U18 Boys Panel for Lilleshall – February 2020

Speaking on the selection, Head Coach Niall Denham said “The following squad has been selected to take part in a three match test series against England in Lilleshall to get our preparations for the Europeans under way. I am looking forward to getting this group away and starting to formulate ideas for the summer series. Three matches will test the players physically and tactically. We are looking forward to playing these competitive matches.”

The squad is as follows:

U18 Training Squad Announcement

Coach Niall Denham has announced his U18 training squad today, after last weekend’s Interpro’s in Belfast, saying ‘After a very competitive Interpro’s, I am delighted to get started with the a larger than expected training squad to work towards the Europeans in Kazan in July 2020’. The first U18 session will be on Sunday 29^th September. The manager of the U18 boys will be in touch with all players selected.”

The squad is as follows:

Squad Announced for U18 Boys Scottish Series & 6 Nations

Head Coach of Ireland U18 Boys, Niall Denham, is delighted to announce his squad for the upcoming series against Scotland, 30th June/1st July 2019 followed by the Volvo Six Nations Tournament in Eindhoven, Netherlands 14th-20th July. Denham stated “they have been a very good group to work with and again the standard was very high. This made the final team selection a challenge. We look forward to competing in the upcoming two series.”

Ireland v Scotland Series

The squad for these events is as follows:

** GK selection will be based on a late fitness test

Rory Brown – Non Travelling Reserve.

A Boys U17 Development Squads will travel to Mannheimer HC from Friday 7^th June – Monday 10^th June to an Invitational 4 Nations tournament. They will play matches against Germany U16, Holland U16 and Australia U16.

A live stream of the games will be available organised by Mannheimer Hockey Club https://www.youtube.com/mannheimerhockeyclub

A large JAG contingent is set to travel to Lilleshall, England to take on the English JAG teams in the coming weeks. The boys U16’s and U18’s will play 3 matches each against their English counterparts, as will the girls U16’s, while the girls U18’s will play 2 matches.  All matches will take place at Lilleshall National Sports Centre which offers multiple hockey pitches, allowing several matches to take place at once.

Match Details

Boys U18

Ireland 2vs5 England Wednesday 20^th February– 4:30pm

Ireland 4vs1 England Thursday 21^st February – 3:30pm

Ireland 3vs5 England Friday 22^nd February – 1:00pm

U18 Boys:

A busy summer awaits the U18 boys as they prepare to take on Europe’s best teams at the U18 European Championships in Santander this July. To support the team on their fundraising efforts you can click here to donate to their campaign.

Elun Hack, head coach of Ireland’s U18 Boys squad, has today announced his squad of 18 for the upcoming European Championships in Santandar. Ireland sit in Pool B and will face tough opposition int he forms of the Netherlands, France and Belgium.

Speaking about the squad, Hack said “I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the players selected to represent Ireland at the upcoming Europeans in Santander from 15/21 July. The selection was extremely competitive, and on the back of a very successful Training camp in South Africa over Easter we have selected the players that believe will best represent our team principles in the hopes of achieving our objectives. We hope to fine tune several key principles in the coming weeks, and give ourselves the best chance of being as competitive as possible when we play against the top nations next month. Many thanks to all the players, and parents, for their effort throughout the past several months.”

Match Schedule:

15/7/18 10am Ireland 0vs5 Netherlands

16/7/18 5:45pm Ireland 2vs3 France

18/7/18 12pm Ireland 0vs7 Belgium

20/7/18 Ireland 5 vs 0 Poland

21/7/18 Ireland 1 vs 0 England

Click here for full tournament schedule.

Non Travelling reserves

Following a series of training sessions in December and January Irish U18 Coach Elun Hack has selected his squad as they continue to prepare for the U18 Europeans in Santander in July

“It has been incredibly difficult to make this selection, the players have all worked extremely hard and given a fantastic account of themselves. I believe that we have selected a talented and hard working group of players and look forward to seeing how they deal with and respond to the coming months, as we look to finalise the squad for Europeans in the summer. Congratulations to those selected.”

** Josh Greaney invited to attend as could not attend the final two training sessions due to injury.

U18 Irish Coach Elun Hack, following the recent Interpros and All Ireland Schools, has named a large group for trials the first of which will take place on Sunday November 19^th at a venue to be confirmed.

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Coach Gareth Borland has named the Irish Under 18 squad along with 2 reserves who will take part in this summers 6 Nations tournament hosted in Nottingham from July 17th – 23rd.

Having trained with a large development panel all the players have made significant improvements to their game and physical condition over the last 9 months.

There were some difficult decisions to make in the final selection but we feel we have a great group of talented, highly versatile players.

Five of the squad are able to draw on their experiences from last years Europeans in Cork, while six others will be available for selection for next years Europeans in Santander.

We are grateful to Three Rock Rovers, Banbridge and Lisnagarvey for the use of their facilities while also providing us with opposition, along with Monkstown, in practise games.

As a squad we are looking forward to the upcoming tournament which will see us play against

Spain – July 17th

Netherlands – July 18th

Germany – July 20th

Belgium – July 22nd

England – July 23rd

6 Nations Invitational Tournament Schedule

Non-Travelling Reserves: Mark Barlow & Harry Craig