University of Bath-based swimmer Andrew Willis has been named in a 16-strong British Swimming squad for December’s FINA World Short-Course Championships in Windsor, Canada. The double Olympian, who missed out on a 200m breaststroke medal at Rio 2016 by just eight-hundredths of a second, will be competing in the faster waters of the 25m pool from December 6-12. British Swimming Head Coach Bill Furniss has challenged his squad to use the event to practice vital...
The University of Bath men’s rugby team are “raring to go” as they prepare to travel up to Newcastle to kick off their inaugural BUCS Super Rugby campaign. Friday evening’s match against Northumbria University is being played at Kingston Park, home of Aviva Premiership club Newcastle Falcons, and starts an exciting few weeks for the University of Bath team. Next Wednesday (October 19) sees them play their first home fixture against Loughborough University on the...
Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic medalists received a heroes’ welcome on Wednesday when they celebrated their stunning summer of sporting success with students and staff at the University of Bath. Six Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes who train at the University’s world-class Sports Training Village – athletes Paul Blake, Emily Diamond and Eilidh Doyle plus swimmers Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Chris Walker-Hebborn – were joined by graduate Heather Stanning, the double rowing Olympic champion,...
Team Bath Netball’s Paige Reed (left) and Jess Shaw (right) have both been confirmed in the England U21 long squad for the 2017 Netball World Youth Cup in Botswana. The 20-strong squad includes all 12 of the successful Netball Europe team that recorded three wins from three in Cardiff over the weekend to lift the title in Team Bath Assistant Coach Emily Perry’s first tournament as Head Coach of the Roses. University of Bath Sports Performance...
England Netball U21s will get their Netball Europe competition under way on Friday evening after two days of top-class preparation at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. The squad spent Wednesday and Thursday having training drills in the STV sports hall and working out in the Team Bath Gym. They also faced Team Bath Netball in a practice match as they warmed up for this weekend’s competition against the other Home Nations. The sessions...
University of Bath-based Charlie Attwood is one of 16 potential Tokyo 2020 Olympians selected by British Swimming to attend an altitude training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona later this month. It is the first of ten altitude camps that will take place between now and the Tokyo Games and each swimmer chosen is considered to be of the optimal age and performance profile to excel at the next Olympics. Attwood is starting his second season of...
Fresher Levi Davis has arrived at the University of Bath determined to continue his education both in the lecture hall and on the rugby pitch. The Sports Performance student, an England U18 international, is part of the University squad for the new BUCS Super Rugby league and has also made two appearances for Bath Rugby’s 2nd XV so far this season, scoring a second-half try against Saracens Storm at The Rec on Monday. In an...
Team Bath Netball’s Emily Perry will stage her first training camp as the new England U21 Head Coach at the University of Bath this week. The next generation of Roses players will be at the Sports Training Village on Wednesday and Thursday (October 5&6) as they continue building towards the 2017 Netball World Youth Cup in Botswana. Perry was previously assistant to former Team Bath player Tamsin Greenway, who has stepped down from the England...
Pentathlon GB’s Jamie Cooke and Samantha Murray narrowly missed out on a podium place after strong performance in the mixed relay at Sunday’s Kremlin Cup in Moscow. In their first appearances since the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the University of Bath-based duo – renowned as two of the best swimmers on the international pentathlon circuit – got off to a storming start by finishing three seconds clear of the field in the pool. Twenty wins...
Rio 2016 Olympians Jamie Cooke and Samantha Murray will head to Moscow this weekend to represent Pentathlon GB in the Kremlin Cup. The University of Bath-based athletes will both be making their debuts in the invitational event, which will see 12 nations competing in a mixed relay on Sunday. Murray, who won Olympic silver at the London 2012 Games, was the highest-placed former medallist in Rio as she finished ninth overall after a strong second...
