Yasmin Parsons made her FIAT Superleague debut as Bath bounced back from Thursday’s home defeat to Surrey Storm with a 59-27 away win over Glasgow Wildcats over the weekend. The win secured the defending champions a home tie in this month’s play-offs when they will once again face Surrey Storm. Parsons came on at wing-attack in the third quarter. Interestingly, Kadeen Corbin, who also made her Team Bath Superleague debut just a few weeks ago,...
Team Bath will have to wait until Saturday (14 May) night to confirm a home tie in the Fiat Netball Superleague play-offs after going down 60-47 to Surrey Storm at the University of Bath tonight (Thursday). Tonight’s result means the two teams will meet again in the first round of the play-offs and they go into the final round of regular season games level on points. Team Bath have a superior goal average and victory...
A bronze statue of former Welsh international footballer and University of Bath football coach Ivor Powell MBE was unveiled at the University today (Tuesday). The 94-year-old retired a year ago after 37 years working as a football coach at the University. It followed a remarkable career that saw him play for Wales, Blackpool, Aston Villa and Queen’s Park Rangers. The 18-inch tall statue is cast in bronze and was paid for by the University of...
Title > President of TeamBath FC and Assistant Coach Date and Place of Birth > 1916, South Wales Athletes Coached > TeamBath Football Club Biography > Ivor was the seventh son of a seventh son, he started his working life down the mines and was spotted by Queen’s Park Rangers playing for South Wales League side Bargoed aged 17. Worked as an RAF physical trainer during the Second World War when he struck up a...
Team Bath’s netballers have secured a place in the end of season play-offs of the Fiat Netball Superleague. Saturday’s 52-49 victory over Leeds Carnegie, combined with a defeat for Loughborough Lightning, who are fifth in the table, ensured Team Bath will finish at least fourth in the Superleague. Team Bath are currently third in the table and if they can finish third they will book a home tie in the first round of the end...
Team Bath’s netballers edged ever closer to a place in the FIAT netball Superleague play-offs with a 52-49 win over Leeds Carnegie at home today but they were made to fight all the way to the wire for it. Trailing 44-45 with six and a half minutes to the final whistle, Team Bath needed a goal-surge in the final three minutes to get the win in front of the Bank Holiday weekend home crowd at...
Team Bath’s netballers picked up maximum points from their Fiat Superleague double-header this weekend with wins against Celtic Dragons and Team Northumbria to maintain a top four slot with four matches to go before the play-offs. Back-to-back wins were important for coach Jess Garland after the previous double-header weekend saw Team Bath win convincingly on the Friday but losing on the Sunday. Pre-weekend the former England international had told her players to concentrate on the...
One of the biggest multi-sports events in the UK takes place at the University of Bath this weekend when Bath hosts the British Colleges Sport National Championships for the first time. Around 2200 teenagers and staff from the further education sector around the country will attend the event, which features three days of high-level action across 14 sports. The students will battle it out in badminton, basketball, cross-country, golf, hockey, netball, rugby, five-a-side soccer, squash,...
Team Bath’s netballers won one and lost one in their double-header weekend in the Fiat Netball Superleague to remain fourth in the table. The reigning Superleague champions ran out 57-48 winners at Surrey Storm on Saturday, making the most of their possession to outscore Storm in each of the four quarters. Team Bath head coach Jess Garland was pleased overall. “The team focused on what they needed to and in the process delivered a better...
Defending champions Team Bath went down to top-of-the-table Hertfordshire Mavericks 52-42 in tonight’s (Friday) Fiat Netball Superleague clash at the University of Bath. The contest, played out in front of another bumper crowd of around 940 fans, was a rematch of last season’s final - but the losing side then came out on top tonight, following their one-goal victory in February with a more decisive margin this time around. Team Bath found themselves playing catch-up...
