Squash Ireland has confirmed the 31 Junior players that will feature at the U19 European Championships in Krakow, the U13/U15 Five Nations in Dublin and the U15/U17 European Championships in Prague.
The U19 Championships in Poland from March 28th to April 5th is the first of the three tournaments, with nine players selected to play in the Individual from March 28th to 31st.
The five BU19 entrants include the 2026 Nationals Champion, Aaron Knox of Celtic. Also involved are the Sutton trio of Christian Dromgoole, Tyler Dromgoole and Conal Jackson, with Fitzwilliam’s Frank O’Flynn also selected.
Shriya Drawid, the Nationals champion from Belfast, is one of the four GU19 entries, a list that also includes the American-based Ella Erickson, Sutton’s Zoe Yeomans and Mount Pleasant’s Riley Slade.
Six of the nine players – Knox, Christian Dromgoole, Jackson, Drawid, Erickson and Yeomans – will stay on in Poland for the team championships from April 2nd to 5th.
Sixteen players will feature for Ireland the following week when Dublin hosts the U13 and U15 Fix Nations against teams from England, France, Scotland and Wales.
The U13 team includes both Junior Nationals champions, Harry Knox of Celtic and Limerick’s Ruby Carroll, the Squash Ireland Junior Player of the Year.
Also featuring are Belfast’s Josh Archer, Sutton’s Eoin O’Brien, Mount Pleasant duo Ridit Thapar and Aurora McDonnell, and Celtic pair Caoimhe English and Daisy Morrissey.
Both Junior Nationals champions, Mount Pleasant’s Michael Lai and Belfast’s Gabby Curran, will feature in the U15 event. They are joined by Mount Pleasant trio Leonid Ivlenkov, Raghad Aboelala and Zoë Nyhan, Celtic’s Jamie Morrissey, and Sutton duo John Quigley and Saibh Darcy.
Lai, Morrissey, Quigley, Curran and Nyhan have also been named on the five-strong U15 mixed team for the European Championships in the Czech Republic from May 7th to May 10th.
The six-strong U17 team at this event includes the Sutton pair of Danny Jones and Lucy Walsh, who won Junior Nationals titles last month in Cork. Also involved will be Celtic duo Adam Power and Nathan Walsh, along with Highfield’s Maggie Jones and Mount Pleasant’s Ashrakat Elmahgoub.
David Noone will coach at the Krakow and Prague tournaments, Michael Conroy at the Dublin and Prague events, and Josh McVeigh in Krakow and Dublin. Breanne Flynn is named as manager for Krakow, with Róisín O’Shea taking over for Dublin and Prague.
