Team Bath hockey’s winter of content

As the Indoor Hockey season comes to a close University of Bath’s Hockey Development Manager Nick Kendall reflects on a successful term for Team Bath Buccaneers’ men. Team Bath Buccaneers’ men secured their fourth promotion in 13 months when they reached the Indoor Premier League in January 2014, something that wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the university. Nick Kendall feels it has been a mutually productive relationship for the university and Team Bath...

26 January 2014

Skeleton athletes selected for Sochi

University of Bath student Dom Parsons was today named in a four-strong GB skeleton team to compete at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Parsons is studying for a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University and took up the sport of skeleton as an undergraduate at the University. You can find our full details of his pioneering research and his quest for Sochi success. “Sochi has been my goal for so long that I'm...

22 January 2014

University of Bath-based bobsleigh athletes selected for Sochi

Ten bobsleigh athletes who train at the University of Bath were today (Wednesday) named in the British team to compete at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. British Bobsleigh has its headquarters at the University of Bath and many of Britain’s top bobsleigh athletes do some of their training at the Sports Training Village. Team GB will have two four-man bobsleigh crews in action in Sochi, a two-man crew and one two-woman crew. Craig Pickering,...

22 January 2014

University of Bath to host 2015 Modern Pentathlon European Championships

Europe’s top modern pentathletes will begin the battle for Olympic selection in the UK when the University of Bath hosts the 2015 European Modern Pentathlon Championships – the first senior international modern pentathlon competition held in the UK since the London 2012 Olympic Games. The event, one of more than 26 World and European Championships targeted to be hosted in the UK as part of UK Sport’s £27 million Gold Event Series, will be held...

16 January 2014

Buccs achieve fourth straight promotion to reach top-flight

A remarkable four successive promotions in just 13 months have seen Team Bath Buccaneers men’s indoor team reach the Premier League of England Hockey’s Maxinutrition 5s competition for the first time in their history. Buccs finished runners-up in this weekend’s Division 1 competition at the University of the West of England. That was enough to see them promoted to the Premier Division, giving them the opportunity to take on the Premier League powerhouses East Grinstead,...

14 January 2014

University of Bath student hopes to engineer Sochi success

Student Dom Parsons has temporarily put the brakes on his work on an innovative mechanical engineering research project at the University of Bath to try to achieve his dream of competing at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games next month. Parsons is studying for a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University, where he is carrying out research on developing a new generation of more powerful, more efficient car engines. And it was as an...

13 January 2014

Eight Team Bath players feature in England squads for international series

Eight members of Team Bath’s Netball Superleague squad will represent England in forthcoming fixtures against world number two team New Zealand, as well as Jamaica and Wales. England have two teams playing in the series, which runs from 17 to 21 January with games at Wembley Arena and the Copper Box Arena in London. Four members of Team Bath’s 2014 Superleague squad – Rosie Allison, Pamela Cookey, Stacey Francis and Serena Guthrie - feature in...

09 January 2014

Successful preparation camp held at University

The British Paralympic Association (BPA) has this weekend hosted the first of a series of multi-sport preparation camps aimed to support developing athletes in their preparations for Rio and beyond. The camp, which took place at the University of Bath on January 3-5, brought together almost 100 aspiring Paralympians from 11 different sports and included Para-Canoe and Para-Triathlon, which are both new sports on the programme for Rio 2016. The camp is the first of...

06 January 2014

Double Olympian Weale announces retirement

University of Bath graduate Sam Weale has announced his retirement from the sport of modern pentathlon after a career spanning more than a decade that saw him compete at two Olympic Games. Weale took up the demanding sport of modern pentathlon in 2000 and represented Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, finishing 10th, the best performance by a GB man since Graham Brookhouse’s eighth in 1992. He followed that up with 13th place...

06 January 2014

Lloyd looks to the future

“It was like a Coldplay concert,” reported Lloyd Wallace University of Bath Sports Performance student Lloyd Wallace after competing at the World Cup Aerial Skiing in Beijing’s iconic Bird’s Nest stadium. “A crowd of 40,000, spotlights, massive TV screens and pumping music.  It is hard to express how awesome the event was.” Usually the aerial competitions are held in ski resorts, frequently high up in snowy mountains so it was a new experience for the...

27 December 2013