Play-off hopes left in balance as Team Bath men’s 1st XV suffer heavy BUCS Super Rugby defeat at Cardiff Arms Park

Team Bath are still waiting to secure their place in the end-of-season play-offs after suffering a heavy defeat during Wednesday’s BUCS Super Rugby visit to Cardiff. The Rengen-sponsored men’s 1st XV held a narrow 15-14 lead at half-time under the floodlights at Cardiff Arms Park but the second half proved one to forget as they conceded 43 unanswered points. The result means that Cardiff move above Bath, who slip into the eighth and final play-off...

03 March 2022

Team Bath making first of two trips to Wales in a week for crunch clash with Cardiff in battle for BUCS Super Rugby top-eight finish

Team Bath kick off the final week of the 2021-22 BUCS Super Rugby league season at Cardiff University today (6pm) with the first of two crunch trips to Wales in seven days. The Rengen-sponsored men's 1st XV know a win would go a long way to securing an all-important top-eight finish and a place in the end-of-season knockout stages. They currently sit seventh in the table, two points above Cardiff who also have a game...

02 March 2022

Derby-day determination earns Team Bath Netball victory at Severn Stars ahead of a massive March home run in Superleague

Team Bath Netball go into a massive March in positive and determined mood after emerging victorious from a pulsating Vitality Superleague derby at Severn Stars. Momentum ebbed and flowed as the West Country rivals went toe to toe at the University of Gloucester Arena on Saturday but it was the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold – with South African star defender Phumza Maweni in their starting seven for the first time – who held their...

01 March 2022

VIDEO: Watch highlights of thrilling derby-day encounter at Severn Stars as Team Bath Netball get back to winning ways in Superleague

The first West Country derby of the 2022 Vitality Superleague season proved to be a memorable one as Team Bath Netball dug deep for a 48-45 victory over Severn Stars at the University of Gloucester. The Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold trailed by two at the end of the third quarter but held their nerve well to level the scores before scoring the last three goals of a cracking contest to take the points. Enjoy some highlights from the match...

27 February 2022

Team Bath Netball looking for response to Storm setback as they head to Severn Stars for West Country Superleague derby

It’s derby day for Team Bath Netball this weekend as they make the short journey to the University of Gloucester Arena to face West Country rivals Severn Stars. Both teams head into Saturday’s match (6pm centre-pass) looking to bounce back from home defeats in Round 4 of the 2022 Vitality Superleague, with the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold slipping to a 62-58 reverse against Surrey Storm and Stars going down 62-52 to early pacesetters Saracens Mavericks. Team Bath and England star...

25 February 2022

Stunning laser-run fires Jess Varley to silver medal as Bath students past and present impress for Pentathlon GB at Budapest Indoors

University of Bath alumna Jess Varley produced a stunning laser-run to win silver for Pentathlon GB at the Budapest International Open in Hungary, the curtain-raiser for the 2022 international modern pentathlon season. Natural Sciences graduate Varley, who won two of Pentathlon GB’s National Ranking Events at the Team Bath Sports Training Village this winter and was runner-up in the third, started the decisive discipline of the women’s A final more than a minute behind the...

24 February 2022

Effort undermined by errors as Team Bath’s final home game of BUCS Super Rugby season ends in frustrating defeat to Cardiff Met

Team Bath’s final home game of the 2021-22 BUCS Super Rugby league season proved to be a frustrating one as they were beaten 40-24 by Cardiff Met. The Rengen-sponsored men’s 1st XV matched their opponents physically for much of the evening and were only trailing by two tries at half-time but couldn’t make the most of having a strong wind in their favour during the second period as errors at either end of the field...

23 February 2022

Last home BUCS Super Rugby league match tonight as Team Bath take on Cardiff Met at Sports Training Village – free to watch!

Team Bath's last home match of the BUCS Super Rugby league season promises to be a cracker as Varsity rivals Cardiff Met head to the Sports Training Village for tonight's showdown (6.30pm kick-off, free to watch). Spectators have turned out in big numbers to cheer on the Rengen-sponsored men's 1st XV in this season's matches and have been treated to some entertaining matches, with 476 points scored at an average of 60 per game. Team...

23 February 2022

University of Bath student-athletes bring home 17 medals across four sports from first BUCS Nationals competition for two years

University of Bath student-athletes won a host of medals in athletics, badminton, fencing and swimming when they headed to Sheffield over the weekend for the first BUCS Nationals competition to be staged for two years. There was a medal of each colour for the University’s badminton players, coached by Peter Bush, with Molly Chapman and Santander Sporting Scholar Will Jones (both Sports Performance) taking the mixed doubles title. Jones also claimed men’s doubles silver with...

22 February 2022

Graduate Tim Nurse wins first senior England Hockey caps as Team Bath Buccs history-maker Liam Sanford reaches milestone

University of Bath graduate Tim Nurse made his senior England Hockey debut when the national men's team travelled to Argentina for a FIH Hockey Pro League double-header in Buenos Aires. Nurse, who was supported by a King Sporting Scholarship as he combined hockey and studying Sports Performance, came off the bench for his first cap in Saturday's 2-0 defeat and also got game-time in the following day's 3-1 reverse. Team-mate Jack Turner said after Saturday's...

21 February 2022