The Women’s Premiership Player of the Year award will this year be made part of the annual Aviva Premiership Rugby Awards, which will take place on Wednesday 18 May at the Hilton, Park Lane, London. Premeirship Rugby – who are currently responsible for the men’s Premiership XVs and 7s competitions – confirmed that three players
Fran Kirby’s last minute goal kept Chelsea’s SSE Women’s FA Cup dream alive, earning them a place in the Wembley Final against London rivals Arsenal. Fran Kirby was today announced as The SSE Women’s FA Cup Player of the Round following her game changing introduction off the bench, that brought Chelsea back from the brink
Judoka Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz, swimmer Anna Hopkin, badminton player Alex Lane and slider David Swift are the latest winners of the Team Bath athlete of the month awards. The awards, which are supported by REVO Eyewear and Ellis & Killpartrick, once again showcased the outstanding calibre of sporting talent at the University of Bath. Judoka Awiti-Alcaraz, a Sport Performance student
Team Bath Netball defender Karla Mostert has capped an impressive debut year in the Blue and Gold by being shortlisted for the Vitality Netball Superleague Player of the Season award. The South African international is nominated alongside Ama Agbeze (Loughborough Lightning), Sara Bayman (Manchester Thunder), Sophia Candappa (Surrey Storm) and Sammy Wallace (Hertfordshire Mavericks) for
The New Year’s Honours list 2016 recognises the contribution of women across a variety of sports this year including inspirational England Captain Steph Houghton and Fara Williams from the world of football. We are delighted to see England and Manchester City’s Steph Houghton awarded an MBE for her services to football alongside England team-mate Fara Williams
At this year’s FA Women’s Football Awards Sunderland dominated the WSL1 whilst Donny Belles, dominated WSL2 awards with each team scooping the team of the year award and player of the year with Courtney Sweetman-Kirk taking it for Belles and Beth Mead for Sunderland. Not surprisingly both players also won the top goalscorers awards. Icing of
George Lavelle, LCB County Age Group Under 15 wicket keeper batsman was named the Cedric Rhodes Player of the Season for boys and Emma Lamb, LCB County Age Group Under 17 top order bat, named the Cedric Rhodes Player of the Season for girls. Both George and Emma received their awards at the annual Lancashire
University of Bath-based athletics coach Malcolm Arnold OBE has been made honorary member of UK Sport’s prestigious Coaching Fellowship, which aims to champion the coaching profession and support the development of world-class coaches in the UK. Arnold, UK Lead Hurdles Coach for British Athletics, has been based at the University of Bath since 1998 and has
Rehaan Rather from Manchester has been named the Coach of the Year at the Chance to Shine Street Programme Awards which took place at the Kia Oval on 19 November. Chance to Shine Street was launched in 2008 to bring cricket to young people in urban areas where there are few green spaces and fewer
Skeleton World Champion Lizzy Yarnold and Piers Gilliver, the world’s number one wheelchair fencer, were among the University of Bath-based athletes honoured at the 2015 Bath Chronicle Sports Award. The winners collected their prizes during a ceremony hosted by television broadcaster John Inverdale at Bath Racecourse, with Team Bath Netball U16s receiving the Junior Team
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