University of Bath student chosen to represent UK Sport

Second year BA Coach Education & Sports Development student Jordan Kenny has successfully landed an international development placement with UK Sport & the Wallace Group Universities over the summer of 2012. Below Jordan shares his love and dedication towards the project that has given him so much; “During my time in Zambia last summer, the vast array of sporting, cultural, lifestyle and personal experiences I was a part of were something of a revolution to...

03 February 2012

Teenager Panuga named in England women’s team for Europeans

University of Bath student Panuga Riou is the youngest member of the England women’s team picked to contest badminton's European Team Championships, it was announced today (Wednesday). The 19-year-old is one of four uncapped players in the England women’s team for the championships, which take place in Amsterdam from 14 to 19 February. Panuga is currently studying for a Coach Education and Sports Development degree at the University of Bath and receives a Jeff Trendell...

01 February 2012

Sarah Brown and Lorraine Kelly prepare for pentathlon charity challenge

Sarah Brown and Lorraine Kelly are going head-to-head in the ultimate Olympic challenge when they tackle a modern pentathlon at the University of Bath to raise money for the charity PiggyBankKids. Sarah is President of PiggyBankKids having founded the charity (charity registration number is 1092312) in 2002 with the aim of giving children in the UK the best possible opportunity to live healthy and happy lives. She recruited Lorraine Kelly when the ITV presenter asked...

31 January 2012

Team Bath outgunned but not outclassed

Team Bath’s exciting new Fiat Superleague side were outgunned but not outclassed as they went down 45-55 to Northern Thunder in front of a big home crowd at the University of Bath tonight. Coach Jess Garland experimented with a number of combinations as her side showed flashes of brilliance but also inexperience in their second defeat of the season. “This early in the season we need to know what options there are. Some of the...

30 January 2012

Staff Gold Rush marks six months to 2012 Olympics

University staff took advantage of a free offer to try new sporting activities at the Sports Training Village on Friday 27 January's opening Gold Rush event of the year. The Staff Gold Rush was held to celebrate six months to go to the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. It included an opportunity to try out a wide range of activities from bobsleigh on the push-start track to X-biking and from massage to netball. Jason...

27 January 2012

Lizzy is Junior World Champion

University of Bath-based skeleton athlete Lizzy Yarnold is the new Junior World Champion, taking gold at the Igls track in Austria. Yarnold won the junior title yesterday (Thursday), a week after winning gold at the World Cup at St Moritz in Switzerland. The 23-year-old from West Kingsdown in Kent took silver at last year's juniors.  She said: "It was a tough race with a very good field but I am delighted and really, really happy...

27 January 2012

Hat-trick of judo titles for Team Bath players

Team Bath judo players collected three titles at the British Closed Championships at Sheffield at the weekend. Jan Gosiewski and Tom Reed both impressed in taking gold medals in the senior competition at under-73kg and under-81kg respectively.  Gosiewski is a University of Bath Mechanical Engineering graduate and Reed is a Business Administration graduate. There was also a gold in the under-90kg junior competition for Sam Potts, a Sports Performance student at the University. Pharmacy graduate...

24 January 2012

Team Bath prepare to tackle Thunder and Storm

Team Bath will aim to record their first win of the 2012 Fiat Netball Superleague season when they host Northern Thunder at the Team Bath Arena on Monday (30 January). A young Team Bath side went down 61-49 to Celtic Dragons in Cardiff in their season opener on Friday night in a game that saw four Team Bath players making their Superleague debuts. The quartet of Sam Cook, Kat Hayes, Yasmin Parsons and Becky Watkins...

24 January 2012

Hunt makes terrific start to 2012

University of Bath student Louise Hunt has made a terrific start to 2012 winning back to back tournaments in Australia. Hunt, who is a Sports Performance student, won the women’s doubles title at the Melbourne Open disability event partnering Jordanne Whiley. The number three seeds beat Japanese top seeds Yui Kamiji and Yuko Okabe 6-2, 3-6, (10-6) in the final. That performance came just a week after the pair won the women’s doubles at the...

18 January 2012

Heather presents BBC West sports programme

Olympic medal winning modern pentathlete Heather Fell turns TV presenter this weekend when she co-presents BBC One West’s Olympic Dreams programme this Sunday (22 January). The Beijing 2008 silver medallist and former world number one, who trains at the Pentathlon GB high performance centre at the University of Bath, presents the programme alongside the BBC’s Alistair Durden. It includes a guide to modern pentathlon as well as a video diary with trampolinist Laura Gallagher, who...

18 January 2012