Great Britain Under-20 coach Doug Leichner has named his initial squad for this summer’s European Championships in Greece with four of the line-up which gained promotion to Division A in 2013 making a return.
The 16-strong group, which includes just one non-English player, sees a call-up for highly-rated guard Luke Nelson fresh from his freshman season at UC Irvine as well as his team-mate there Alex Young.
Leichner’s side open the group stages against Latvia on July 8 with their first round pool also including Hungary, Greece and Lithuania.
“Nobody will have bigger expectations of what we can do as a group, than ourselves,” the head coach said. “We have good talent and depth and in their different ways, they’ve all experienced a measure of success.–The challenge we offer to them is to lay down the groundwork – putting in the hard work, team bonding, creating a winning culture. After all, we have to unify this group in a small preparation camp.  We look forward to what Division A has in store and it’s going to be exciting.â€Â
They will hold training camp later this month at the University of Essex.
Roster
Kavell Bigby Williams, 6â€
10, forward, Lewisham Thunder ,
Rowell Graham,        6â€
5, forward, Leeds Carnegie ,
Tyrell Isaacs,             5â€
11, guard, London GP,
Ben Lawson,              7â€
0, forward, Western Kentucky,
Joseph Lockwood,     6â€
8 , forward, Barking Abbey,
Grant Mackay,           6â€
4, forward, St Anselmâ€
s College NH,
Luke Mascall Wright, 6â€
3 guard Ipswich,
Joshua McSwiggan,  6â€
7 guard/forward, Leicester Riders,
Benjamin Mead,       6â€
9, forward, Franklin Pierce,
Connor Murtagh,      6â€
5, guard, Manchester Magic,
Luke Nelson,             6â€
3, guard, UC Irvine, California,
Tamas Okros,            6â€
7 , forward, Bristol Flyers,
Dwayne Orija,           6â€
3, guard, Medway Park,
Elliot Sentence,         6â€
5 guard, Leicester Warriors,
Morayo Soluade,       6â€
5 , forward, Unicaja Malaga,
Jordan Spencer,        6â€
2, guard, Augustana College SD,
Lucas Stivrins,           6â€
11, centre University of Nevada,
Alex Young,               6â€
1, guard, UC Irvine, California
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