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

University of Bath-based Eilidh Child leads GB women’s relay quartet to bronze at 2014 World Indoor Athletics Champs

University of Bath-based athlete Eilidh Child landed another medal on the world stage when she led the Great Britain 4x400m quartet to bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Poland. Child, who was Great Britain team captain for the championships, led off the GB relay quartet that came home third behind the USA and Jamaica in Sopot. Child, who is coached by Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics’ Lead Hurdles Coach,  ran the first leg, passing the...

10 March 2014

Honours even as 2013 finalists Team Bath Netball and Celtic Dragons meet again in 2014 Superleague showdown

Team Bath Netball and Celtic Dragons fought out a 62-62 tie in tonight’s eagerly anticipated televised re-run of last season’s ZEO Superleague final. Both teams managed to eke out three-goal leads in the game at the University of Bath Sports Training Village, but neither side could turn that advantage into a decisive margin and then push on to take all three points. And unlike in Team Bath’s other draw this season, a 48-all tie at...

28 February 2014

Team Bath Netball head into Dragons rematch on back of three-match winning away run after victory over Yorkshire Jets

Team Bath take on Celtic Dragons in a mouth-watering re-run of last season’s ZEO Superleague final at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Friday (28 February). The contest, which is being televised live on Sky Sports, is the first time the two sides have met since that final – a game that Team Bath won 62-56 to capture a historic fifth Superleague crown. Team Bath lost their last home game to Manchester Thunder...

26 February 2014

British Bobsleigh four-man crew end Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games campaign in fifth

The GBR1 four-man bobsleigh crew of John Jackson, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon just missed out on the medals in the final event of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The quartet, the last British athletes to compete at the Games, ended their campaign in fifth, just half a second off the Russian Federation 1 crew that took gold and 0.11 seconds off the bronze medal position. It means they secured the best...

23 February 2014