Youth Squads

The England Youth teams compete annually in competitions including:

  • The Junior Camrose/Peggy Bayer - against the other 'Home Nations'
  • The Channel Trophy - against France, Belgium and Netherlands
  • The European Championships (even-numbered years)
  • The World Championships (odd-numbered years, if qualifying via the preceding year's European Championships)
  • and other competitions

Recent selections can be seen here. The squads meet regularly throughout the year to practice, and receive expert coaching from the squad leaders and other current leading players, who give their services voluntarily. The following lists contain all the members of the current Youth Squads.

Under 26s

Ben Cadge James Cole Dido Coley Andrew Cope Thibault Crosnier
Isabel Edelsten Rosie Fetherston-Dilke Liam Fegarty Jamie Fegarty Tom Furness
Liz Gahan Benjamin Gardner Thomas Gardner Matthew Lim Lily Kearney
Lucy Norman David Sargent Oscar Selby Theodore Sinclair Zane Soonawalla
Marco Vann Antonia Espinosa Zeman      

Under 26 Women

Venetia Anoyrkatis Charlotte Bedford Dina Bennett Cecilia Birdsall Dido Coley
Harriet Cork Isabel Edelsten Rosie Fetherston-Dilke Liz Gahan Lily Kearney
Imogen La Chapelle Lucy Norman Antonia Espinosa Zeman    

Under 21s

Sam Akayan Alex Andrews Charlotte Bedford Dina Bennett Aleks Birdsall
Cecilia Birdsall Aleks Blicharz Andrew Bradkin Thomas Bradkin Holden Clark
Alex Conlon Harriet Cork Nikhil Dewan Joseph Hedges Noaz Heymann
Amaan Kassey Ethan Kay Tim Kerr Angus Marshall Wilf Marshall
Antoinina Mauve Aman Parekh Jacob Potter Alex Pylypenko Rafi Rosenfield
Seb Sinclair        

Under 16 squad and practice group

Avi Bennett George Conlon Fraser Cooper Jacob Davie Shiloh Duncanson
Jonathon Hill Artem Kolesnik Bertie Mittra Bethany Mittra Sophie Morris
Louis Schroell-Tite Ellick Spiers Patrick Stephenson Annabel Sutton Lottie Sutton
Saish Valanju Sophia Ward      

Squad Leaders

U26: Michael Byrne Coach Stephen Kennedy
U26 Women: 
U21: Stephen Kennedy
U16: Alan Shillitoe Coach Stuart King

To contact any of the squad manager, or for more information on the Youth squads, please write to the Selection Committee secretary Heather Bakhshi, or ring her on 01296 317219, and she will pass on your enquiry.

Sponsors

Thank you to all donors for their fantastic contributions to cover the costs for the Junior teams, a full list of donors can be seen on the Supporting Youth Bridge page.