Team Bath midcourter Mia Ritchie is aiming to win a place on the England team at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. As well as playing for Team bath in the ZEO Netball Superleague, Mia is a University of Bath graduate. She studied Sports Performance here, completing her studies in 2013. Watch our Team Bath TV movie to find out how the inspirational player combines training with her work as a teacher, and how much she...
Two of the finest athletes the City of Bath has produced today (Monday) became the first inductees to the University of Bath’s new Hall of Fame for Sport. Jason Gardener and Ben Rushgrove were inducted to the Hall of Fame by Professor Kevin Edge, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath. The Hall of Fame is located in the entrance of the Sports Training Village, a world-leading sports facility that has been a training base...
Nine University of Bath based swimmers were today (Wednesday) selected to represent England at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The list includes three swimmers who medalled at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealths, two University of Bath students and five Commonwealth Games debutants. Joe Roebuck, Lizzie Simmonds and Chris Walker-Hebborn won medals at Delhi four years ago and train at British Swimming’s National Training Centre for Swimming at the University, where they are coached by Dave McNulty...
Mia Ritchie, Stacey Francis and Rosie Allison collected the awards at the Team Bath Netball Superleague end of season dinner last night (Thursday). Effervescent midcourter Ritchie collected a pair of awards. Her team-mates voted her the winner of the Players’ Player of the Year award and she also collected the Coaches’ Player of the Year title. "I was surprised and delighted to win both awards," said the Team Bath and England player. "To receive awards...
Team Bath judo player Emmanuel Nartey is aiming to make history when he competes at his second Commonwealth Games this summer. Nartey has been selected to represent Ghana at the Glasgow 2014 Games and is likely to be one of just a handful of judo players to contest both the Manchester Games in 2002 – when judo last appeared at Commonwealths - and return to action in Glasgow. The 30-year-old is ranked 29th in the...
The University of Bath rugby team have won the British Universities Rugby Sevens Championship for the first time. The team beat Northumbria 20-7 in the final of the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) final at Clifton Rugby Club in Bristol to secure the title. Earlier the team beat Leeds Met 20-0, UWE 38-0 and Loughborough 19-5 to book a semi-final against Cardiff Met, a game they won 14-12 to progress to the final. The...
University of Bath student Sam Courty has been selected to row in a senior British crew for the first time at the Windermere Cup in Seattle this weekend. The 21-year-old Sport and Exercise Science student is a member of a 10-strong squad for the women’s eight. The third year student joined the GB Rowing Team’s Start programme 18 months ago. “She has always had the right attitude,” said Dan Harris, Talent Development Coach – Bath...
An Olympian, a World Cup medallist and a British Universities champion are the latest Team Bath Athlete of the Month Awards winners. Bobsleigh athlete John Jackson won the men’s award for February after driving the British four-man bob to fifth place at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The GBR1 crew of Jackson, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon, finished just 0.11 seconds off the bronze medal over four runs. It was a particularly...
University of Bath student Kristian Callaghan has been named among the first English athletes to be selected to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 20-year-old Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering student is a member of England’s shooting team for the Games. His selection comes just days after International Security student Alexander Beaton was chosen to swim for Guernsey at his second Commonwealths. Callaghan, who is on the second year of his degree at...
Team Bath head coach Jess Thirlby wants her team to end their ZEO Superleague campaign on a high note with a stylish and classy performance to secure third place in Saturday’s play-off game. The team tackle Hertfordshire Mavericks in a battle for third after going down 43-37 to Manchester Thunder in Monday night’s semi-final. “We have to pick ourselves up and finish the season as strongly as we can,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to...
