Day 2 of the Aegon GB Pro-Series Tennis championships at the University of Bath saw the concluding rounds of the women’s singles qualification take place. Team Bath MCTA Academy player Jessica Simpson faced Natalia Vajdova from Slovakia. The Slovakian started the stronger of the two, breaking Simpson’s serve in the sixth game before going on to win the set 6-4. In the second set Simpson began to play her own game and tried to come...
University of Bath sports performance graduate Zoe Shipperley has been named today in the England squad for the Commonwealth Games next month. Defender Shipperley will make her Games debut and has 12 England caps so far. Ten nations will be participating in each of the men’s and women’s hockey competitions at Glasgow 2014. In the preliminary rounds, teams will be split into two pools of five. The top two teams in each pool will progress...
Team Bath’s Lynne Hutchison has been named amongst a 13-strong England gymnastics squad to compete at this summer’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The 19 year-old trains at Team Bath’s Sports Training Village with coach Sarah Moon. She is also a member of the City of Bath Rhythmic Gymnastics Club. For Hutchison, who took up gymnastics aged six, Glasgow is a second Commonwealth Games call-up. She competed in Delhi in 2010 and won bronze in the...
Nine University of Bath-connected track and field athletes have today (Monday) been named in the England team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Hurdlers Lawrence Clarke and Seb Rodger and 200m sprinter and Sports Performance graduate Danny Talbot headline the list which includes athletes coached by Malcolm Arnold, James Hillier and Dan Coussins. Clarke is joined by William Sharman in the 110m hurdles in Glasgow. Clarke trains at the University’s £30 million Sports Training...
Bath-based swimmer Siobhan-Marie O’Connor won gold in the 200m individual medley at the Mare Nostrum swimming international in Barcelona over the weekend. O’Connor, who trains at the National Centre for Swimming at the University of Bath, also set a Championships record of 2:09.63. She was part of a strong British Gas-backed British Swimming squad who came home with 13 medals, including three golds. O’Connor led the final throughout and was close to a British record....
Team Bath's Zeo Superleague side got back to winning ways tonight with a ten-goal 59-49 win over Yorkshire Jets at the University's Sports Training Village. The win secured a semi-final berth with one match still to play in the league phase of this year's event. Team Bath did the main damage in the second quarter of tonight's affair, flying into a 27-19 lead from 18-16. Team Bath had come into today's fixture after a dramatic...
Team Bath's Zeo Superleague Head Coach Jess Thirlby is determined that her players should take "every piece of learning possible" from a topsy-turvy 49-49 home draw against Hertfordshire Mavericks. The home side turned round a seven-goal deficit at half-time to lead 48-46 with under three minutes to go at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. A couple of unforced errors and a missed final-second attempt on goal allowed Mavericks to sneak back and snatch...
Team Bath’s netballers battled hard but went down to table-toppers Surrey Storm 51-61 at the University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight (17 March) in the Zeo Netball Superleague. Storm played a blinder in defence and were sharper at getting the ball through to their shooters. Team Bath's England mid-court player Serena Guthrie remained up-beat despite the defeat. She said: "Obviously we are disappointed to go down by ten goals but Surrey are a good...
Reigning ZEO Netball Superleague champions Team Bath will take on Celtic Dragons in a re-run of last year’s final on Friday week (28 February) at the University of Bath in a televised clash. The home match will come a week after Team Bath take on Yorkshire Jets away. Spectators at the Sports Training Village could be in for an exciting ride as Team Bath have come through a recent flurry of nail-biting encounters. Coach Jess...
Team Bath’s netballers got their defence of their ZEO Superleague title off to a winning start with a 59-45 victory over Team Northumbria at the University of Bath Sports Training Village tonight (31 January). Team Bath’s line-up included England players Serena Guthrie, Pamela Cookey, Mia Rtichie and Stacey Francis. Aussie Georgia Beaton, from the ANZ, made her debut for the visitors at goal-defence, in a team with a strong Northern Ireland flavour. Northumrbria opened at...
