The University of Bath has welcomed today's (Thursday) announcement that it has been chosen to host the British Paralympic team's preparation camps in the build-up to the London 2012 Paralympic Games. ParalympicsGB athletes, coaches and support staff will attend the preparation camps at the University of Bath's Claverton campus between now and London 2012, as well as in the immediate lead up to the Games. ParalympicsGB selected Bath to host its preparation camps in an...
Four Bath-based beach volleyball players made their debut appearances at the World Championships in Stavanger, Norway. Both Lucy Boulton & Denise Johns and Zara Dampney & Shauna Mullin contested the opening pool stages of the competition. They were the first British teams to compete at the beach volleyball World Championships for a decade. British Volleyball’s beach volleyball programme is based at the University of Bath. Boulton and Johns started their campaign in pool E with...
Team Bath judo player Darrren Harris struck bronze at the visually impaired European Championships in Hungary. Harris, who represented Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, beat Ilkin Alishov of Azerbaijan in the bronze medal contest at the championships in Debrecen. He started his campaign in the under-66kg class with a bye and then beat Spain’s Antonio Lopez in the second round. But defeat at the hands of Russia’s Nukh Salikhov saw Harris go...
Some of the brightest young beach volleyball players in the south west will be in action at the University of Bath at the Team Bath Junior Beach Volleyball Grand Slam Tournament on Saturday 4th July. The event is part of the South West Volleyball Association’s inaugural Junior Beach Tour. The tour features eight events culminating in the finals at Sandbanks in Dorset in September. The Team Bath event takes place on the outdoor beach at...
Team Bath judo player Darren Harris has been selected to represent Great Britain at next month’s Visually Impaired European Championships in Hungary. Darren is a member of Britain’s five-strong team for the championships, which take place in Debrecen from 3-5 July. He contests the under-66kg class, the division in which he competed at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. Last month Darren won gold in the under-66kg class at the German Open, when he also collected...
The University of Bath pair of Jake Sheaf and Josh Randall won beach volleyball’s national Student Cup in their first tournament playing together. It was a good tournament for University of Bath players – Jake and Josh beat fellow University of Bath students Seain Cook and Chris Gregory 21-12, 21-17 in the final. Jake and Josh went through the draw without dropping a set, which included a 15-4, 15-6 semi-final victory over the Southampton University...
The Team Bath Futsal side went down 6-2 in a friendly against the full England Futsal side in Hereford. Team Bath went a couple of goals down early on, but then Ian Parkes got on the end of a Dave Jennings pull back to put the University of Bath side back in the game at 2-1. Parkes scored with his second attempt after his first effort was blocked. Team Bath were on top for the...
University of Bath student Marcon Bezzina has won her sixth medal at the Games of the Small States of Europe. Bezzina won bronze for Malta in the under-63kg class judo competition at the Games in Cyprus. It was her sixth medal at the Games of the Small States of Europe following her bronze in the individual competition and silver in the team event on her debut in 2003, her gold in the individual and silver...
University of Bath graduate Adam Freeman-Pask set Britain on course for a terrific weekend at the opening rowing World Cup of the year. Freeman-Pask won Britain’s first medal of the weekend – a bronze in the lightweight men’s single scull in Saturday’s final at Banyoles in Spain. He had to do it the hard way, battling through the repechage after finishing fourth in his heat. But he went on to finish second in his semi...
Team Bath players Emily Hollis and Chris Coles were both triumphant in the finals of Badminton England’s Yehlex Under-18 Circuit competitions. The pair, who are both Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence (AASE) students at the University of Bath, collected doubles titles at the climax to the under-18 circuit season at Milton Keynes. The competitions featured the top-four ranked pairings at the end of the circuit tournaments. Emily Hollis and her partner Amber Gregory beat Natasha...
