England Netball has reported that the Active People Survey from Sport England has shown that the number of people playing netball on a weekly basis has increased once again. The latest figures show that 151,000 netballers aged 16 and over take to the court every week. The period between January and April 2015 displayed particularly strong
Hundreds of people got the chance to celebrate rugby at the two headline events of the first weekend of the Festival of Rugby 2015. England Women’s Rugby World Cup winners Marlie Packer and Tamara Taylor were on hand to lend their support – Packer returning to her first club for Yeovil RFC’s inaugural 7s tournament
England Women have made three changes for the final round of the Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix in Brive this weekend (20-21 June). England, who finished third in round one in Russia on Sunday, will be led by Susie Appleby as she takes over the coaching reigns for this tournament. Appleby has named Abigail Chamberlain
Team Bath-MCTA Tennis player Anna Smith and doubles partner Jocelyn Rae will be competing at Wimbledon 2015 after being included in the first set of wildcard entries for the Championships. Smith and Rae – Britain’s number-one pairing in the Federation Cup this year – have been handed a wildcard in the ladies’ doubles along with Naomi
England Women’s coach Chris Chapman has named his 17-player team for their first international against France in Tonneins, tonight (6.30pm). The second game will take place at Biganos on Saturday June 20 (6.30pm). England Women’s team: Jodie Cunningham (Thatto Heath) Charlotte Booth (Bradford Thunderbirds) Tara Jones (Thatto Heath) Sarah Dunn (Stanningley) Kayleigh Bulman (Featherstone Rovers) Danielle
Siobhan-Marie O’Connor got the better of World and European champion Katinka Hosszu as she struck gold during another successful evening for University of Bath-based swimmers at the Mare Nostrum Series in Barcelona. Jazz Carlin won her second gold of the meeting, and her fourth of the week, in the 400m freestyle and Chris Walker-Hebborn followed
With the pool stages now complete at the World League Semi-Final in Valencia, the quarter final draw has been finalised, with the International Hockey Federation (FIH) releasing the schedule for Thursday’s all important clashes. Great Britain, the only side to win all their games so far in the competition are drawn against South Africa, who
Two goals from East Grinstead’s Sophie Bray gave Great Britain a hard-fought 2-0 win over China and sent them into the quarter finals of the World League Semi-Final with a 100% record. Bray struck in the first quarter and then again three minutes from time to seal the points against a stubborn Chinese outfit. Great
Adelaide Thunderbirds assistant coach Dan Ryan has been named as the new Manchester Thunder head coach. Ryan heads to the Superleague from the Australian ANZ Championship side and is ‘excited’ to be joining Thunder at the ‘perfect’ time in his career. He takes over from Tracey Neville, who left Thunder to become interim England boss for this
Paul Blake posted the fastest T36 400m time this year as the University of Bath-based athlete claimed victory at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Grosseto, Italy. The London 2012 Paralympic Games double medalist crossed the line in 55.41, beating the previous best time of 56.26 he had set while winning the Grand Prix in Dubai back
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