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Continued from page 16 teams across the UK and even the GB American Football team. Home fixtures this season are against UWE Bullets 2 on Feb 5th; and another cruncher against Bath Spa Bulldogs on Feb 12 at Bath Spa. For details of how to join the team or simply to watch the games visit www.thesubath.com/

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Hockey 1: City of Bath Hockey Club were formed from a merger between Bath & Phillipians Hockey Club’s at the turn on the millennium. The club field 4 Men’s & 2 Ladies’ teams and have a thriving junior section. The men’s 1st XI competes in the West Hockey League Championship North.

Hockey 2: Team Bath Buccaneers Hockey Club are based at The University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY. See www. teambathbuccaneers.co.uk

Netball: The Bath University based Blue & Golds start a new season in February when they play Loughborough Lightening on Sat 11th February at Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham at 11am.

Lacrosse: Bath Lacrosse Club (BLC) was founded in 1983 and is affiliated to the England Lacrosse, the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport, and enters one Men’s squad at senior level into the South of England Men’s Lacrosse Association competitions and one Women’s squad into the South West Women’s Lacrosse Association Competitions.

The club has strong links with Bath University, allowing students from around the world to take up the stick at weekends and joining the various sides put out to do battle with clubs from around the UK. To join the club or for more information visit http:// bathlacrosse.com/wp/

Winter Sports: Bath is not known for its snow although when the white stuff accumulates the steep hills surrounding the spa city are ideal for skiing.

For dry slope skiing there is the Mendip Snoewport Centre at Churchill in North Somerset, the Gloucester ski and Snowborard Centre near Gloucester, and over the bridge in Wales there is the Cardiff Ski and Snowboard Centre.

Ice skating and ice hockey can be found in Bristol at Planet Ice at Cribbs Causeway and Ice Arena in Wales near Cardiff.

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The University of Bath has the UK’s only bobsleigh and skeleton push-start track opened in 2002 and athletes training at the University have won medals at all but one of the Winter Olympic Games staged since then. The bobsleigh squad at Sochi 2014 of John Jackson, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and Joel Fearon won bronze after two Russian teams were disqualified for doping offences while Paula Walker and Rebekah Wilson, won the 2011 World Junior Championship.

In the skeleton, Alex Coomber won bronze at Salt Lake City in 2002 and Shelley Rudman took silver at Torino 2006 and Amy Williams took gold at Vancouver 2010.

Lizzy Yarnold (pictured inset) succeeded Amy as Olympic champion at Sochi 2014 and became the first skeleton athlete to defend her title at PyeongChang 2018, where team-mates Laura Deas and Dom Parsons also won bronze medals.

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