An array of exciting and talented players feature in Team Bath’s 20-strong long squad for the 2015 Netball Superleague season. The final squad of 15 is expected to be announced later this year ready for the new Superleague season, which gets underway at the end of January. Team Bath are the most successful team in the history of the Superleague, having won five of the nine campaigns contested to date. The long squad for 2015...
University of Bath student Gemma Howell continued her comeback from injury by taking gold at the 2014 Glasgow European Judo Open at the weekend. Gemma represented Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympic Games but suffered a serious injury to her left knee that has effectively kept her out of the sport for two years. But she made up for lost time with a bronze medal at the Zagreb Grand Prix in Croatia last month...
Top tennis returns to the University of Bath next month with the annual Aegon GB Pro-Series tournament moving from spring to autumn for the first time. The event is run by the LTA and held on the indoor courts at the Sports Training Village. Free for spectators Now in its ninth year, the week-long tournament is free for spectators to watch and is aimed at players in the early stages of their professional careers. There’s...
University of Bath based badminton player Jess Hopton is celebrating a double triumph at the Swiss Junior Open in Basel. Hopton won the under-19 women’s singles title and joined forces with Lydia Powell to win the doubles. Seeded 5/8 for the singles, Hopton beat Ira Banerjee, England’s under-19 national champion, in the quarter-finals, before defeating France’s Joanna Chaube in the final. Hopton and Powell, seeded 3/4 for the doubles, beat top seeds Banerjee and Jessica...
University of Bath-based swimmers Siobhan-Marie O'Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn have been selected for the British team to compete at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Doha later this year. The pair, who both train with British Swimming's Bath National Training Centre (NTC), are members of a 12-strong British team for the championships. The action gets underway on 3 December and lasts for five days. The Bath pair have both had stunning years, with Walker-Hebborn...
University of Bath-based modern pentathlon world champion Samantha Murray has been named on the shortlist of the September Sky Sports Sportswoman of the Month award. The University of Bath French and Politics graduate, who trains at Pentathlon GB's National Training Centre at the University, was nominated for the award after becoming only the fourth British woman to win the individual modern pentathlon world championship crown. She features on a shortlist of six athletes along with...
Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy players Scott Clayton and Richard Gabb are celebrating winning back-to-back doubles tournaments in Turkey. The unseeded pair beat number four seeds Ramkumar Ramanathan of India and Venezuela’s Ricardo Rodriguez in Saturday’s final at the Turkey F33 Futures Tennis Organisation Cup in Antalya 7-5 7-6 (7). Fellow Team Bath player Jessica Simpson finished runner-up in the women’s doubles partnering Harriet Dart, going down 6-1 3-6 [10-8] to China’s Yan Wang and...
Team Bath judo player Megan Fletcher is looking forward to returning to action in Glasgow at the weekend after winning Commonwealth Games gold in the Scottish city two months ago. Fletcher, who won gold for England in the women's under-70kg class at the Glasgow Games, competes at the European Judo Open at the Emirates Arena on Saturday (4 October 2014). A fantatsic opportunity “It's amazing how positively judo was received by the home crowd both...
Team Bath's new-look Superleague squad are part-way through their 2015 season. The going has been tough so far with a run of home defeats after an opening win against Team Northumbria. Coach Thirlby has the squad training hard as they seek to convert their fizzing individual talent into consistent and cohesive match-winning performances. The Carter Jonas backed squad includes England defenders Sam Cook and Stacey Francis as well as Scottish captain Claire Brownie. Rachel Shaw,...
Team Bath Buccaneers aim to get their Now: Pensions National League West Conference campaign underway with a victory when they travel to Cheltenham on Saturday (13 September). Coach Jody Paul’s team completed their pre-season run with games that includes an 8-1 win against Robinsons and a draw with East Conference side Richmond. Buccs finished runners-up last season, missing out on promotion to Cardiff & Met. This season they will be aiming to finish one position...
