Four of the University Championship crews finished in the top six at the BUCS Head, held over a five kilometer course, in Boston, Lincolnshire. The Start athletes who were at GB Rowing Trials the previous weekend, were back in action claiming third in the Mens Championship 4-, the crew of Jack Cadman, Frazier Christie, Alex Wilding , Ben Jackson took bronze in a highly contested event. They then went on to team up with Start...
University of Bath based athletes Eilidh Child and Andrew Pozzi have both been named in the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for next month’s European Indoor Championships. Child will run the 400m and is a member of the 4x400m relay quartet, while Pozzi contests the 60m hurdles. The pair are both coached by Malcolm Arnold, British Athletics’ Lead Hurdles Coach. Child won her first UK indoor crown at the trials in Sheffield earlier this...
Team Bath’s netballers made it two wins from two with a thrilling one-goal victory over defending Superleague champions Manchester Thunder. Team Bath edged Saturday night’s contest in Manchester 55-54, with Kadeen Corbin netting the decisive goal in the dying moments of the game after a strong team performance. Jess Thirlby, Team Bath’s head coach, said: “It was great to beat Thunder on their own turf. We had to work hard for it though, and we’re...
Four University of Bath students are set to make their modern pentathlon World Cup debuts in the USA later this week. The quartet of Sports Performance students Jo Muir and Joe Evans, Politics with International Relations student Sam Curry and Sport and Exercise Science student Tom Toolis, will compete in the opening World Cup of the year in Palm Springs. They are joined in the GB team in California by Jamie Cooke, Katy Burke, Heather...
The latest Team Bath athletes of the month award winners have been presented with their awards. Bath Intensive Training Centre swimmers Michael Jamieson and Anne Bochmann received the joint awards for November and December, with pistol shooter Kristian Callaghan collecting the men’s January award. Netballer Pamela Cookey was winner of the women’s award for January but could not attend the ceremony. The Team Bath athlete of the month awards are sponsored by Oakley and Ellis...
The University of Bath pairing of Frazier Christie and Jack Cadman produced a strong performance to finish as the third fastest under-23 pair at the GB Rowing Team Second Winter Assessment trials in Lincolnshire. Christie (left) and Cadman, both Economics students at the University, clocked a time of 17.24.02 for the 5km course at Boston at the weekend. The other University of Bath pairing of Ben Jackson, a Sport and Exercise Science student, and Mechanical...
British Swimming is set to reaffirm its commitment to its Intensive Training Centre at the University of Bath. The University of Bath ITC will continue for another four years, British Swimming has announced. It is one of four ITCs British Swimming will continue to operate following a value for money analysis linked to performance outcomes since the five existing centres opened in 2008. The Bath ITC, which is run by head coach David McNulty and...
Team Bath MCTA Academy players Seb Butler and Dan Little are celebrating victory in the boys' doubles at the Nairobi International Junior Championships in Kenya. The Bath pair kept their nerve to beat Brit Jay Clarke and partner Mwendwa Mbithi from the USA 76(2) 76(5) in the final of the ITF (World Junior Tour) Event. The win was particularly pleasing considering this was the first time the boys had paired together, and also the first...
Team Bath’s netballers made a winning start to their 2013 Superleague campaign with a 57-50 victory over Celtic Dragons at the University of Bath tonight (Thursday). The four-times Superleague champions made a strong start, taking the opening quarter 16-8. But they had to rely on an equally impressive final quarter to eventually put away Dragons and secure the spoils. Jess Thirlby, Team Bath’s head coach, said: “I was particularly pleased with the spirit we showed...
Asha Francis will captain Team Bath for the new Netball Superleague season, with Serena Guthrie as her vice-captain. Team Bath begin their 2013 campaign at home to Celtic Dragons on Thursday (7 February) in a game being televised live on Sky Sports. Asha (right), a Singapore international, retains the captaincy from the 2012 Superleague season. She lifted the FastNet Grand Prix trophy, which Team Bath won for the first time last month, and said: “It’s...
