Junior High Performance Training Squads announced

The Under-15 and Under-18 High Performance Training Squads have been announced.

The groups have been chosen after the most extensive season that junior Touch in England has ever had. Not only did England enter teams into every category in the Junior Touch Championships, but the expansion of both age groups meant that the England Touch Association was able to organise a standalone Ryvita Touch Nationals event, too.

This selection is the first step towards next summer’s Junior Touch Championships, which are being held in Scotland in August.

Congratulations to all of those players who have been chosen!

UNDER-15s

Dawson, Thea (Bury St Edmunds)

Dickens, Amelia

Gauntlett, Alana (Crewe and Nantwich)

Hill, Zac (Nottingham)

Hofton, Ethan (Manchester Chargers)

Hughes, Connor (Canterbury)

Kang, Macy (Nottingham)

Lawton-Davies, Tom (Reading Bluecoat School)

Loveridge, Ella (Nottingham)

MacDonald, Morgan

MacMenamin, Sophie (Wandsworth)

Mayall, Matthew (Canterbury)

Missin, Harry (Cambridge)

Moy, Iszak (Nottingham)

Murphy, William (Upminster O2 touch)

Nasir, Flori (Canterbury)

Nasir, Iris (Canterbury)

Noble, Logan (Peterborough)

Nye, Eliot (Canterbury)

Oberholzer, Jed (Wandsworth)

Overton, Kiana

Penniceard, Isobel (Wandsworth)

Penniceard, Max (Wandsworth)

Penniceard, Tom (Wandsworth)

Pollard, Thomas (Nottingham)

Povall, Niall (Wigan Warriors)

Reeves, Anna (Percy Park)

Richards, Teigan

Scott, Thomas (Chester Cheetahs)

Simon, Phoebe (Nottingham)

Swanson, Emile

Ticehurst, Daniel (Canterbury)

Trigo de castro, Seb (Cambridge)

Trott, Oscar (Nottingham)

Walker, Olivia (Wandsworth)

Wheeler, Hannah

Wilding, Isaac (Crewe and Nantwich)

UNDER-18s

Anderson, James (Manchester Chargers)

Andrew, Cai (O2 - Maidenhead Mohawks)

Aucken, Freya

Barningham, Richard (Crewe and Nantwich)

Bate, Matthew (Chester Cheetahs)

Beaver, Elin (Winscombe)

Bimson, Adam (Wigan Warriors)

Birkett, Cameron (Wigan Warriors)

Burke, May

Carroll, Sam (Nottingham)

Clark, Keir

Corcoran, Tamzin (Orrell St James)

Ellie, Costello (Wigan Warriors)

Davies, Ruth (Blackadders)

Dawson, Thea (Bury St Edmunds)

Delaney, Charlie (Nomads)

Dickens, Amelia

Dobson, Benjamin (Peterborough)

Gauntlett, Alana (Crewe and Nantwich)

Green, Megan (Cambridge)

Grinter, Ben (Chester Cheetahs)

Grota, Amelia (Peterborough)

Halsall, Sam (Wigan Warriors)

Hardman, Henry (O2 - London Scottish Red Lions)

Hattersley, Jake (Orrell St James)

Heath, William (Northampton COYS)

Henderson, Josh (Thames Valley Vikings)

Hibbert-Jones, Daisy

Hill, Sophie (Lincoln Touch Club)

Hobson, Isobel (Nottingham)

Holmes, Bex (Crewe and Nantwich)

Holmes, Oliver (Crewe and Nantwich)

Hudson, Harry

Hughes, Alexander (Wixams)

Kang, Macy (Nottingham)

Krzyzanski, Bartlomiej

Le Noury, Ben (Nottingham)

Lee, Abbie (Wigan Warriors)

Lewis, Ellie

Lewis, Anya

Lister, Angus (Canterbury)

Lloyd, Sophie (Nottingham)

Loveridge, Max (Nottingham)

Lupton, William (Lincoln Touch Club)

MacDonald, Logan

Maynard, Oliver (Cambridge)

Maynard, Matthew (Cambridge)

McCallion, Orla (Percy Park)

Mclaughlin, Hannah

Michaels, Evan (O2 - Upminster)

Missin, Samuel (Cambridge)

Morris, Jake (Chester Cheetahs)

Murphy, Bradley (O2 - Upminster)

Nasir, Flori (Canterbury)

Norburn, Lucy

Nurse, Ben (Crewe and Nantwich)

Oliver, Emma (Lincoln Touch Club)

Paton, Amelia (Crewe and Nantwich)

Payten, Erin (Canterbury)

Pickup, Eve (Galaxy London)

Pizzey, Edward (Nottingham)

Povall, Aaron (Wigan Warriors)

Povall, Niall (Wigan Warriors)

Ratcliffe, Harry (Halton Storm)

Ratcliffe, Jack (Halton Storm)

Raymond, Amelie (Peterborough)

Begum Richards, Megan

Merve Richards, Jessica

Roe, Xander

Scantlebury, Ellen

Scott, Christian (Thames Valley Vikings)

Shaw, Dominic (Northampton COYS)

Simon, Emily (Nottingham)

Skuse, Lucie

Street, Jack

Szpryngiel, Patryk (Peterborough)

Thesiger, Izzy (Galaxy London)

Ticehurst, Lydia (Canterbury)

Traynor, Jez

Vine, Hennessy

Walker, Catherine (Galaxy London)

Webb, Shannon

Woolfenden, Drew

Worboys, George (Bristol Fijians)