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News Archive, Month: January 2018

Super six more University-based sportspeople get Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth call

05 January 2018

Another six University of Bath-based athletes representing four nations in three different sports will be heading out to Australia in April to compete in the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. Sprinter Leon Reid has been named in the Northern Ireland athletics squad, while MJ Church ambassador Anna Hopkin, Jessica Fullalove and Cameron Kurle are in the second wave of swimmers selected by Team England following last month’s trials. Economics and Mathematics student Jessica Li, coached...

BBC Sport to show live coverage of Team Bath Netball tri-tournament in groundbreaking agreement

04 January 2018

Netball fans are set for a treat this weekend when Team Bath, Wasps Netball and Severn Stars feature in a tri-tournament which is sold-out but which will be streamed live on the BBC Sport website, BBC Sport app and available via the Red Button on connected TVs. Saturday's annual Tri-Tournament – staged in the Team Bath Arena at the University of Bath – will this year receive global exposure through the online coverage announced by Team...

Slider Dom Parsons refreshed and ready to work on improvements as Winter Olympic year gets under way

03 January 2018

After recharging his batteries over the Christmas break, skeleton ace Dom Parsons is sliding into a Winter Olympic year confident of finding the improvements he needs to challenge for a medal in PyeongChang. The University of Bath Mechanical Engineering PhD student is currently ranked 12th in the BMW ISBF World Cup men’s skeleton rankings after the first five races of the 2017-18 season, with his best result being ninth place at Winterberg last month. Parsons admits...

Creating impact: How Team Bath Gym and an inspirational trainer helped me cast off the crutches

01 January 2018

From identifying a fitness goal to achieving her target and more, Carrie Fletcher's experiences in the Team Bath Gym are a motivational example of how New Year's Resolutions can have a profound and positive impact on their health and lifestyle. At the start of 2017, Carrie was using two crutches after a cycling accident but such is the improvement in her mobility and health - both physically and mentally - after working with personal trainer...

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