A good weekend for county junior teams
By Mark Toseland, squash manager
Gloucestershire is well and truly growing from the grassroots regarding squash. East Glos Club is a central cog in the county development programme.
Competitors in last week’s junior inter-county championships
Record numbers of juniors are representing the county with three boys u15 teams playing in last weekend’s Junior Inter-county Championships, stage 1, Southwest region.
Congratulations to everyone who participated and competed on behalf of Gloucestershire, especially those who managed to make it through to the Junior Inter-county Finals in April 2024.
• East Glos players are in bold below
Bu13 – Winners and through to the finals: #1 Thomas Naylor; #2 Oakley Jewkes; #3 Sonny Turkington; #4 Daniel Stevenson; #5 Ben Blumberg; #6 Jude Kells; #7 Jake Kulkarni
Bu15 A team – Winners and through to the finals: #1 Matthew Leung
#2 Seamus Parker; #3 Oliver Jewkes; #4 Henry Surridge; #5 Harry Wallace
Bu15 B team – narrowly missing out on a plate finals spot: #1 Sam Terrell; #2 Archie Larkman; #3 George Blenkinsop; #4 Henry Young; #5 Sam Heys
Bu15 C team: #1 Will O’Connor; #2 Harry Larkman; #3 Edmund Kulkarni; #4 Will Heys; #5 Joshua McIlveen; #6 Thomas Reed
Bu19 team: #1 Daniel Fung; #2 Sacha Cooper; #3 Owen Miessner; #4 Will Franklin
Gu15 team: #1 Kate Kulkarni; #2 Bhumika Senthil Kumar; #3 Dyuthi Kirani
Gu17 team – narrowly missing out on the finals: #1 Isobel Johnson; #2 Rosa Gray; #3 Freya Henry
Mark says, “There were great performances for everyone involved. More specifically, an excellent ethos and support for each other coming together as a team leading up to and on the weekend. We couldn’t be prouder of how you all represented yourselves and the county.”