Team Bath record emphatic 69-33 victory over Leeds

A devastating 13-goal salvo without reply at the start of the third quarter laid the foundations for Team Bath to record an emphatic 69-33 victory over Leeds Carnegie in the Fiat Netball Superleague tonight (Monday). In seven stunning minutes the four-times Superleague champions turned a 29-25 advantage at half-time into a match-winning 42-25 lead. Leeds had no reply for Team Bath’s accuracy and workrate and it wasn’t until the halfway mark of quarter three that...

21 February 2011

Team Bath aim to bounce back after wafer-thin Mavericks defeat

Team Bath’s netballers aim to get back to winning ways when they host Leeds Carnegie on Monday (21 February) following a wafer-thin defeat at Hertfordshire Mavericks at the weekend. The reigning champions suffered a single goal reverse at the hand of Mavericks – the team they beat in last season’s final – going down 42-41 in Saturday’s Fiat Superleague fixture. It was Team Bath’s first Superleague defeat of the season and came despite a late...

16 February 2011

Team Bath’s victory over Loughborough makes it three from three

A flying start sent Team Bath on the way to a home 52-38 Fiat Superleague victory against Loughborough Lightning tonight, making it three wins from three matches so far for the reigning champions. The University-based side raced to a 9-1 lead within six minutes of the start. Some blisteringly accurate shooting from Kirsty Delves did much of the early damage. Fed superbly by the Team Bath centre-court and mobile goal-attack Pamela Cookey, Delves scored the...

07 February 2011

Team Bath make it two wins from two with 50-40 victory over Dragons

A powerful and determined last quarter display saw Fiat Netball Superleague champions Team Bath secure a 10-goal victory over Celtic Dragons at the University of Bath tonight (Thursday). Team Bath turned a 35-33 deficit going into the last quarter into a 50-40 win to make it two wins from two games at the start of the season. But the game was not plain sailing for the champions, with Dragons’ 6 foot 6 inch goal shooter...

03 February 2011

Team Bath prepare to build on opening Superleague win

Team Bath’s netballers aim to build on their opening Fiat Superleague victory with back-to-back home games at the Sports Training Village. The reigning Superleague champions ran out comfortable 59-26 winners at Team Northumbria on Saturday (29 January). They aim to follow up that victory in home games at the University of Bath against Celtic Dragons on Thursday (3 February) and Loughborough Lightning on Monday (7 February). Team Bath, the four-times Superleague champions, tried out some...

01 February 2011

Paul Blake rounds off impressive IPC World Championships campaign with 400m gold

University of Bath-based athlete Paul Blake rounded off his campaign at the International Paralympic Committee World Athletics Championships by striking gold in the T36 400m. Blake added gold on Saturday to the silvers he had already won in the 800m and 1500m on his overseas debut. It took the medal tally achieved by the University of Bath-based trio of Blake, Katrina Hart and Ben Rushgrove to eight of the 38 medals won by the Aviva...

31 January 2011

Sprinter Ben Rushgrove collects second medal of World Championships

University of Bath graduate Ben Rushgrove collected his second medal of the 2011 International Paralympic Committee World Athletics Championships today (Thursday) by taking bronze in the T36 200m. Rushgrove, who trains at the University with coach Rob Ellchuk, finished third in 200m final in Christchurch, New Zealand in 25.27 seconds. It means the three University of Bath-based athletes coached by Ellchuk have now medalled in each of the six events in which they have competed,...

27 January 2011

Sprinter Katrina Hart races to World Championships crown in New Zealand

University of Bath student Katrina Hart is celebrating after adding a World Championships crown to the Commonwealth Games title she won last year. The 20-year-old Sports Performance student struck gold in the T37 200m at the International Paralympic Committee World Championships in Christchurch yesterday (Sunday). Today she added a bronze in the T35-38 4×100m relay. And there have also been a brace of silvers medals for University of Bath-based athletes too, with Ben Rushgrove collecting...

24 January 2011

British Skeleton duo Shelley Rudman and Amy Williams win gold and bronze respectively at 2011 European Championships

University of Bath sporting alumnus, Shelley Rudman, pipped her team-mate and great rival Amy Williams, the Olympic champion, to European gold in Winterberg today during the sixth Skeleton World Cup there which doubles as the European Championships. The world cup win was Rudman’s first of the season after four previous runners-up slots and put her in pole position on the international rankings. The now Sheffield-based but former Wiltshire athlete, who was talent spotted into the...

22 January 2011

Kelly Gallagher becomes first British athlete to win World Championships medal in a Paralympic Alpine event

University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher has made a piece of history by becoming the first British athlete to win a World Championships medal in a Paralympic Alpine event. The Mathematics graduate and her guide, Charlotte Evans, took silver in the women’s visual-impaired slalom at Sestriere in Italy. "Charlotte helped me with getting down the slope really well, giving me really good instructions, so it was a good race," Gallagher said. Gold went to Henrieta...

21 January 2011