England name U-16 and U-18 squads for 2010/2011

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Internationals and tournament winners are among 16 players named in the England Under 18 Squad for 2010/11.
They include English boy champion Callum Shinkwin, Under-16 champion Toby Tree and Nathan Kimsey, impressive winner of the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters.
The full England Under-18 squad is:
Oliver Carr (Heswall, Cheshire), Harry Casey (Enfield, Middlesex), Seb Crookall-Nixon (Workington, Cumbria), Sam Edwards (Bigbury, Devon), Matthew Fitzpatrick (Hallamshire, Yorkshire), Curtis Griffiths (Wentworth, Surrey), Patrick Kelly (Boston West, Lincolnshire), Nathan Kimsey (Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire), Nick Newbold (Kedleston Park, Derbyshire), James Newton (Prestbury, Cheshire), Max Orrin (North Foreland, Kent), Thomas Rowland (Prudhoe, Northumberland), Callum Shinkwin (Moor Park, Hertfordshire), James Simpson (Whickham, Durham), Toby Tree (Worthing, Sussex) and Colin Walsh (Hayling, Hampshire).
Shinkwin was a clear winner of the Carris Trophy at Woodhall Spa, subsequently made his England debut in the boys' home internationals and helped Hertfordshire to the English boys' county championship.

Tree was England Under-14 champion in 2008 before winning the Under-16 title this year. He also debuted in the boys' home internationals, having been an Under-16 cap and a former winner of the Douglas Johns Trophy.

Kimsey was another to make his debut in the boys' home internationals after winning the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters in a three-way play-off. He also finished runner-up in the Lincolnshire county championship.

Among the rest of a highly talented Under-18 squad is Sebastian Crookall-Nixon, the English Under-16 champion in 2008 and 2009, and another England-boy cap, Matthew Fitzpatrick, the North of England Under-16 Champion and an Under-16 cap, and Nick Newbold, an England debutant in the European boys' team championships this year and a member of the boys' home internationals team.

Sam Edwards, who reached the quarter-finals of the English men's amateur championship this year, is also included as is Max Orrin, runner-up to Tree in the English Under-16 championship and another Under-16 international.

The England Under 16 Squad, also announced, includes Nick Ward, the current Hertfordshire County Champion at the age of 15, and Haydn McCullen, who has enjoyed high finishes in the past two English Under 14 Championships for the Reid Trophy.

The complete England Under-16 Squad is:
Robert Burlison (Oxley Park, Staffordshire), Harry Ellis (Meon Valley, Hampshire), Haydn McCullen (Didsbury, Cheshire), Pavan Sagoo (Ealing, Middlesex), Jake Spearpoint (Sene Valley, Kent) and Nick Ward (Redbourn, Hertfordshire).
Burlison is a former English Schools Under 16 Champion and schools international, Ellis is the Hampshire Junior Champion and has just been capped at Under 16 level against Scotland, while Sagoo has twice been the Middlesex Under 13 and Under 14 Champion.
Further players will be invited to join the six squad members at various stages, throughout the busy programme of coaching sessions and training matches.