Jess Shaw can’t wait to get back on court with Team Bath Netball in 2022 Superleague season after recovering from injury setback

After an injury-curtailed 2021 season, Jess Shaw says she is raring to go and eyeing a happier ending to the 2022 Vitality Superleague campaign after recommitting to Team Bath Netball. The England Futures player was in fantastic form for the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold during the early stages of the 2021 season, producing a series of dynamic displays at wing-attack and centre. Sadly she suffered an injury in training in April, resulting in a...

07 October 2021

Big turnout for first BUCS Super Rugby home match of season as Team Bath slip to frustrating derby defeat against Hartpury

It was a frustrating first home game of the new BUCS Super Rugby season for the Team Bath men’s 1st XV as they lost 32-8 to West Country rivals Hartpury in front of a big crowd at the University of Bath. The Rengen-sponsored hosts went 13-0 down early on but fought back well and had plenty of ball and territory. However, they were only able to convert that into one try and a penalty, then...

06 October 2021

Shooting star Lily Jones aiming for the top after progressing from Academy to Team Bath Netball’s 2022 Superleague squad

Exciting young shooter Lily Jones says she can’t wait to learn from her role models after becoming the latest player to progress through the Team Bath Netball talent development network into the Superleague squad. The 18-year-old from Jersey has been named in the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold squad for the 2022 Vitality Superleague campaign after excelling as captain of Team Bath’s U19s last season. She also caught the eye in a number of training...

06 October 2021

Lily-May Catling completes journey from Academy to Superleague via Australia as versatile defender joins Team Bath Netball for 2022

When Lily-May Catling first took to the Team Bath Arena court for a junior tournament at the age of 12, she looked around and thought ‘I want to play Superleague netball here’. Fourteen years on and the defender will get to fulfil that dream in the famous Blue & Gold after joining Haines Watts-sponsored Team Bath Netball for the 2022 Vitality Superleague season. It’s been quite a journey for Catling, who grew up in Wimborne...

06 October 2021

England U21 captain Molly Hole completes rise through Team Bath Netball ranks after being named in 2022 Superleague squad

She is one of the most exciting prospects in English netball, can play at both ends of the court, is U21 captain for club and country – and now Molly Hole is also part of the Team Bath Netball Vitality Superleague squad for the 2022 season. It continues an incredible rise through the ranks for the hugely-talented 18-year-old, who first started with the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold at their regional hub in Dorset five...

05 October 2021

Paralympic Games multiple medallist Stephanie Millward announces retirement from competitive swimming after glittering career

Ten-time Paralympic Games medallist and University of Bath Hall of Fame for Sport inductee Stephanie Millward has announced her retirement from competitive swimming. The Team Bath AS swimmer has a long association with the University of Bath, having trained there a teenager before a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis put her swimming career on hold for ten years. Upon her return to the pool she quickly became one of the world's leading Paralympic swimmers, representing GB at...

05 October 2021

Player-coach Rachel Shaw targeting Superleague and BUCS netball trophy double as she returns to Blue & Gold for ninth season

Rachel Shaw is eyeing a trophy double as she goes into her ninth Vitality Superleague season with Team Bath Netball. As well as targeting the Superleague crown with the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold, the influential wing-attack is also coach of the University of Bath’s talented student squad who are returning to BUCS [British Universities & Colleges Sport] competition this week after a year out. “This is my ninth season with Team Bath and I’m...

05 October 2021

Kim Borger and Team Bath Netball have “unfinished business” as Aussie shooter returns to UK for fourth Vitality Superleague season

Super shooter Kim Borger says she and her team-mates have “unfinished business” in the Vitality Superleague after being confirmed as the first member of a star-studded Team Bath Netball squad for the 2022 season. It will be a fourth year in the UK for the inspirational Australian, who topped the Superleague shooting stats with an incredible 93 per cent conversion rate as she helped fire the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold to the 2021 Superleague...

04 October 2021

Strong second-half showing from Leeds Beckett leaves Team Bath looking to bounce back in first BUCS Super Rugby home match

Team Bath men’s 1st XV produced a competitive first-half performance before a strong Leeds Beckett side pulled away to take the victory on the opening day of the 2021-22 BUCS Super Rugby season. The Rengen-sponsored visitors conceded a converted try inside the first minute of Wednesday’s match at Headingley Campus but quickly responded with a George Worboys penalty, followed by an Alfie Garside try which put them 8-7 up. Leeds hit back with another John...

30 September 2021

University of Bath students past and present help Great Britain Sevens continue winning week in Canada with second Fast Four success

Student Grace Crompton and University of Bath alumni Amy Wilson Hardy and Chantelle Miell helped Great Britain Rugby 7s claim HSBC Fast Four victory in Canada for a second week running, this time taking the title in Edmonton. Rio Olympian Wilson Hardy, who studied Integrated Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, was on the scoresheet as GB beat the United States 22-5 in the final. She had also opened the scoring in a 29-19 success in the...

27 September 2021