Golden finish to 2022 as Bath-based bobsleigh and skeleton athletes top the podium at IBSF World Cup in Lake Placid

It was a double gold weekend for the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association athletes who train at the University of Bath as they topped the podium twice at the IBSF World Cup at Lake Placid in the United States. Brad Hall, Arran Gulliver, Taylor Lawrence and Greg Cackett (pictured top) ended the calendar year in stunning fashion as they claimed only Great Britain’s second four-man World Cup gold since official IBSF records began. Sitting third...

18 December 2022

VIDEO: Backs to the fore as five-try Team Bath head into BUCS Super Rugby Christmas break with victory over Leeds Beckett

Team Bath will go into the Christmas break sitting second in the BUCS Super Rugby table after recording a bonus-point 35-22 victory over Leeds Beckett in bitterly-cold conditions at Shaftesbury Park, home of Bristol club Dings Crusaders. The men’s 1st XV, sponsored by Bath Building Society, scored five well-worked backs tries through Alfie Garside, Alex Clayton, Luca Mignot, Tom Carr-Smith and Sam Harris, the latter kicking all the conversions, as Team Bath recorded their eighth...

14 December 2022

Team Bath badminton players impress at English National Championships and Guernsey Closed tournament

Team Bath badminton players produced some outstanding performances when they competed at the English National Championships in Milton Keynes over the weekend. Katie Scott (pictured), who studies Psychology and is coached by Peter Bush at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, reached the last 16 of the women’s singles where she came up against Abigail Holden, the number-one ranked player in England. Team Bath Dual Career student-athlete Scott produced an incredible effort and performed against all expectations, only just...

13 December 2022

Team Bath trio in Vitality Roses squads for January matches as Jayda Pechova earns BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year nomination

Team Bath Netball Super League trio Imogen Allison, Tash Pavelin and Jayda Pechova will be on international duty in January after England today named three Vitality Roses squads for matches at the start of a World Cup year. Allison is named in a 16-strong squad for the Roses’ three-match series against Commonwealth Games silver-medallists Jamaica, with fixtures being played at the AO Arena in Manchester (11th January) and London’s Copper Box Arena (14th and 15th...

12 December 2022

Team Bath Tennis trio help GB win fifth successive medal at Master’U BNP Paribas world student team tournament

Ben Jones, Giles Hussey and Holly Hutchinson continued a proud tradition of Team Bath Tennis players helping Great Britain enjoy medal success at the world’s biggest student tennis team tournament. The trio were part of a six-strong GB squad that finished runners-up to the United States at the Master’U BNP Paribas tournament in Honfleur, France – the first time it had been contested since University of Bath graduate Jones helped Britain also win silver at...

11 December 2022

Golden duo help to open new Wheelchair Fencing National Training Centre and EIS Athlete Health & Performance Studio at University of Bath

A new dedicated training facility for the world-leading Great Britain wheelchair fencing squad has today been officially opened at the University of Bath, along with a rehabilitation studio for athletes from other Olympic and Paralympic sports. World Champions and Tokyo 2020 medallists Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver, fresh from winning four gold medals apiece at the 2022 European Championships, treated guests from the University, the English Institute of Sport (EIS), British Fencing, UK Sport and...

09 December 2022

Gold medals and national records as University of Bath student-swimmers impress at national champs in England and Portugal

There were a host of personal bests and medals, including gold for Jana Spinner and Josh Gammon, when University of Bath student swimmers impressed at the Swim England National Winter Championships 2022. Natural Sciences student Spinner secured two titles, touching the wall first in both the 100m backstroke (1:08.49) and 100m individual medley (1:01.50). She was also runner-up in the 50m breaststroke (31.63). [caption id="attachment_68254" align="alignright" width="292"] Jana Spinner (centre) won two gold medals. PICTURES:...

09 December 2022

VIDEO: Duncan Hood’s late solo try secures hard-fought win in Cardiff as Team Bath get back to BUCS Super Rugby winning ways

A superb solo try in the closing stages from Duncan Hood sealed an excellent 27-21 win in Cardiff as Team Bath immediately bounced back to BUCS Super Rugby winning ways on Wednesday. The Bath Building Society-sponsored men’s 1st XV were holding on to a single-point lead under pressure from the hosts when the Scotland U20 hooker collected a pass just inside the Cardiff half and feinted to pass before accelerating through a gap in the...

08 December 2022

Plenty of great netball for big crowd to enjoy as Team Bath make “positive” start to pre-season at entertaining home tri-tournament

Team Bath Netball Head Coach Asha Francis says her new-look Super League squad will take plenty of positives from their first pre-season run-out in Saturday’s home tri-tournament. An 800-strong crowd enjoyed three well-contested games at the Team Bath Arena as the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold hosted fellow Super League clubs London Pulse and Saracens Mavericks. It was Pulse who took home the Lyn Gunson Trophy after beating Team Bath 36-26 and Mavericks 40-39, with...

06 December 2022

GB wheelchair fencers bring super six continental crowns back to University of Bath training base from IWASF European Championships

It was another week to remember for the GB wheelchair fencing team that trains at the University of Bath as they won a super six titles at the 2022 IWASF European Championships in Warsaw, Poland. Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver secured two individual crowns apiece before joining forces with Oliver Lam-Watson and Joshua Waddell to win men’s team gold in the epee and foil competitions. [caption id="attachment_68216" align="alignright" width="216"] Piers Gilliver won gold in both...

05 December 2022