Daniella Lloyd

Shortman, who represented Team GB in the women’s duet event this summer, is joined among the scholars by fellow artistic swimmer Daniella Lloyd. Swimmer Cam Brooker, rower Phoebe Hayden, cricketer Gemma Lane, fencer Louise Sadler, judoka Josh Shipp and sprinter Aleeya Sibbons are the other high-performing student-athletes who have received a cash award to help them meet the demands of training, competing and studying at an elite level.

Scholarships are supported by alumni, friends and partners of the University, who are passionate about giving talented young people the opportunity to benefit from Bath’s sporting and academic environment. Previous recipients include Tokyo Olympic Champions Joe Choong (modern pentathlon) and Tom Dean, Anna Hopkin and Calum Jarvis (swimming).

Shortman began an International Management and Modern Languages (French) degree course a month after placing 14^th overall at the Tokyo Olympics with fellow City of Bristol Artistic Swimming Club star Izzy Thorpe. She will be supported by a Bill Whiteley Sporting Scholarship as she targets a return to Japan in May 2022 for the FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, where Shortman is hoping for a top-ten finish in the solo event.

Lloyd, who was an Olympic reserve to Shortman and Thorpe during the build-up to Tokyo, is no stranger to the University of Bath having coached youngsters on Team Bath Synchro Club summer camps at the Sports Training Village (STV). She is studying Sports Performance and has received a Goldsmith Scholarship as she also trains towards the World Championships.

Mechanical Engineering student Brooker, who will be supported by an Ivor Powell Scholarship, is part of the hugely-successful British Swimming National Centre Bath squad based at the STV and has been named on the 2021-22 Podium Potential programme. Coached by David McNulty, he reached both the 200m individual medley and 200m backstroke finals at this year’s Olympic Trials, and won seven medals in total at the recent BUCS and Swim England Winter National Short-Course championships.

Architecture fresher Sibbons is looking to build on a 2021 athletics campaign that saw her set a new personal best to reach the 100m semi-finals at the European U20 Championships in Estonia.

Gemma Lane

The Newham & Essex Beagles sprinter receives a Santander Scholarship, as does Health & Exercise Science student Hayden who is part of the British Rowing World-Class Start talent development programme at the University of Bath. She has previously represented GB as a junior in the Coupe de la Jeunesse and is trialling this winter with the aim of wearing the British vest again in 2022 at either the World or European U23 Championships.

The third Santander Scholarship recipient is first-year Sports Performance student Shipp, who made his senior GB judo debut at the Sarajevo European Open in September. The Bradley Stoke Judo Club competitor has previously won -60kg bronze in the National Championships, as well as titles in Denmark and Scotland.

Biomedical Sciences student Lane is a bowler for the Southern Vipers team which represents the South of England in national women’s cricket competition. Having also played for Hampshire Women and competed at the 2021 School Games, the Lewis Scholar is hoping to sign up for a team in The Hundred in 2022.

Trendell Scholar Sadler, who is in the second year of a Modern Languages (French and German) degree course, first took up fencing as a modern pentathlete and has gone from strength to strength since specialising in the sport. Welsh Senior Champion in 2020 and a U23 British Championships bronze-medallist, Sadler is a member of the senior GB squad and competed at last month’s World Cup in Estonia. Her 2022 goals are selection to represent Wales at the Senior Commonwealth Championships and GB at the World University Games.

Applications are now open for 2022-23 sporting scholarships, both for current and prospective University of Bath student-athletes. Visit teambath.com/scholarships for more information.

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The new intake of sporting scholars for 2020-21, who compete across nine different sports and study across 11 diverse courses, each receive a cash award that runs over the period of their course and helps them meet the demands of training, competing and studying at a high level.

Scholarships are supported by alumni, friends and partners of the University, who are passionate about giving talented young people the opportunity to benefit from Bath’s sporting and academic environment. Previous recipients include Olympic medallists Michael Jamieson (swimming), Samantha Murray (modern pentathlon) and Dominic Parsons (skeleton).

