University of Bath graduate Jamie Barrow is celebrating a British snowboard record after clocking a speed of 94.2 mph at Verbier in Switzerland. The Sports Performance graduate Barrow recorded 88.7 mph on his first run and followed that with the record of 94.2 mph on his second. The conditions on the 880m long Mont Fort speed track were ideal for the speed run, with a temperature of 12°C, next to no wind and perfect visibility....
Team Bath were made to fight every step of the way to keep their winning Superleague streak intact tonight at the University of Bath Sports Training Village. After losing the opening quarter 9-13, they pulled back to 23-23 at half-time before grinding out the victory at 52-38. “It was good that questions were asked of us today”, said coach Jess Thirlby after the encounter. “That’s the way it should be in the top four and...
The Womens 1st team travelled to Leeds to play the final of the BUCS Championship against Exeter. The team consisting of Steph Cornish, Alex Walker, Natasha Starling and Barbara Pietrkiewicz had already retained the Premier League South title earlier in the year. The match was highly competitive throughout and the team showed great desire in winning some close matches on their way to winning the title for a second successive year. Captain Alex Walker said...
University of Bath student Frazier Christie faces another big step at the weekend en route to his goal of rowing at this year’s World Under-23 Championships. The Economics student competes in the Great Britain Senior and Under-23 Trials at Caversham. The top under-23s will be asked to stay at Caversham next week to take part in seat racing trials. Christie needs to make sure he reaches the seat-racing phase to have a chance of securing...
Team Bath Buccaneers forward Tim Davenport has been named England Hockey League Conference West Player of the Season. Davenport netted 22 goals in Buccs’ Conference West campaign this season. The Coach Education and Sports Development graduate was one of three Buccaneers players named in England Hockey’s All-Stars Conference West team. Davenport was was joined by captain George Farrant, a University of Sports Performance student and Trendell Sports Scholar, and by midfielder Sam Hatherley, also a...
Team Bath buried memories of their only Superleague defeat this season by thrashing Surrey Storm 65-39 at the University of Bath tonight (Monday). Team Bath topped Phase One of the Superleague with Surrey Storm finishing second. But with Storm winning the Phase One fixture between the two teams 61-46, the signs suggested we were in store for a close encounter at the Sports Training Village. But starting with a seven featuring five players just back...
The countdown to the country’s biggest multi-sport disability event of the year continued with the formal signing of contracts for the University of Bath to host the Special Olympics GB 2013 National Summer Games. The Games run from 28 August through to 1 September and will see more than 1700 athletes with intellectual disabilities from across Great Britain taking part in a programme featuring 12 different sports. The majority of sports will be held at...
England captain Pamela Cookey said she can’t wait to face Surrey Storm in Team Bath’s first game in netball’s Superleague Showdown on Monday night (15 April). Storm are the only side to beat Team Bath in the Superleague this season, but Team Bath went on to finish at the top the table at the end of Phase One. The two teams cross swords again in a televised fixture at the University of Bath Sports Training...
University of Bath student Samantha Murray produced a fine all-round performance to collect her first British Championships title on Saturday. The French and Politics student already has an Olympic silver medal and a World Championships bronze, but hadn’t yet won a British crown until her victory in Solihull. Murray is now focussing on studying for her finals for her French and Politics degree at the University of Bath later this month. “I had a fantastic...
Four Team Bath judo players have been selected for the British team to compete at this month’s European Championships. It means Team Bath judo players make up a quarter of the 16-strong GB team in action in Hungary. The British team includes the brother and sister pair of Ben and Megan Fletcher. Ben goes in the under-100kg competition with Megan contesting the women’s under-70kg class. University of Bath student Jan Gosiewski goes in the under-73kg...
