Team Bath Netball finished their Superleague season on a high note as they beat Celtic Dragons 50-34 at the Sports Training Village on Monday. The hosts trailed by one point after a below-par first period but were the better team after that and went on to win the remaining three quarters as they secured fifth place in the table. It is the first time in Superleague history that Team Bath have not qualified for the...
Team Bath MCTA-Tennis ace Eden Richardson claimed her second tournament success in as many weeks when she won the Messika Open ladies singles title in Israel. The 16-year-old – fresh from her triumph at the Malta ITF U18 World Ranking Tournament – was in dominant form throughout the hard-court competition in Bat Yam. That was summed up when she dropped just five games in the latter stages of the tournament, beating Anna Kubareva of Belarus...
Performance Director Jan Bartu said he was in “philosophical” mood after two incident-packed finals for Pentathlon GB’s athletes at World Cup 3 in Rome. He was pleased to see University of Bath student Tom Toolis finish 17th in his first senior men’s final on Saturday, which made him the top-placed Brit ahead of Nick Woodbridge in 20th, Joe Evans in 26th and Joe Choong in 27th. But Bartu, pictured, added that a possible problem with...
The University of Bath’s elite swimmers are just days away from being able to train at the Sports Training Village’s new London 2012 Legacy Pool. But before then, they will be competing at the actual London 2012 Olympic pool, with the British Swimming Championships taking place at the London Aquatics Centre from April 14-18. As well as national titles, qualification for this summer’s FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia is also up for grabs. The...
Team Bath MCTA Tennis ace Eden Richardson dropped just one set as she won the ladies’ singles title at the Malta ITF U18 World Ranking Tournament. The 16-year-old justified her status as number one seed by breezing to a 6-1 6-3 victory over number two seed Veronika Erjavec of Slovenia in the final. Richardson started her campaign by beating Ireland’s Annie McCullough without losing a game. She then overcame Romania’s Sofia Besukladova 6-3 6-2, Italy’s...
All four Pentathlon GB men have made it through to Saturday’s final at World Cup 3 in Rome after impressive performances in Thursday’s qualification round. University of Bath students Joe Evans and Tom Toolis finished second and third respectively in Group A, while Joe Choong also placed in the top three in Group B. Double Olympian Nick Woodbridge, making his first World Cup appearance for two years after a hip injury, narrowly missed out on...
Pentathlon GB duo Freyja Prentice and Kate French are safely through to the women’s individual final at World Cup 3 in Rome, Italy. Prentice – who won a bronze medal at the last World Cup in Cairo, Egypt in March – topped Group B in the qualifying stages on Wednesday with 1,080 points, ranking her ninth overall. And French – a third-placed finisher at World Cup 1 in Sarasota, US in February – scored 1,076...
Team Bath Netball defenders Sam Cook and Stacey Francis have been named in a 12-strong England Netball squad for the upcoming three-match Test series against Trinidad & Tobago. They are joined in the squad by former Team Bath players Sara Bayman, Pamela Cookey, Kadeen and Sasha Corbin, and Rachel Dunn. The opening match of the series, part of the build-up to this summer’s Netball World Cup in Australia, will take place at the University of...
Team Bath Netball head coach Jess Thirlby is determined to finish the Superleague season on a high when Celtic Dragons visit the Sports Training Village for a televised fixture next week. A run of three away defeats in seven days, culminating in Easter Monday’s 51-45 reverse at improving Loughborough Lightning, mean Team Bath will not qualify for the semi-finals for the first time since the Superleague began in 2006. But victory over Welsh franchise Dragons...
Team Bath Netball’s hopes of reaching the Superleague semi-finals are over following a battling 55-44 defeat to Yorkshire Jets on Thursday. Jess Thirlby’s team went to Leeds knowing they must win to keep alive their chances of catching fourth-placed Jets. And the visitors got off to a flying start, racing into a 4-0 lead before Jets hit back to take a 14-11 advantage into the second quarter. Team Bath found themselves 31-22 down at half-time...
