Reigning ZEO Superleague champions Team Bath suffered their first defeat of the 2014 season as they went down 54-41 to Manchester Thunder at the University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight (Friday). Team Bath went behind early in quarter one and despite battling back, they could never quite turn the tables on Thunder in the round two encounter, which was televised live on Sky Sports. Team Bath head coach Jess Thirlby said: “We made a...
University of Bath graduate Craig Pickering said he was ‘devastated’ to miss out on competing at the Sochi Olympic Winter Games after suffering a slipped disc. Pickering sustained the injury to his back on Sunday (2 February) training at GB Bobsleigh’s Olympic preparation camp in Konigssee, Germany. It means that at least for the time being, he misses the opportunity to become one of the few athletes to have represented Great Britain at both a...
University of Bath graduate Craig Pickering is set to join a select group of athletes who have competed at Summer and Winter Olympic Games after swapping the athletics track for the bobsleigh track. Pickering made his Olympic debut in the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games as a member of Britain’s 4x100m relay team. Six years on the University of Bath Sport and Exercise Science graduate is poised to return...
Wine expert Peter Richards swapped wine tips for the unfamiliar world of the skeleton and bobsleigh push-start track at the University of Bath to help give this weekend’s Saturday Kitchen an Olympic Winter Games theme. Peter, Master of Wine on the BBC One hit show Saturday Kitchen, had several runs on the skeleton sled under the guidance of Team Bath track controller Nathan Bryer. And you can see the results on this Saturday’s (8 February)...
Team Bath head coach Jess Thirlby predicts Manchester Thunder will come out fighting when the two teams meet in round two of the ZEO Superleague at the University of Bath on Friday (7 February). Team Bath started their campaign with a 59-45 win over Team Northumbria last week, while Thunder went down 55-48 at home to Surrey Storm. Friday’s contest, which is being shown live on Sky Sports, brings together two of the three teams...
Team Bath’s netballers got their defence of their ZEO Superleague title off to a winning start with a 59-45 victory over Team Northumbria at the University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight (31 January). Team Bath’s line-up included England players Serena Guthrie, Pamela Cookey, Mia Rtichie and Stacey Francis. Aussie Georgia Beaton, from the ANZ, made her debut for the visitors at goal-defence, in a team with a strong Northern Ireland flavour. Northumrbria opened at...
Team Bath’s netballers aim to get their defence of their ZEO Netball Superleague title off to a winning start with victory over Team Northumbria at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Friday (31 January). Team Bath are the most successful team in ZEO Netball Superleague history with five wins from the eight campaigns contested to date. They kick-off their 2014 campaign with back-to-back home fixtures against Team Northumbria on Friday and then Manchester Thunder, the...
BBC sports reporter Jonathan Legard and the broadcasting corporation's cameras were given access to Team Bath tennis coaches and players recently when they came to the Sports Training Village to film. Recording a segment for the Business of Tennis reports shown on BBC News, Jonathan spent time talking to Team Bath-MCTA athlete and 2012 UK under-18 champion, Scott Clayton, to find out just how tough it is to make ends meet as a young tennis player....
University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher has been named in the British team to compete at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. The visually-impaired Alpine skier will be competing at her second Paralympic Games after finishing fourth in the giant slalom in Vancouver four years ago, the best finish by a British visually-impaired skier since 1994. Gallagher, from Bangor in Northern Ireland, graduated from the University with a Mathematics degree in 2006. She said she...
Former England netball captain Olivia Murphy, one of the most respected figures in English netball, has joined Team Bath as an assistant coach for the 2014 Superleague season. Murphy won 95 senior England caps in an illustrious playing career that included six years as England captain, from 2000 to her international retirement in 2006. The influential midcourter helped England to bronze at the 1998 and 2006 Commonwealths Games and at the 1999 World Championships. She...
