Team Bath Buccaneers' Super 6s team sealed back-to-back promotions on Sunday (January 17) after crucial wins over Doncaster and Surbiton. Led by former indoor goalkeeper and current outdoor assistant Jon Williams, the Buccaneers finished the season with a record of six wins and two draws from eight games. The Buccaneers' top-two finish sealed an impressive campaign towards the top flight of indoor hockey in the country. The road to the premier league started with victories over Southgate and...
A quartet of former Team Bath Buccaneers Hockey Club players have been named in the England squad for the EuroHockey Indoor Championships, which start in Portugal on Friday. George Farrant and Jonny Kinder, both Sports Performance graduates from the University of Bath, are joined in the 12-strong squad by Ed Horler and Toby Reynolds-Cotterill, who came through the Buccaneers’ junior ranks. They will be looking to help England, coached by Andy Halliday, make an immediate...
Talented student athletes from an array of different sports have been awarded University of Bath sporting scholarships. Among the 2015 scholars are medallists at British and World Championships, an England Hockey Cup winner and a rugby player who competed in this year’s Six Nations. University of Bath students with the potential to succeed both academically and in their chosen sport can apply for the scholarships, which are awarded each year. They are supported by alumni and...
The 2015/16 academic year may still be a week away but the University of Bath’s hockey players are already back in training ahead of the new BUCS season. Freshers and returning students have arrived on campus early to be put through their paces by Jody Paul, the University’s Head Hockey Coach. As part of their first training week, the men’s and women’s teams took on teams from Repton School in Derbyshire – one of the...
It has been a year to remember for University of Bath hockey players past and present, including domestic titles, international appearances and Commonwealth Games call-ups. The university’s men topped the British Universities and Colleges (BUCS) Southern Premier Division, while Team Bath Buccaneers’ 1st XI were crowned as NOW:Pensions Men’s Conference West champions after losing just once all season. Sports Performance student Sam Hatherley and Matt Ming, who is studying Natural Sciences, were rewarded for their...
Team Bath Buccaneers’ brave bid for promotion to the EHL Men’s Premier Division may have fallen short over the weekend but Hockey Development Manager Nick Kendall says it has still been a highly-encouraging season at the University of Bath. Men’s Conference West champions Buccs finished third in the end-of-season promotion play-offs behind strong opposition from Canterbury and Holcombe. However, they showed real quality in Saturday’s 5-3 victory over Conference North winners Bowdon at the Lee...
The achievements of volunteers and coaches with clubs based at the University of Bath were celebrated at the Bath & North East Somerset Council 2015 Chairman’s Sports Awards this week. Paralympic sprinter Katrina Hart, who is coached by Rob Ellchuk at the Sports Training Village, joined Cllr Martin Veal, the Chairman of B&NES, to present the awards during a civic reception at The Guildhall on Tuesday. Team Bath Buccaneers Hockey Club received two honours, with...
More than 1,800 college students from across Britain will get to experience the world-class facilities at the University of Bath this weekend when they compete in the AoC Sport National Championships. The Sports Training Village will provide the venue for basketball, beach volleyball, cross country, football, hockey, netball, rugby, table tennis, tennis, trampolining and volleyball, as well as opening and closing ceremonies. Evening meals will take place in the Claverton Rooms and Fountain Canteen on...
University of Bath Chemistry student Eloise Laity said she was ‘absolutely over the moon’ to be named in the Wales hockey squad for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The first year student joins University of Bath Sport and Exercise Science graduate Emma Batten in the Wales hockey squad for the Games. Laity’s selection comes just two weeks after she made her senior debut for Wales against Canada and just over a year after sustaining a...
As the Indoor Hockey season comes to a close University of Bath’s Hockey Development Manager Nick Kendall reflects on a successful term for Team Bath Buccaneers’ men. Team Bath Buccaneers’ men secured their fourth promotion in 13 months when they reached the Indoor Premier League in January 2014, something that wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the university. Nick Kendall feels it has been a mutually productive relationship for the university and Team Bath...
