Murray and Whybourn poised for Wimbledon main draw debuts

Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy players Samantha Murray and Lisa Whybourn are set to make their debuts in the Wimbledon main draw after being handed wildcards for The Championships today (Wednesday). They are joined by another Team Bath MCTA player, Mel South, who returns to play at Wimbledon in the women’s doubles main draw. Murray has been given a wildcard to play in both the singles and the women’s doubles at this year’s Wimbledon. She...

12 June 2013

More Bath athletes set for World University Games

Rugby players, footballers and judo players feature in the latest batch of University of Bath-based athletes selected to represent Great Britain at this summer’s World University Games in Russia. University of Bath students Amy Wilson-Hardy and graduates Katie Mason and Deb Fleming are named in the GB women’s rugby sevens team for the Games, which take place in the city of Kazan. Mason, a Sport and Exercise Science graduate, is one of four members of...

12 June 2013

Gosiewski wins silver in Estonia

University of Bath student and judo player Jan Gosiewski has achieved the biggest win of his career to date by taking silver at the European Open in Estonia. Gosiewski, who is studying for an MSc in Design Engineering at the University after already graduating with a Mechanical Engineering degree, took silver in the under-73kg class in Tallinn on Saturday. After winning his opening four contests, Gosiewski went down to Israel’s Sagi Muki in the final....

11 June 2013

Heathcote set for first Scotland start

University of Bath student Tom Heathcote makes his first start for the senior Scotland team in Saturday’s rugby international against Samoa. The 21-year-old Bath Rugby player is studying for a degree in Politics with Economics at the University. He has come off the bench against Tonga last autumn but Saturday’s test against Samoa in Durban is the fly-half’s first senior international start. Meanwhile Politics with Economics student Max Maidment, has signed a contract with Championship...

05 June 2013

Quartet selected for World Youth Champs

Four Team Bath netballers were today named in the 12-strong England squad to contest this summer’s World Youth Netball Championships. Shooters Rosie Allison and Shaunagh Craig join defender Samantha Cook and midcourt player Yasmin Parsons in the squad. The quartet were all members of the Team Bath squad that won the 2013 Superleague title last month – Team Bath’s fifth Superleague title from eight campaigns. Three of them combine training with studying at the University...

04 June 2013

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