Mia Ritchie, Karla Mostert and Chelsea Lewis were the main winners when Team Bath Netball staged their end-of-season awards dinner in conjunction with the Netball South West Goalden Globes. Influential centre Ritchie, dubbed the Pocket Rocket, picked up both the Coaches’ and Players’ Player of the Year prizes during Sunday’s sell-out event at Somerset CCC in Taunton. Welsh international attacker Lewis received the Endeavour Award and South African defender Mostert was named as the Supporters’...
Team Bath Netball will once again be looking to demonstrate their bouncebackability when they welcome struggling Yorkshire Jets to the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Friday (7.45pm). The Blue and Gold - backed by Carter Jonas - were beaten 54-42 by Vitality Netball Superleague play-off rivals Surrey Storm last weekend, with an 18-9 first-quarter deficit proving too big to turn around. It was Team Bath’s third defeat of the season but they produced...
Up-and-coming Team Bath Netball star Ella Powell-Davies enjoyed an international debut to remember as she helped England continue their dominance of the Netball Europe U17 Championship. The talented teenage defender, who celebrates her 17th birthday next week, helped the young Roses complete a clean sweep of victories in Gibraltar earlier this month. England’s quality at both ends of the court was immediately clear as they finished the opening quarter of their first match against Northern...
Team Bath Netball will go into this week’s big home double header against fellow Superleague top-four contenders Hertfordshire Mavericks and Loughborough Lightning on the back of an impressive weekend win at Celtic Dragons. The Blue and Gold won all four quarters at the Cwmbran Stadium in Wales on Saturday to claim a 65-45 victory overall. That result, combined with a narrow 55-54 defeat for Surrey Storm at Loughborough, moves Team Bath up to second in...
A sell-out crowd awaits Team Bath Netball for their first home match of the 2016 Vitality Superleague season – and England players Rachel Shaw and Eboni Beckford-Chambers are hoping to give the fans plenty to cheer. Around 1,600 supporters will be at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Friday to see Team Bath – backed by Carter Jonas – take on 2014 champions Manchester Thunder in a mouthwatering clash sponsored by The Royal...
Talented young Team Bath Netball player Ella Powell-Davies has been named in the England U17 squad for March’s Netball Europe tournament in Gibraltar. Powell-Davies, who plays in the National Performance League (NPL) for the Blue and Gold, earned her place after impressing at a selection camp and training weekend at the EiS Sheffield. “I was so happy when I got the call-up,” she said. “It was quite overwhelming because I didn’t really expect it. “I...
