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 (odd-numbered years)
- The World Championships (even-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 26’s
Sam Anoyrkatis | Charles Bucknell | Jonathan Clark | Joe Clark | William Clennell |
Athena Chow | Dominic Cooke | Dominik Dasko | AJ Fong | David Fryer |
Nathan Galpin | Sam Goymer | Aaron Hutton | Emil Kaijanen | Niamh O'Keeffe |
Daniel Kelsall | Filippos Kritsalis | Jack Lawrence | Edmund Lea | Nicholas Lee |
Yuhao Li | Bethany Madden | Harry Madden | Ben Norton | Kripa Panchagnula |
Laurentiu Ploscaru | Gabija Poskaite | Oliver Powell | Siyu Ren | Senthur Shanmugarasa |
Alex Skelton | Adam Tobias | Wan-Hew Tran | Kavinthan Vickneswaran | Scott Wang |
Ewa Wieczorek | Daniel Winter |
Under 21’s
Bjorn Ahl | Theo Anoyrkatis | Jasmine Bakhshi | Frederick Beneat | James Cater |
Woody Cohen | Dido Coley | Andrew Cope | Jamie Fegarty | Liam Fegarty |
Liz Gahan | Benjamin Gardner | Thomas Gardner | Patrick Gaudart | Theo Gillis |
Kim Hudson | Megan Jones | Lily Kearney | Imogen La Chapelle | Ben Lewis |
Alex Pemberton | Jack Ronayne | Henry Rose | Liam Sanderson | Oscar Selby |
Theodore Sinclair | Zane Soonawalla | Sam Wakefield | ||
Under 16's
Venetia Anoyrkatis | William Battersby | Charlotte Bedford | Aleksander Birdsall | Cecilia Birdsall |
Andrew Bradkin | Thomas Bradkin | Benjamin Cadge | Harriet Cork | Tom Furness |
Millie Hallam | Verity Hallam | Phedra Kingston | Antoinina Mauve | Lucy Norman |
Aman Parekh | Jacob Potter | David Edward Sargent | Raphaela Sinclair | Sebastien Sinclair |
Marco Vann | Jay Vyas | Rufus Barnett | Zach Saurymper |
Squad Leaders
U26: Nick Sandqvist
U26 Women: Sally Brock
U21: Michael Byrne
U16: Giorgio Provenza, assisted by Alan Shillitoe
To contact any of the squad manager, or for more information on the Youth squads, please write to the Selection Committee secretary Charlie Bucknell, or ring him on 01296 317203, and he will pass on your enquiry.
Sponsors
Thank you to the following sponsor, donors, and supporters, for their contribution and assistance to the squad's involvement in the 2018 World Youth Team Championships in China:
- Touchlight - for their donation of £10,000 to fund travel and training for the U26 Women’s team.
- Tetragon - for their donation to support the participation of the U16 team
- No Fear Bridge - for their financial donation, and for their support of the U16s through the donation of free membership to their website to all the squad and coaches.
- English Bridge Education & Development
General donations
- Worshipful Company of Playing Card Makers
- Berks & Bucks CBA; Devon CBA; Dorset CBA; Essex CBA; Gloucestershire CBA; Lincolnshire CBA; London Metropolitan BA; Middlesex CBA; Oxfordshire CBA; Somerset CBA; Staffs & Shrops CBA; Suffolk CBA; Sussex CCBA; Warwickshire CBA
- Allendale BC; Austenwood BC; Aylesbury Aces BC; Chobham BC; Clare BC; Colchester BC; Coventry Bridge League; Felsted BC; Folkestone Duplicate BC; Oxford BC; Richmond BC; Slough BC; Stansfield BC; Stratford-upon-Avon BC; Summertown BC; Wearside BC; West Midlands BC; Weymouth BC; Wimbledon BC
- Plus numerous individual donors