Among this year’s intake are two freshers who have already made their full top-flight debuts for Bath Rugby, as well as represent England U18s. Natural Sciences student Ethan Staddon – a Santander Scholar – made history last weekend when he became Bath’s youngest-ever Premiership Rugby debutant, aged 18, while exciting fly-half Orlando Bailey made his first senior start in September. He is studying International Development with Economics and supported by a Matrix Scholarship.

Receiving an Ivor Powell Scholarship this year, honouring the legendary Team Bath football coach, is Sports Performance student Vicki McCabe, who is a member of the Great Britain Hockey Women’s Elite Development Programme working towards the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games. She already has 67 international caps across various age groups having first represented her country aged 14.

Another talented hockey player, Computer Science & Mathematics fresher Dylan Holland, has been awarded a Bill Whiteley Scholarship. He has represented England at U16 and U18 level, scoring a winner against Germany with just 30 seconds left on the clock for the latter.

Hannah Passmore, who has been named in the Team Bath Netball Superleague squad for a third successive year, will benefit from a Buchan Jones Scholarship after starting a Criminology degree. Fellow netballer Steph Marsden, a Sports Management & Coaching student who represented England U21s at the Indoor Netball World Cup in South Africa last year, has been awarded a Santander Scholarship.

Three swimmers are among this year’s scholars. William Ryley, who has started a Management Masters course after graduating in Chemistry this summer, has been awarded a Goldsmith Scholarship as he pursues his ambition of representing GB at the 2021 World University Games and Wales at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

He is also targeting a podium place at the 2021 British Championships and Tokyo Olympic Trials, as is Sports Performance student Luke Turley. Like Ryley, he is no stranger to representing the Blue & Gold at BUCS competition and has won several medals for Bath in recent years. Turley is the recipient of a Santander Scholarship, as is Economics & Mathematics fresher Leah Crisp – a double national freestyle champion who has joined the elite British Swimming National Centre Bath squad this summer.

Another Santander Scholar at home in the London 2012 Legacy Pool is Sports Performance fresher Tom Hunt, a British Swimming Water Polo Male Athlete of the Year 2019 nominee who has represented Great Britain and England at U19 level and played semi-professionally in Germany. He is hoping to compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Fellow Sports Performance first-year student Ellie Burgess, one of the country’s most promising sprint canoeists, has been awarded a Thompson Education Trust Scholarship. The U23 National Championships K2 500m bronze-medallist is targeting selection for the European and World Championships in 2021.

Receiving scholarship support this year as they combine modern pentathlon and education at the home of Pentathlon GB’s National Training Centre are aspiring Olympians Olivia Green and Emma Whitaker. Sports Performance student Whitaker, who has been awarded a Santander Scholarship, has previously won team bronze at the European U19 Championships and is aiming to make the finals at the World and European Junior Championships in 2021.

Alumni Fund Scholar Green, who studies Sport & Exercise Science, has achieved top-five finishes in World and European Junior Championships and is keen to make her individual Senior World Cup debut in 2021 having placed fifth in her first senior relay.

Also receiving an Alumni Fund Scholarship is tennis ace Ben Jones, a Chemistry graduate who is now taking a Management Masters. Among his many highlights so far during his time at Bath are successive silver medals with GB at the BNP Master’U international team tournament in France.

Completing this year’s intake of new scholars are two track-and-field athletes. Mathematical Sciences student Remi Adebiyi, a former U17 and U20 English 1,500m champion who reached the 3,000m steeplechase final for GB at the 2019 European U20 Championships, has received a Trendell Scholarship.

Isobel Ives, a Civil Engineering Masters student and Santander Scholar, has won a host of 800m medals for Bath in indoor and outdoor BUCS competition during the past four years, as well as both the England Athletics Senior and U23 Championships plus the Loughborough International while representing the British Universities team. She is hoping to cap her final year of study with more BUCS medals and a new 800m PB in 2021.

