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...
Judo player Ben Fletcher and British skeleton athlete Laura Deas are are our latest winners for January’s Team Bath athlete of the month awards. The awards, which are supported by REVO Eyewear and Ellis & Killpartrick, once again showcased the outstanding caliber of sporting talent at the University of Bath. Ben collected the men’s award after winning his first World Cup gold medal in Tunisia on return from injury, beating Russia’s Khaybula Magomedov in the -100kg final. Ben also won the British Championships back in December. Laura has had a big breakthrough this...
Jessica Hopton, part of the England U19 badminton squad, led a successful group of Team Bath badminton players at the weekend’s English National U19 Championships in Milton Keynes. Hopton, hoping for selection to the World Junior Championships team this year, won the women’s doubles with Lydia Powell in three incredibly tight sets – 21-15, 20-22, 22-20. She also reached the singles semi-finals, losing to reigning champion, top seed and eventual winner Banerjee at that stage...
Lawrence Clarke continued his impressive run of form in the 60m hurdles winning the Sainsbury’s Indoor British Championships in 7.69, having set a new personal best of 7.59 last week in France. Clarke came home ahead of David Omergie of Cardiff and will now set his sights on the European Indoors in Prague early next month if selected. The 24-year-old University of Bath student, coached by Malcolm Arnold, said “I’m pleased to win here and...
Team Bath seek the blueprint to be sum of the parts Team Bath’s netball squad would seem to have all the bits to make a model side but have not yet found the glue to fix them together. Tonight they went down to their third successive Superleague defeat in four starts in 2015 by 34-51 to Hertfordshire Mavericks. But coach Jess Thirlby still took time out to see the positives. She said: “We need to...
Team Bath's Superleague side went down to one of its heavier home defeats in recent years at the hands of Surrey Storm 42-56 at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village tonight. Coach Jess Thirlby made continual and multiple changes as she strove to settle her new squad against a well-oiled opposition attack which included Rachel Dunn, Pamela Cookey and Tamsin Greenway, all formerly of Team Bath, who piled on the pressure in the first...
Kiwi-born Team Bath-MCTA player Marcus Daniell won his second career ATP Doubles Event in Montpellier, France, last week. The win put him into the world top 100 from his 2014 year-end ranking of 114. Daniell and his partner Artem Sitak had to work hard for their title. They came through three tough sets to reach the semi-finals with a 7-6, 6-7, 11-9 quarter-final thriller against 2012 Wimbledon winner Jonathan Marray and Colin Fleming before needing...
Team Bath badminton coach Peter Bush was brimful of pride this week after Heather Olver, a University graduate and alumni of his coaching group here at the Sports Training Village, won a senior national badminton title. Olver, with Lauren Smith, won the English National women’s doubles title in Crawley earlier this month. Olver , who also won two silvers at last year’s Commonwealth Games, had been defeated in five previous finals. The duo won by...
After the previous weekend’s win against Northumbria, Team Bath struggled to find their feet against an in-form Manchester Thunder on Saturday in netball’s Superleague. The opening quarter was fiercely contested with Team Bath going down by just one goal 10-11 to the reigning champions. “We started well and stuck to the game plan, making them work hard in on their attack whilst we were patient and clinical”,, said Head Coach Thirlby. A very poor second...
Team Bath MCTA tennis player Anna Smith made her Federation Cup debut an event to remember today. The 26 year old doubles specialist pulled GB through an incredible rally to save match point with Jocelyn Rae and pave the way for a three-set doubles win which saw GB through to the next round against Belarus tomorrow. Smith chased a lob and then picked up a difficult volley to keep British hopes alive and save the...
