Double singles success for Team Bath MCTA Academy players

There was a double success for Team Bath MCTA Academy tennis players at the weekend with Callum Poland-Smith collecting a singles title in Malaysia and Adam Glynn winning in Kuwait. Seventeen-year-old Poland-Smith took an all-Bath boys’ singles final to the win the Sarawak Chief Minister’s Cup in Malaysia. The 17-year-old number three seed beat six seed Samm Butler 6-3 6-4 in the final. Poland-Smith and Japanese partner Naoki Nakagawa also reached the final of the...

07 November 2012

Ivor Powell MBE – an outstanding individual and a tremendous inspiration

Ivor Powell MBE, a former Welsh international footballer and long-serving coach at the University of Bath, passed away last night at the age of 96 after a short illness. After a playing, managerial and coaching career that took him to Aston Villa, Blackpool, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United, Carlisle and PAOK of Greece, Ivor coached at the University for 37 years before retiring in 2010. He inspired generations of young sportspeople and will be sadly...

06 November 2012

Jamieson collects hat-trick of BUCS titles

Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson collected a hat-trick of titles to help the University of Bath team to second place at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Short Course Swimming Championships. Despite still being in heavy training at the start of the season, Jamieson set a BUCS record of 2:06.65 to comfortably win the 200m breaststroke final. The University of Bath Sports Performance student followed that up with gold in the 50m breaststroke final...

05 November 2012

International Progress for the University of Bath Futsal Club

The University of Bath Futsal Club has been functioning for almost five years providing opportunities for men and women studying at the University to play Futsal at an elite or recreational level. The club ran by students under the Football Club section also provides community Youth Futsal sessions as well as support the local Adult Somerset FA Futsal Fives league at Ralph Allen School every week. The hard work that has gone into developing the...

05 November 2012

Panuga to contest World University Champs

University of Bath student Panuga Riou is a member of Britain’s eight-strong team competing at the World University Badminton Championships, which get underway in Korea next week. Riou combines training with studying for a degree in Sport and Social Science at the University of Bath. The 20-year-old is supported by a Trendell Family Scholarship. donated by a graduate of the University and his family, which helps student athletes to fulfill both their sporting and academic...

02 November 2012

Double Olympian Lizzie makes the move to Bath

Double Olympian Lizzie Simmonds has moved her training base to British Swimming’s Intensive Training Centre at the University of Bath. Simmonds, who was just edged out of the medals in the 200m backstroke final at the London 2012 Olympic Games, finishing fourth, has just switched from training at Loughborough to Bath. She joins a Bath ITC group that also includes Michael Jamieson, who won 200m breaststroke silver medal at the Olympics.  Andrew Willis, who set...

01 November 2012

O’Connor and Jarvis named in GB Euro Short Course team

University of Bath-based swimmers Siobahn-Marie O’Connor and Calum Jarvis have been selected to compete at the European Short Course Championships in France next month – the first international swimming championships since London 2012. The pair are members of an 18-strong GB team for the championships, which take place in Chartres from 22 to 25 November. O’Connor and Jarvis both train at the British Swimming’s British Gas Bath Intensive Training Centre. O’Connor returns to action after...

31 October 2012

Louise hunts down doubles title in Nottingham

University of Bath student Louise Hunt claimed her fifth ITF 2 women’s doubles title of the year with victory at the Nottingham indoor Wheelchair Tennis Tournament at the weekend. The London 2012 Paralympian partnered Germany’s Sabine Ellerbrock as top seeds for the Nottingham tournament. The pair took the title beating Jordanne Whiley and Lauren Jones 6-0 6-2 in the final. "I've been waiting to play doubles with Sabine for ages and it hasn't worked out...

30 October 2012

Murray reaches quarter-finals in Canada

Team Bath MCTA tennis player Samantha Murray followed up her maiden Challenger title at the Glasgow $25,000 event by reaching the quarter-finals of the $50,000 National Bank Challenger in Saguenay, Canada. Murray took out Marie-Eve Pelletier, the number eight seed from Canada in the first round, and followed that up with a win over Michaela Honcova of the Slovak Republic 6-2, 6-4. That set up a quarter-final match against WTA number 98 ranked Melanie Oudin...

29 October 2012

Varey takes bronze in Sweden

Team Bath judo player Gregg Varey collected a bronze medal at the European Cup competition in Sweden at the weekend. The 24-year-old University of Bath Sports Performance graduate finished third in the under-60kg class in the competition at Boras. Varey lost his opening round fight against France’s Thomas Cadoux-Duc, who went on to take gold. But Varey battled back in the repechage, beating two Polish opponents before defeating Sweden’s Alexander Lundqvist in the battle for...

29 October 2012