Team Bath kept that winning feeling going today for the home fans with a solid but not spectacular 61-35 netball Superleague victory over Team Northumbria at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village. Mia Ritchie, the all-action pocket-rocket in the mid-court for the home team, summed up the mood in the post-match camp when she said that they were “not as happy as we would have liked to be”. “We didn’t put them under enough...
Crowds at the University of Bath Sports Training Village saw history in the making tonight as England took on and beat Australia 58-53 – only their third win over the 11-times World Netball Champions since 1956. A delighted England and Team Bath stalwart Stacey Francis said: “We were very confident before the game. We had a good feeling about it and Bath is not a place that we are used to losing in”. Indeed Team...
Natasha Maslen, a 19 year-old Sports Performance student, won bronze at the European Cup last weekend in Malaga, Spain, to take Team Bath’s tally of senior international medals to ten this year. Maslen is now ranked fourth in the UK in the under-70kgs category just behind 2012 Olympic silver medallist Gemma Gibbons who also trained with Team Bath in the past. “We have a very good base of athletes at the moment at Team Bath...
The University of Bath has been chosen as the filming location for a one-off spectacular Olympic “Superstars” special to celebrate the successes of 2012. Sporting celebrities including Mo Farah, Katherine Grainger, triathlon’s Brownlee brothers and Christine Ohuruogu will be in Bath for the event which will screen on BBC One as part of the Christmas schedule. A trio of Bath-connected Olympians will also compete on the show – swimming silver medallist Michael Jamieson, a current...
Team Bath MCTA tennis player Samantha Murray has won the Aegon GB Pro-Series Glasgow title. The victory marks the first Challenger event title for a Team Bath tennis player. In the final, 25 year-old Murray defeated seventh seed Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 to win her first ever title at a Futures level. On her way to the final, unseeded Murray recorded some impressive wins over second seeded Romanian Cristina-Andreea Mitu, whom...
With the students now back on campus, staff and students will get the opportunity to celebrate together the achievements of current and recent University of Bath students who won medals at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Heather Stanning, a Bath graduate and winner of Team GB’s first gold of the Games in the sport of rowing with Helen Glover, will headline a list of athletes from both Games who will be at the University’s...
Team Bath netball fans can start to snap up tickets to watch their favourite team in action in the new Superleague campaign. Tickets have now gone on sale today for Team Bath’s first home fixtures in the 2013 Superleague The 2013 Superleague team is due to be announced at the beginning of December, but the team have already received a boost with news that England international Pamela Cookey is returning to play for the team...
