Adam Conroy crowned English Open Champion as Team Bath Judo Club show Sheffield steel

Team Bath Judo Club’s Adam Conroy continued his return to full fitness by being crowned as English Open Champion on Sunday. The 22-year-old, coached by Juergen Klinger, beat Peter Miles of Bradley Stoke – who had won the junior title the previous day – in the senior men’s U60kg final at iceSheffield. It was only Great Britain international Conroy’s second competition in six months after a back injury brought his 2014 campaign to a premature...

09 March 2015

University of Bath students serve up women’s doubles success at BUCS Individual Tennis Championships

  University of Bath students Alex Walker and Natasha Starling teamed up to win the women’s doubles at the BUCS Individual Tennis Championships at Loughborough. Walker (Msc Management) and Natasha Starling (BSc Business Administration) lived up to their billing as top seeds by not dropping a set in their four matches over the weekend. And they saved their best performance for the final, where they defeated the home pair of Olivia Nicholls and Louise Holtum...

09 March 2015

Management graduate Clarke is fifth in European final

GB and Northern Ireland Captain Lawrence Clarke, coached at the University of Bath Sports Training Village by Malcolm Arnold, was fifth in last night’s 60m hurdles final at the European Indoor Championships in Prague. After a 2013 and 2014 that were plagued with injury, the Management graduate Clarke, 25, was pleased with the improvement. He said:  “I am actually quite pleased as I made a complete hash of the first two rounds and I have...

07 March 2015

Parsons seventh at Worlds

University of Bath postgraduate student Dominic Parsons produced an impressive performance on the final day of the men’s skeleton World Championships in Winterberg, Germany, to finish in seventh place overall, following up his tenth-place finish at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi last year. Parsons was in fine form today as he improved on his start and run times from yesterday’s racing, posting times of 56.23 & 56.25 today to steal a march on Korea’s...

06 March 2015

Team Bath win keeps play-off hopes alive

Team Bath played a performance of true grit and determination at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village to keep their hopes of a Superleague play-off place alive. In a pulsating fixture they defeated Loughborough Lightning by 45-43.  The home side was five goals adrift early in the match and in the final quarter had the crowd off their seats as they held their nerve to close out the win. Coach Jess Thirlby, who stuck...

06 March 2015

Win in Wales could prove just the tonic ahead of Loughborough clash

Team Bath, backed by Carter Jonas, will draw confidence from their close encounter - resulting in a win - against Celtic Dragons in North Wales at the weekend as they prepare for their next match against Loughborough Lightning this Friday (March 6th) at the Sports Training Village. Playing at Deeside Leisure Centre, Team Bath recovered from an early 5-9 deficit to get ahead in the second quarter and emerge ultimate 42-36 winners via a 21-16...

03 March 2015

Can University of Bath postgrad Parsons win first “major” medal at Worlds?

Bobsleigh and skeleton have their World Championships, starting today in Winterberg, Germany, in an event which will see University of Bath postgraduate student and Sochi Olympian Dominic Parsons go in search of a first "major" Championships medal in the men's skeleton. Bobsleigh named a 14-person squad last week which includes the World no.1 junior female pilot Mica McNeill and twice summer Olympian Simeon Williamson. Williamson, one of seven push athletes selected, has emerged from the sport's...

26 February 2015

Historic double gold and a bronze for Modern Pentathletes

University of Bath-based Modern Pentathlon Performance Director Jan Bartu could not keep the smile out of his normally-controlled voice. “We are over the moon.  These are fantastic results”, he said as his squad began the journey back from Sarasota, USA, where they had just made history by winning the individual men’s and women’s golds at senior World Cup level for the first time as well as bronze in the women’s event. “These results far exceeded...

26 February 2015

Trio of Uni-based athletes selected for European Indoors

Lawrence Clarke, Kirsten McAslan and Laura Maddox have been named today in a 39–strong team to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague, Czech Republic, from 5-8 March. Clarke, a graduate student at the University of Bath, has been in great form this indoor season, setting a new personal best in the 60m hurdles and winning the British Indoor Championships in Sheffield earlier this month. He is...

26 February 2015

Team Bath lose out to Yorkshire Jets in close match

Team Bath battled hard but lost in a closely fought match to Yorkshire Jets, going down 51-54 in their third successive Superleague home defeat. It was always going to be an uphill struggle for the home side after going down by ten goals in the opening six minutes of the match but they showed great character as they fought back to go ahead briefly in the third quarter even if they could not bring the...

21 February 2015