Wales Wheelchair head coach Alan Caron has named a 13-player squad to train ahead of the Celtic Cup on Saturday 23rd May in Edinburgh.
The final training session ahead of the one-day three-nation tournament will take place on Saturday 2nd May in Wrexham, and this will allow Caron to reduce the squad to 10 for the tournament.
Wales won the Celtic Cup seven times in a row from 2016-23, but it’s Ireland who have taken the title in the last two years. Now, with at least four changes in this year’s squad, Wales are hoping to regain the trophy.
Caron said: “I’m really looking forward to making sure that we can better any of the scores that we’ve done over the last couple of years.
“It would be fantastic to get that trophy back to Wales, but the competition is getting stronger, which is absolutely fantastic. I doubt we’ll see any one-sided games.”
Following the Celtic Cup, all attention will turn to the World Cup, but Caron said that the 10 he takes to Edinburgh, may not all be in the squad he takes to Wollongong in October.
“All the players know that there is a system here”, he says. “If players are not involved in one major competition, they’re all going back into the pot to start again for another competition.
“So there might be some players here that will go to the Celtic Cup, but there might be some players not on this list that will go to the World Cup.”
Wales squad: Lee Sargent (Cardiff Blue Dragons/Midlands Hurricanes), Jodie Boyd-Ward (Leeds Rhinos), Gary Preece (Midlands Hurricanes), Harry Mitchell-Jones, Lucie Roberts, Jakub Wasieczko (all North Wales Crusaders), Stuart Williams (North Wales Crusaders/Edinburgh Giants), Matthew Turner (North Wales Crusaders/Wigan Warriors), Sid Ramsey (Sheffield Eagles), Jamie Reynolds, Jason Reynolds (both South Wales Jets/Midlands Hurricanes), Brogan Evans, Mark Williams (both South Wales Jets/Wigan Warriors).
