Bath swimmers impress in Edinburgh

University of Bath-based swimmers were in impressive form in Edinburgh at the weekend with Joe Roebuck collecting a hat-trick of titles and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Stacey Tadd winning a brace of golds a-piece. London 2012 Olympian Roebuck, who transferred train at British Swimming’s Bath Intensive Training Centre earlier this year, won golds in the 100m butterfly (53.40), 200m butterfly (1:59.10) and 200m individual medley (2:02.42) at the East District Open SASA Grand Prix. Seventeen-year-old O’Connor,...

03 June 2013

Fell tackles charity bike challenge

As one of Britain’s top modern pentathletes and Olympic silver medallist at the 2008 Beijing games, Heather Fell is highly skilled across the disciplines of  fencing, swimming, show jumping and running and shooting. However, Fell - who trains locally at the Pentathlon GB High Performance  Centre at the University of Bath - is about to step out of her comfort zone by undertaking the Deloitte Ride Across Britain ultimate cycle challenge to raise money for...

03 June 2013

Kristian aiming to be on target in Kazan

Marksman Kristian Callaghan is the first University of Bath student to be selected to represent Team GBR at this summer's World University Games. Callaghan, who is studying for a degree in Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, has been selected in the 11-strong British shooting team for the Games, which take place in the Russian city of Kazan. Callaghan, who is a pistol shooter, won a gold and a bronze for Great Britain at the Australian...

31 May 2013

Amelia wins national under-10 tennis title

Talented young tennis player Amelia Bissett has won the Under-10 National Clay Court title. Amelia played some excellent tennis at the green ball competition, winning all of her matches on the clay courts at Queenswood in London. She beat two girls she had previously lost to at Easter tournaments, taking the final convincingly 4-1, 4-2. Amelia has shown excellent progression after winning the under-nine Masters on orange ball at Roehampton in March to now winning...

30 May 2013

Shadow Minister for Sport praises facilities

Shadow Minister for Sport Clive Efford MP praised the University of Bath’s sports facilities during a visit to the Claverton Down campus yesterday (Tuesday). Mr Efford, MP for Eltham, was visiting the University to consult on what is required in a 10-year plan for school and community sport. Before holding a discussion with around 40 delegates from the West Country at an event hosted by University’s new Institute for Policy Research, Mr Efford was given a...

29 May 2013

A Marathon not a sprint for Gabb

Team Bath MCTA tennis academy player Richie Gabb narrowly missed out on winning lifting his first $10,000 title last week, in Greece. Played in the town of Marathon, home of the Ancient Olympics, Gabb fought all the way through the draw, eventually losing the final in a tie-break decider to in-form Brit David Rice. On the way Gabb beat top Junior Filip Peliwo from Canada in the semi and overcame a tense quarter-final saving numerous...

28 May 2013

Team Bath Netball are the 2013 Superleague Champions

Team Bath battled to a fifth Netball Superleague win – their first since 2010 – tonight in Worcester with a 62-56 win over Celtic Dragons. The Team Bath squad started as marginal favourites despite losing to Celtic Dragons at home in the Showdown Phase of the league. This was a brutal and see-sawing final with neither side able to establish a significant lead until the final four minutes when Team Bath surged to the victory...

25 May 2013

Team Bath target fifth Superleague title in Saturday’s final

Team Bath’s netballers go in search of their fifth Superleague title when they tackle Celtic Dragons in Saturday’s (25 May) climax to the domestic netball season. The two teams go head to head in the grand final at the University of Worcester Arena on Saturday night with the biggest prize in domestic netball at stake. Team Bath have already won four of the seven Superleague campaigns contested to date, with victories in 2006, 2007, 2009...

23 May 2013

Katie lands pair of medals

University of Bath member of staff Katie Franks has scored the biggest success yet of her Tae Kwon Do career with a pair of medals at the Welsh Open Championships. The 25-year-old, who works as merchandise sales consultant in the Department of Sport, won individual sparring silver in the black belt heavyweight division and a team gold at the competition in Cardiff at the weekend. “It’s my best national result yet,” said the Calne Tae...

21 May 2013

Team Bath through to netball’s Superleague final

Team Bath’s hopes of a fifth netball superleague title in eight attempts are very much on track after they beat Manchester Thunder 53-43 at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village this evening. The home side’s third-quarter 19 goals for only nine replies proved crucial to the win against the defending champions. Team Bath were dominant initially but then slipped to a fragile 25-22 lead at half-time. “We had a good start but then they...

19 May 2013