Jess Shaw leads an eight-strong group of players committed to Team Bath for the 2017 Vitality Netball Superleague season.
England U21 international Shaw, who plays at wing-attack or centre, joins the Blue and Gold from former Superleague franchise Yorkshire Jets.
One of the first players to be selected for the full-time England Netball world-class training programme launched this summer, Shaw has just returned from representing the Roses at U21 level in Australia and will head back to Melbourne next month to represent her country in the Fast5 tournament.
Shaw joins her older sister Rachel and former Superleague player of the year Layla Guscoth whose signing was announced last month in joining the franchise who reached last season's semi-final.
As well as the new recruits Bath have confirmed Eboni Beckford-Chambers, Samantha Cook, Chelsea Lewis, Paige Reed and Mia Ritchie as part of the line-up for the new ten-team Superleague season which gets underway in February.
Head Coach Anna Stembridge said: "I am delighted that we are announcing the backbone of our 2017 squad today, with the remaining places to be announced after our invitation-only trials in a few weeks.
"With changes in the league both in terms of the introduction of new teams and only being able to name 12 players, plus training partners, for 2017, we felt it was critical to not only retain the core of last year's team but to build upon it.
"I am very excited to be working with our fantastic leadership group in Eboni, Mia and Sam again. They truly did a great job last year both in terms of their individual performances on court as well as driving the team ethos and culture off it.
"We are very lucky to have such established players and leaders in them."
Beckford-Chambers captained Team Bath to a third-placed finish in last season's Superleague and is excited about the prospects for 2017.
"We took a lot of positives from the 2016 season and will look to build on them, with the ultimate goal being to win the Superleague title," she said.
"Layla Guscoth and Jess Shaw are two very exciting talents and I'm looking forward to working with them."