Applications for the 2021-22 academic year are now being taken from current and prospective University of Bath students. Visit www.teambath.com/scholarships to find out more.

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The talented 2019-20 group of 15 student-athletes, who compete across 13 different sports, join 27 existing scholars who each receive a cash award that runs over the period of their course and helps them meet the demands of training, competing and studying at a high level.

Scholarships are supported by alumni, friends and partners of the University, who are passionate about giving talented young people the opportunity to benefit from Bath’s sporting and academic environment.

Among the new grants to be awarded this year is the Lewis Scholarship provided by University alumnus Iestyn Lewis, CEO of Team Bath partners Rengen Developments. The recipient is Welsh sprint hurdler Tomos Slade (Sports Performance), who is targeting qualification for next summer’s World U20 Championships in Kenya.

There is also a new Matrix Scholarship, supported by Matrix Fitness who provide equipment to the Team Bath Gym & Fitness Centre, and it has been awarded to Georgia Martin (Sports Performance) who is part of the successful British Rowing World-Class Start Programme at the University.

Fellow rower Becky Wilde (Sport & Social Science) is among six students to receive a Santander Scholarship. Oliver Murray (Electronic & Electrical Engineering) won men’s relay gold for GB at this summer’s Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Bath, while Leon Chevalier (Chemical Engineering) is the reigning BUCS triathlon champion.

Three freshers complete the Santander scholars for 2019-20 – Welsh hockey international Cari Davies (Business Administration), badminton player William Jones (Sports Performance) and Swedish international event rider Sofia Sjoborg (Integrated Mechanical & Electrical Engineering).

Another first-year engineering student, pentathlete Toby Price (Mechanical Engineering), has been awarded a Bill Whiteley Scholarship and swimmer William Ryley (Chemistry) receives a Goldsmith Scholarship – he is hoping to put himself in the mix for Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification this season.

The Ivor Powell Scholarship – celebrating the legendary football coach who served the University of Bath until the age of 95 – goes to Bath Rugby Academy player George Worboys (Sports Performance), while Kirsty Way (Sport & Exercise Science) has been given the perfect boost ahead of next month’s World Trampolining Championships in Tokyo by receiving a King Scholarship.

This year’s Thompson Education Trust support has gone to Milly Wordley (Sport Management & Coaching), a GB water polo international, and Adam Hames (Sports Performance), who is representing British Bobsleigh on the North American Circuit this season having become the youngest British brakeman ever to make his World Cup debut earlier this year.

Lacrosse player William Hamernick (Management) has received an American Fund Scholarship, which supports postgraduate student-athletes from the United States.

The University of Bath was the first UK institution to offer scholarships, back in 1976, and among the student-athletes to have benefited from the support are Olympic medallists Michael Jamieson (swimming), Samantha Murray (modern pentathlon) and Dom Parsons (skeleton). Aspiring Tokyo 2020 Olympians Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz (judo), Joe Choong (modern pentathlon), Chari Hawkins (athletics) and Anna Hopkin (swimming) are among recent beneficiaries.

Current scholars include Team Bath and England Netball players Imogen Allison and Sophie Drakeford-Lewis, England Rugby U20 internationals Cara Clarke and Beck Cutting, GB Hockey U21 player Tim Nurse and Olympic swimming hopeful Tom Dean.

University of Bath Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley, a former Commonwealth badminton champion, said: “As someone who combined study and sport I know just how valuable this kind of support can be, so I would like to thank the alumni and friends of the University whose generous backing continues to make the scholarships possible.

“The range of sports and academic courses represented by our new scholars illustrates both the depth of talent and the educational opportunities available here at the University of Bath.”

Applications are already open to current and prospective University of Bath students for the 2020-21 scholarships. Visit www.teambath.com/scholarships for more information.

