On St George’s Day, Team Bath netballer Serena Guthrie reflects that great coffee, having fun and recovery sessions in the pool are all key memories of England’s glorious 2018 Commonwealth Games gold-medal winning run on Australia’s gold coast. “We had so much fun that tournament and the sun was shining," said the England legend who is also bringing her inimitable style of fun, energy and sporting brilliance to Team Bath Netball’s table-topping performances in her...
More talented young netballers from across the South West will now have the chance to develop their game the Blue and Gold way following the launch of a new Team Bath Netball Futures Pathway. Two Team Bath Netball Academies and three Team Bath Netball “Hubs” have been set up across the region, allowing 80 aspiring netballers, aged from 14 to 21, to benefit from top-class coaching and lifestyle and sports science support. This new network...
Team Bath are the fifth Netball Superleague team to be confirmed for the British Fast5 All-Stars Championship at The O2, London on Saturday, September 23. Team Bath moved into the Netball Superleague top four with victory over Sirens last Friday evening, their sixth consecutive win, with two matches now left to play. In September they will face many of the same teams in a new prize-money event sanctioned by England Netball and to be staged...
Fresh from their tri-tournament success this weekend the Team Bath Netball family has welcomed a new member in Centurion Wealth Management. The Corston-based firm of financial and wealth management advisers will support the team with finance aimed particularly at developing the team’s performance analysis capabilities. “Team Bath Netball is already a strong force nationally as well as a high-achieving local team. We wanted to reward and help develop that excellence by providing the netballers with...
England U21 international Jess Shaw is among an exciting eight-strong group of players who have committed themselves to Team Bath Netball for the 2017 Vitality Netball Superleague season. Returning favourites Eboni Beckford-Chambers, Samantha Cook, Chelsea Lewis, Paige Reed, Mia Ritchie and Rachel Shaw, Jess’s older sister, also join new arrival Layla Guscoth – an England defender and former Superleague player of the year – in forming the foundations of a dynamic squad for the year ahead....
Alana John (left) and Paige Reed (right) will become the latest Team Bath Netball players to represent their country when they go on tour with England Netball U21s this week. They will head to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra to take part in matches against Australian and New Zealand sides from August 4-15. Team Bath Netball Assistant Coach Emily Perry will also add to her international experience when she assists Head Coach Tamsin Greenway on...
Team Bath Netball are looking to the future with great excitement after their status as the Vitality Superleague franchise for the South West of England was confirmed by England Netball for another four years. The decision follows a rigorous tender process by England Netball, which saw Team Bath overcome strong competition from other bidders. University of Bath Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley led a presentation to England Netball which reflected not only pride in Team...
Team Bath Netball’s Karla Mostert and Lenize Potgieter found themselves on opposite sides when they contested the Brutal Fruit Netball Premier League final in their native South Africa on Saturday. And it was Mostert - the Team Bath Supporters' Player of the Season - who emerged on the winning side as she produced a player-of-the-match performance to help the Free State Crinums to a 52-43 victory over Potgieter’s Gauteng Jaguars. It was the third year running that...
Team Bath Netball duo Chelsea Lewis and Amanda Varey have been named in the Wales squad for this summer’s tour of South Africa. Awaiting them in the SPAR Proteas line-up will be two familiar faces, Karla Mostert and Lenize Potgieter, who also played in the Blue and Gold this season. Wales will fly out to Durban on June 12 for a three-match series against the team currently ranked number five in the world. Former Team...
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’...
