England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Wales senior and age-group internationals are among the 69 players selected in Team Bath Netball’s Netball Performance League (NPL) and Player Development Programme (PDP) squads for the 2022-23 season. The U21s, looking to build on last season’s double bronze-medal success in the national league and knockout competitions, include four members of Team Bath’s Super League squad – goal-keeper Jayda Pechova, mid-courter Phoebe Maslen and attackers Sophie Kelly and...
Former Team Bath Netball defender Chani Wopara says she is relishing working with a youthful squad eager to learn and improve after returning to the club as Assistant Super League Coach for the 2023 season. Wopara, who first joined the club at NPL age-group level in 2005, represented the Blue & Gold during the 2012 Super League campaign and helped them reach the semi-finals. Among her team-mates that year was Kadeen Corbin, who has also...
Team Bath Netball’s Tash Pavelin and Jayda Pechova made their first senior England appearances as the Roses narrowly missed out on a medal at the 2022 Fast5 Netball World Series in New Zealand. The Blue & Gold Super League defenders were part of a Roses squad that were just two points behind the hosts at half-time of Sunday’s bronze-medal match before the Silver Ferns pulled away to win 39-25. It had been a different story...
Team Bath Netball Super League players and coaches helped to deliver an empowering day of sport for young girls from Bath and North East Somerset. The Be Inspired Netball Day was a collaboration between Team Bath, Prior Park College, who hosted the event, and St John’s Foundation, one of the UK’s oldest charities, and saw the Blue & Gold stars share their netball knowledge with Year 6 pupils from eight schools in the region, as...
New Team Bath Netball Super League recruit Jayda Pechova has been shortlisted for SportsAid’s prestigious One-to-Watch Award. Previous winners of the honour include Tom Daley, Courtney Tulloch, Amber Hill, Morgan Lake and Alex Yee. Around 1,000 young athletes from 60 different sports receive support from the national charity every year but only 10 are in line for the One-to-Watch Award and Pechova is thrilled to be on that shortlist. “I was so shocked, I didn’t...
Imogen Allison co-captained England to a Test series success and new recruit Bethan Dyke was named as player of the tournament for Wales as Team Bath Netball Super League stars impressed on international duty against Uganda. Mid-courter Allison started at centre in the opening 60-51 victory and then impressed at wing-defence as the Vitality Roses wrapped up a series win by beating the She Cranes 53-45 in match two. The Blue & Gold star, who...
Livewire New Zealand mid-courter Ali Wilshier says she cannot wait to immerse herself in the “family culture” at Team Bath Netball after today being confirmed as the final member of the club’s 2023 Superleague squad. The 23-year-old centre and wing-attack has spent the past two seasons with Southern Steel in the ANZ Premiership, where she established a reputation as a ‘pocket rocket’ with speed and finesse around the attacking circle. Now she is ready to...
Tash Pavelin has received her first senior international call-up as she joins fellow Team Bath Netball Superleague player Imogen Allison in the England squad for October’s home Vitality International Series against Uganda She Cranes. Pavelin and Blue & Gold new girl Jayda Pechova have also been named in the Vitality Roses squad for November’s FAST5 Netball World Series in New Zealand, while Allison is in the group that will head to Australia to face the...
Team Bath Netball’s U15s produced the club’s best-ever result at a School Games as they won a brilliant bronze at the 2022 tournament following a series of sparkling performances in Loughborough. Sascha Dale, Amalia Eneanya-Bonito, Camille Collins, Molly Gibbs, Mae Haines, Sophie Lock, Zoe Maynard, Phoebe Moloney, Olivia Pitt, Lily Rutland, Madison Sims and Martha Vujicic made up the talented 12-strong squad that won five of their seven matches over the weekend. The Blue &...
Team Bath Netball has today unveiled a vibrant new-look squad for the 2023 Superleague season that is ready to write a new chapter in the club’s famous history. Seven members of the 2022 squad have recommitted to the Haines Watts-sponsored Blue & Gold including Imogen Allison and Betsy Creak, fresh from this summer’s Commonwealth Games. Defenders Tash Pavelin and Lily-May Catling are also back, as are exciting young attacking trio Kirsty Harris, Lily Jones and...
