Irish U21 Men's Squad announced ahead of Europeans
August 14, 2017
Jonny Caren has announced his U21 men’s squad for the Eurohockey Junior Championships in Valencia (August 28th – 3rd September). Ireland sit in Pool B with Austria, Belgium and Germany, with Belgium and Germany finishing second and third respectively in last year’s Junior World Cup in India. Caren has the services of the ever reliable Jamie Carr in goal, recently returned from World League with the senior men’s squad. While Luke Madeley and Keith O’Hare’s drag flicking will surely be an obvious attacking threat, along with the pace and 3D skills of Cork Church of Ireland player Julian Dale.
Speaking about the squad, head coach Caren said “We have been together as a large panel over the past 9 months and this group have worked tirelessly on their preparation. We now find 7 of the panel either involved in the senior European Championships or unfortunately injured but the main focus for this group was to ensure we had an extremely tight knit team that worked well together on and off the pitch. Our main focus for this tournament is to ensure our top flight status to enable Junior World Cup qualification chance next time around”.
| 1 | Jamie Carr | Three Rock Rovers HC |
| 2 | Geoff Cole | Monkstown HC |
| 3 | Matthew Crookshanks | Annadale HC |
| 4 | Julian Dale | Cork Church of Ireland HC |
| 5 | Conor Empey | Three Rock Rovers HC |
| 6 | Ryan Getty | Lisnagarvey HC |
| 7 | Sam Grace | UCC HC |
| 8 | Luke Madeley | Three Rock Rovers HC |
| 9 | Kyle Marshall | Banbridge HC |
| 10 | David Mawhineey | YMCA HC |
| 11 | Peter McKibbin | Lisnagarvey HC |
| 12 | Fred Morris | Almere HC |
| 13 | John Mullins | Clontarf HC |
| 14 | Daniel Nelson | Lisnagarvey HC |
| 15 | Keith O’Hare | Pembroke Wanderers HC |
| 16 | Mark Samuels | Three Rock Rovers HC |
| 17 | Simon Wolfe | Cork Church of Ireland |
| 18 | GK to be confirmed | |
Fixtures:
August 28th 9:00 Ireland vs Germany
August 30th 9:00 Ireland vs Austria
August 31st 11:15 Ireland vs Belgium
Full schedule can be found here http://eurohockey.org/competitions-calendar
Source Hockey Ireland
