University of Bath Chemistry student Eloise Laity said she was ‘absolutely over the moon’ to be named in the Wales hockey squad for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The first year student joins University of Bath Sport and Exercise Science graduate Emma Batten in the Wales hockey squad for the Games. Laity’s selection comes just two weeks after she made her senior debut for Wales against Canada and just over a year after sustaining a...
University of Bath graduates Mariana Agathangelou and Alex Hutchings will play badminton for Jersey at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Agathangelou is a Coach Education and Sports Development graduate who played for England at the Delhi Games in 2010 where she was a member of the England team that won team bronze. She also partnered fellow University of Bath graduate Heather Olver in the women’s doubles, reaching the quarter-finals. Agathanelou has now returned to play...
Five University of Bath–based judo players, including the brother and sister pair of Ben and Megan Fletcher, were today (Tuesday) named in the England team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The Fletchers (pictured right) are joined in the team by Jan Gosiewski, currently studying for a Biomechanics PhD at the University of Bath, as well as graduate Tom Reed and by Gary Hall, meaning Bath judokas take up five places on England’s...
Team Bath midcourter Mia Ritchie is aiming to win a place on the England team at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. As well as playing for Team bath in the ZEO Netball Superleague, Mia is a University of Bath graduate. She studied Sports Performance here, completing her studies in 2013. Watch our Team Bath TV movie to find out how the inspirational player combines training with her work as a teacher, and how much she...
Nine University of Bath based swimmers were today (Wednesday) selected to represent England at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The list includes three swimmers who medalled at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealths, two University of Bath students and five Commonwealth Games debutants. Joe Roebuck, Lizzie Simmonds and Chris Walker-Hebborn won medals at Delhi four years ago and train at British Swimming’s National Training Centre for Swimming at the University, where they are coached by Dave McNulty...
Team Bath judo player Emmanuel Nartey is aiming to make history when he competes at his second Commonwealth Games this summer. Nartey has been selected to represent Ghana at the Glasgow 2014 Games and is likely to be one of just a handful of judo players to contest both the Manchester Games in 2002 – when judo last appeared at Commonwealths - and return to action in Glasgow. The 30-year-old is ranked 29th in the...
University of Bath student Kristian Callaghan has been named among the first English athletes to be selected to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 20-year-old Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering student is a member of England’s shooting team for the Games. His selection comes just days after International Security student Alexander Beaton was chosen to swim for Guernsey at his second Commonwealths. Callaghan, who is on the second year of his degree at...
University of Bath-based swimmer and graduate Michael Jamieson was today (Wednesday) named in the Scotland team to compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 25-year-old, who trains at the British Gas National Centre for Swimming at the University, will contest the 100m and 200m breaststroke at the Games. He won silver for Scotland in the 200m breaststroke at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealths and followed that up with silver for Great Britain at the London...
University of Bath-based swimmer Siobhan-Marie O’Connor set a 200m individual medley English record last night (Sunday) to win her second gold medal of the 2014 British Gas Swimming Championships in Glasgow. The 18-year-old, who trains at British Swimming's National Centre for Swimming at the University, added the medley title to the 200m freestyle gold and 100m butterfly silver she won earlier in the championships. O'Connor (right) set a new 200m IM record of 2:09.71, well...
Bath-based swimmers including Andrew Willis, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn will this week battle for places at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The competition for places on the Scottish team got underway at last week’s Scottish Gas National Open Swimming Championships. Attention now turns to the British Gas Swimming Championships, which begin today (Thursday 10 April) and run to 15 April and are part of the selection processes for both the England and Scotland teams...
