Team Bath Buccaneers men’s indoor hockey team missed out on promotion to the top flight of the sport when they finished seventh in Division 1. The team went into a busy weekend with one win and one draw already under their belts – but could only win one and draw one of their remaining six fixtures. Buccs went down 6-2 to eventual Division 1 winners Canterbury and 4-7 to Bowdon, who went on to finish...
British sliders Adam Pengilly and Chris Type both won medals at the penultimate round of the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup in Calgary, Canada. Pengilly took silver – his second in successive days in Intercontinental Cup competitions on the same track – with Type winning bronze. Gold went to John Daly of the USA, his second win in two days, while Britain’s Ant Sawyer finished 13th. In the women’s race, GB’s Donna Creighton came 10th with Sarah...
Team Bath's Amy Williams fininshed just outside the medals in the penultimate round of the 2009/10 Skeleton World Cup in St Moritz, Switzerland today (Friday). Williams finished in fourth place, just 0.27 seconds away from bronze medal position. Williams, silver medallist at last season's World Championships, remains fifth in the overall FIBT world rankings and has finished in the top-10 in all but one of her World Cup races this season. Meanwhile, Adam Pengilly, who...
University of Bath graduate and badminton player Heather Olver is forming a new mixed doubles partnership with European mixed doubles champion Anthony Clark. The 23-year-old has been asked to partner Clark following the retirement of Donna Kellogg. The pair will play their first tournament together at the Proton Malaysia Open in January. Heather graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in Coach Education and Sports Development in 2008. In 2007 she received a...
Team Bath Buccaneers Ladies won the West Indoor tournament at the weekend to qualify to play in the Women’s Indoor England Hockey League for the first time. It means Buccs are one of just a handful of clubs to have men’s and ladies’ teams playing in both the England Hockey League outdoor and indoor leagues. Buccs were handed a walkover against West Wilts for their first game in Saturday’s competition at the University of Bath...
University of Bath-based beach volleyball player and Team 2012 athlete Lucy Boulton is profiled on the Team 2012 website, discussing her ambitions, the highs and lows of life on the beach volleyball circuit, and her goal of reaching the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The University of Bath Mens’ Rugby 1sts got their BUCS Premier South A campaign off to a flying start with a hard fought 15-8 victory over local rivals Bristol last week. Wet conditions at The Rec meant that try-scoring opportunities were hard to come by, and it was ultimately Bath’s kicking which saw off a spirited Bristol challenge. Both teams certainly struggled at the start of the game to keep hold of the ball, and...
Team Bath judo player Emmanuel Nartey has won his first World Cup title, taking gold at Apia in Samoa. Nartey beat Chinese fighter Qindong Zeng in the under-73kg class final to win the title. Nartey, who serves in the British Army and represents Ghana, was trailing the Chinese player with 30 seconds of the final remaining – but then threw him for a contest-winning Ippon score. “It’s the first time I’ve won a World Cup,”...
University of Bath students Kate Walker and Jan Gosiewski both finished just outside the medals in seventh place at the European Under-23 Judo Championships in Turkey. Pharmacy student Walker won the opening two contests in her pool in the women’s under-63kg class, beating Andreja Dakovic of Croatia and Ivana Komlosiova of Slovakia, before going down to Hungary’s Eszter Gaspar, who went on to win bronze. That put Walker in the repechage, but she lost out...
The thrills and spills of beach volleyball will be on display when the sport makes its debut at the 2010 British Beach Polo Championships at Sandbanks Beach in Poole. Players from Team Bath will feature in an exhibition match with an international flavour, the Sandbanks Slam, which will take place at the championships on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th July. Both days of the championships will feature action from the Team Bath partnering Oakley exhibition...
