The American Football club was voted Club of the Year 2007 at The University of Bath Blues Awards and recently enjoyed its most successful season, reaching the southern conference semi finals. While many people will never have thought about playing American Football, it is a great opportunity to learn a new and upcoming sport. The University has a dedicated team of coaches and experienced players who are well equipped to teach new players every aspect of the game. It doesn't matter if you don't know anything about the game. Most people who play American Football in the UK start at University, this is one reason why a lot of first time players still make it into the team. It is also very common for rugby players to make the move across to the sport, a lot of who maintain the change and concentrate on American Football. The game is fun, everyone is accepted, everyone gets on with everyone, and the socials are memorable.

The Killer Bees will be competing in the south west conferance of the British University American Football League (BUAFL). The eight regular season games are shown below

2008-2009 Schedule

Saturday November 8 KO 7:00 PM @ Birmingham Lions
Sunday November 23 KO 1:00 PM @ Tarannau Aberystwyth
Sunday December 7 KO 1:00 PM @ Plymouth Blitz
Sunday January 25 1:00 PM Cardiff Cobras @ Bath
Sunday February 1 1:00 PM Oxford Cavaliers @ Bath
Sunday February 15 1:00 PM UWE Bullets @ Bath
Sunday February 22 1:00 PM @ Warwick Wolves
Sunday March 1 1:00 PM Bristol Barracuda @ Bath

After these eight regular season games the top teams in the country are entered into a play-off system; the winners of this are crowned the national champions.

The Killer Bees will be training three times a week this year. The Wednesday and Sunday sessions familiar to existing members will continue. To supplement this, a third night is going to be added. This is likely to be either a Tuesday or a Thursday however the day, time and venue have yet to be confirmed. The Wednesday session takes place on the flood lit grass behind the astro turf and is held between 7 and 10. The Sunday session is held on the astro turf in the STV and takes place between 1 and 4. On game weekends we hold a light “Walk through” session on the Saturday evening before the game on the Sunday.

This year we will be playing all of our home games on campus for the first time in the teams history! We will be playing on one of the pitches on the right hand side of the main road into campus.

As shown above we will be playing in the opening game of the season. This is being held at Birmingham university, a crowd of two to three thousand is expected to be in attendance.

The Bath Jets, our university cheerleading squad, support the team at all of our home games and most of the away games too.

The team is again being sponsored by O'Neills. As well as providing the after match refreshments O'Neills also shows two live NFL Games every Sunday. Most members of the team will head down to town after practice to relax and socialise.