO Superleague campaign on a high note with a stylish and classy performance to secure third place in Saturday’s play-off game. The team tackle Hertfordshire Mavericks in a battle for third after going down 43-37 to Manchester Thunder in Monday night’s semi-final. “We have to pick ourselves up and finish the season as strongly as we can,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to...

23 April 2014

Bath-based Olympic swimming medallist Michael Jamieson named in Scotland team for Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

University of Bath-based swimmer and graduate Michael Jamieson was today (Wednesday) named in the Scotland team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 25-year-old, who trains at the British Gas National Centre for Swimming at the University, will contest the 100m and 200m breaststroke at the Games. He won silver for Scotland in the 200m breaststroke at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealths and followed that up with silver for Great Britain at the London...

16 April 2014

Pentathletes Jo Muir and Joe Choong win gold and silver at junior international

Two University of Bath students and promising pentathletes produced strong performances to secure podium places at the Milan Kadlec Memorial junior international competition in Prague at the weekend. Nineteen-year-old Jo Muir won gold in the women’s event, while Joe Choong (pictured), aged 18, took silver in the men’s competition. Muir, who is originally from Dumfries and studies Sports Performance at the University of Bath, achieved personal bests in the swimming and fencing, and won the...

14 April 2014

Team Bath Netball defeat Loughborough Lightning to set up Superleague semi-final showdown with Manchester Thunder

Team Bath will travel to Manchester Thunder in the ZEO Netball Superleague semi-final after beating Loughborough Lightning 63-41 in tonight’s last home fixture of the 2014 season. That result, and the results from tonight’s other Superleague games, means Team Bath will end the regular season in third place, giving them an away semi against Thunder, who were confirmed in second place tonight. First Team Bath play one more game in the regular season, a trip...

08 April 2014

Team Bath’s netballers get back to winning ways to book Superleague semi slot

Team Bath's Zeo Superleague side got back to winning ways tonight with a ten-goal 59-49 win over Yorkshire Jets at the University's Sports Training Village. The win secured a semi-final berth with one match still to play in the league phase of this year's event. Team Bath did the main damage in the second quarter, flying into a 27-19 lead from 18-16. Team Bath had come into today's fixture after a dramatic draw with Mavericks...

03 April 2014

Team Bath take the point in topsy-turvy Superleague draw with Mavericks

Team Bath's Zeo Superleague Head Coach Jess Thirlby is determined that her players should take "every piece of learning possible" from a topsy-turvy 49-49 home draw against Hertfordshire Mavericks. The home side turned round a seven-goal deficit at half-time to lead 48-46 with under three minutes to go at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. A couple of unforced errors and a missed final-second attempt on goal allowed Mavericks to sneak back and snatch...

28 March 2014

Team Bath Netball keep Superleague semi-final hopes alive with excellent away win over Manchester Thunder

Team Bath closed the gap at the top of the ZEO Netball Superleague with an impressive 55-51 win at second placed Manchester Thunder last night (Monday). The result keeps alive hopes that Team Bath could secure a top-two finish at the end of the regular season, and with it home advantage in the semi-finals. Last night’s win puts Team Bath just two points behind Thunder in third with four Superleague fixtures remaining, starting with the...

25 March 2014

Battling Team Bath Netball slip to Superleague home defeat against Surrey Storm

Team Bath’s netballers battled hard but went down to table-toppers Surrey Storm 51-61 at the University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight (17 March) in the Zeo Netball Superleague. Storm played a blinder in defence and were sharper at getting the ball through to their shooters. Team Bath's England mid-court player Serena Guthrie remained up-beat despite the defeat.  She said: "Obviously we are disappointed to go down by ten goals but Surrey are a good...

17 March 2014

Coach calls on Team Bath Netball to push for top-two after Superleague boost at Loughborough

Team Bath head coach Jess Thirlby is looking for her team to push on and challenge for a top-two finish at the halfway mark of the 2014 ZEO Superleague regular season. The reigning Superleague champions are currently third in the table with seven of their 14 regular season games played. They face two key games in the space of three days with the long trip to Team Northumbria on Saturday (15 March) followed by a...

11 March 2014

History is made as Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher skis to Britain’s first-ever Paralympic Winter Games gold medal

University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher made a piece of history today (Monday) by winning Britain’s first gold medal at a Paralympic Winter Games. Gallagher, who graduated from the University with a Mathematics degree in 2006, took gold in the visually impaired Alpine Skiing Super G event at the Sochi Games with guide Charlotte Evans. Their medals were also Britain’s first gold medals on the snow at either the Paralympic or Olympic Winter Games. Gallagher,...

10 March 2014