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This year’s cohort includes an England Rugby Sevens player, an international heptathlete from the United States, three Team Bath Netball stars, a British swimming champion and emerging talents in hockey, modern pentathlon, rowing, tennis and windsurfing.

The talented group, who compete across nine different sports, will each receive a cash award that runs over the period of their course and helps them meet the demands of training, competing and studying at a high level.

Scholarships are supported by alumni and friends of the University, who are passionate about giving talented young people the opportunity to benefit from Bath’s sporting and academic environment.

Jordan Ainslie was part of the professional England Rugby Sevens squad before starting an International Development with Economics degree in September. He also represented Bath Rugby at this year’s Singha Premiership Rugby 7s and will be supported by a Trendell Sports Scholarship, as will fellow rugby player Beck Cutting (Sport & Social Sciences) who has played for England at U16, U17 and U18 level and made his senior debut for Premiership club Worcester Warriors last month.

Also receiving Trendell Scholarships are Myles Pillage (Biochemisty), who represented Pentathlon GB at both the Senior and Junior World Championships this year, and Olivia Caesar (Sport & Exercise Science), a 200m and 400m runner who has already won multiple BUCS [British Universities & Colleges Sport] titles for the University.

Both Sophie Drakeford-Lewis (Integrated Mechanical & Electrical Engineering) and Tash Pavelin (Natural Sciences) have been named in the Team Bath Netball Superleague squad for 2018. Drakeford-Lewis, who won her first senior England caps this year, is receiving a Whiteley Sports Scholarship while Pavelin is supported by Santander, as is Chartie Curtis (Economics) who is a training partner with the Superleague squad.

This year’s King Sporting Scholar is Tim Nurse (Sports Performance) – he won silver on his Great Britain Hockey U21 debut at this year’s Sultan of Johor Cup in Malaysia and has been named in the GB Men’s Elite Development Programme (EDP) for players with Olympic potential.

United States heptathlete Chari Hawkins, a five-time All-American track and field athlete who has represented her country at the World University Games, has moved to Bath to combine training towards the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with studying for an MA in International Education & Globalisation.

She has been awarded a Santander Scholarship along with GB Rowing Team Start Bath member Laura Macro (Sport & Exercise Science), who won gold at this year’s Henley Women’s Regatta; Lauren Williams (Management with Marketing), a Welsh international 400m and 400m hurdles athlete; and Sarah Jackson (Sports Performance), a British Freestyle Windsurfing Champion who competes on the world tour.

Completing the list of new Santander Sporting Scholars is Jacob Greenow (Natural Sciences), who represented GB at this year’s European Junior Swimming Championships. He is one of four swimmers to receive a scholarship in 2017-18, with Anna Hopkin (Sport & Exercise Science) – the reigning British and English 50m freestyle champion – receiving support from the Thompson Education Trust while Tom Derbyshire (Sport & Exercise Science) and Joe Hulme (Chemistry) are both provided with a British Swimming National Training Centre Scholarship.

Completing this year’s intake of scholars is tennis player Ben Jones (Chemistry), who will be supported by Buchan Jones.

The University of Bath – named the 2018 Sports University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide – was the first British university to award scholarships in 1976 and 45 student-athletes in total are currently receiving financial and lifestyle support as they manage their dual careers.

University of Bath Director of Sport Stephen Baddeley, a former Commonwealth badminton champion, said: “The depth of talent among our student-athletes never ceases to amaze me and it is with great pride that we are able to support so many dedicated young people on their academic and sporting journeys.

“As someone who combined study and sport as an athlete, I know just how valuable this kind of support can be so I would like to thank the alumni and friends of the University whose generous backing continues to make the scholarships possible.”

Applications are already open for the 2018-19 scholarships to both current student-athletes at the University of Bath and those hoping to start their studies in September. For more information, visit www.teambath.com/athlete-zone/scholarships.

Report courtesy of the Team Bath Press Office at Matchtight Ltd.