The squad for this year’s European U15s tournament has been announced. Manager Ian Griebenow has chosen players from eight clubs for the tournament which takes place in Trieste, Italy from 15th – 19th July.
The players are:
- Charles Battista
- Ted Conway
- Lucas De Lope Villalba
- Hugo Esperon Beade
- Griffin Franklin
- Kyle Griebenow
- Cameron Griebenow
- Jacob Henry
- Jeremy Kirk
- Riley Manning
- Zebb Marshall
- Wyatt Musil
- Zachary Profit
- Peyton Profit
- Bendeguz Szilagyi
- Sebastian Taylor
- James Theodorakis
- Liam Ust
- Owen Wagner
- Taylor Wormington
- Four players have also been chosen as reserves for the tournament. They are:
- Andreas Stammers
- Curtis Ward
- Daniel Heal
- Liam Sinclair
The coaching staff working alongside Ian Griebenow will be Derick Baylis, Richard Galvin, Gavin Marshall, John Michalowski and Matt Theodorakis as operations.
The eight clubs represented on the squad are:
- Bracknell
- Brighton
- Herts
- Leicester
- London Archers
- London Monarchs
- London Sports
- LYBL
The tournament will comprise two groups of four teams. GB will be playing Italy (15th July), the Czech Republic (16th July) and Hungary (17th July) in pool games. The other group comprises Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands. After the pool games there will be semi-finals for the group winners and runners-up and a final whilst the teams placed third and fourth in each pool play ranking games against each other.
Commenting on the squad, Head Coach Ian Griebenow said:
“We have managed to assemble a really strong team from all the available athletes. I’m very grateful to all the players, their families and our coaches for making themselves available.”
“This is the first time that GB has played in the A Group at U15 level and we believe that we can have a strong competition. Our squad has had a great preparation which started with talent identification in various parts of the UK, weekly training hosted at Coventry as part of the BBF/GB winter programme, various sessions at the 108, and competition preparation at the London Tournament hosted by Croydon. We will be having a training camp in Italy as well. I know the players will be giving it their all with potential qualification for the U15 World Cup on the line.”
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