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

Excitement and ambition levels high as Team Bath men’s 1st XV prepare to resume BUCS Super Rugby action after long wait

It may be 18 months since their last league match but ambition remains high for the University of Bath men’s 1st XV ahead of their eagerly-awaited return to action in the 2021-22 BUCS Super Rugby season. The Rengen-sponsored squad make the journey to Yorkshire to face Leeds Beckett on Wednesday 29th September (kick-off 2pm) and can’t wait to get going as the country’s leading higher-education rugby institutions resume rivalries following the postponement of the 2020-21...

23 September 2021

“A festival of netball” as nearly 200 rising stars from South West compete in first-ever Team Bath Academy tournament

Nearly 200 talented netballers aged 14-18 from across the South West of England competed in the first-ever Team Bath Netball Academy tournament at the University of Bath on Sunday. Fourteen teams, two from each of the seven regional Academy Development Centres, got to experience playing in the Team Bath Arena, home to the Blue & Gold’s Vitality Superleague squad, during the day-long competition supported by Haines Watts, Team Bath’s principal sponsor. Fifteen coaches from the...

21 September 2021

Student Grace Crompton scores six tries during debut competition to help GB Rugby Sevens win Women’s Fast Four in Vancouver

University of Bath student Grace Crompton made a big impact in her debut tournament with GB Rugby Sevens as she helped them win gold in the HSBC Sevens Women’s Fast Four competition in Vancouver, Canada. Crompton, who is about to start the second year of a Sport Management & Coaching degree course, joined University of Bath graduate Amy Wilson Hardy on the scoresheet as Great Britain beat the United States 34-12 in the final. She...

20 September 2021

Giles Hussey and Sonay Kartal take the honours after exciting week of UK Pro League tennis at Team Bath Sports Training Village

Team Bath Tennis player Giles Hussey enjoyed home success and there was a third consecutive victory for Sonay Kartal when the University of Bath hosted Round 7 of the 2021 UK Pro League tennis tournament. An exciting week of televised competition on the indoor courts at the Team Bath Sports Training Village ended with Hussey beating Round 6 winner Billy Harris 6-3 6-4 in the men’s final. [caption id="attachment_66032" align="alignright" width="292"] Giles Hussey in action...

19 September 2021

Team Bath player and coach Anya Le Monnier excited to be accepted onto England Netball Pathway Coach Development Programme

Team Bath Netball’s Anya Le Monnier is among a handful of coaches nationally to be accepted onto the England Netball Pathway Coach Development Programme for the 2021-22 season. Le Monnier was a training partner for the Blue & Gold Superleague squad last season and also assistant coach of Team Bath’s U19s in the National Performance League (NPL). She has a long-time passion for coaching, having studied Sports Performance at the University of Bath and taken...

08 September 2021