England Box Lacrosse announce the men’s training squad, leading up to E-Box 2026 and the European Championships 2026.
Goalkeeper Noah Arnison Jacob Brindle Eric Epps Toby Hayes
Defence William Allsop George Bascom Tom Bracegirdle Archie Carr George Dury Harry Edwards Jack Ferdinand Dave Groves Tom Hallam Albert Lee-Whitehead Kyle MacQueen Billy Rawlins Jack Robinson Tom Roche Tom Roper Jamie Sutton Matthew Tatton Ming Trinh Alex Tyldesley-Worster Kristien Warren Tom Whitehead
Offence (Dominant left hand) Ollie Allsop Ben Buchanan Silas Burke Sebastian Di Siena Ryan Martin Jack O’Mahoney Will Prescott Dan Watson
Offence (Dominant right hand) Nathan Edwards Russell Farrer Jude Krommenhoek Elliot Leonard James Mcilhagger Ben Page-Laycock Jamie Powell Finn Ward
The squad for the E-Box 2026 tournament in April will be announced after the 1st March squad training session. The squad for the European Championships 2026 will be announced after E-Box.
See the dates and venues for training sessions and squad selection trials for both the England Box men’s and women’s programmes leading up to the 2026 European Lacrosse Box Championships in Czechia.
The North men retained the trophy, which they have now won three years running, after the three game series this past weekend in Oxford. In the parallel women’s competition, with players split across two teams, regardless of geography, the Washington Allstars beat the Boxford Blaze 13-9 over two games. The North also won the men’s B two game series, but by only a single goal, 11-10.
The annual North v South series will this year be run over the weekend of 5/6th July, out of the Oxford Academy 3G Dome. All games will be live streamed on YouTube via LacrosseLiveUK.
Squad Coaches
The coaches for each squad will be announced soon.
Women: Conor Dockery, Eliot Pugh and Millie Geddes
It was in at the deep end for the 16 rookies gaining their first England Box Lacrosse caps with the opening game against the E-Box hosts, Czechia. For George Medd and 16 year old, Finn Ward, it was their first full game of box lacrosse!
Understandable anxiety, coupled with the intensity any Czech team brings the floor, made this an uncomfortable watch. There is a saying you learn more from defeats than victories. In this game all the rookies found out how fast international box lacrosse is played, the commitment needed to win loose balls and transition the ball up the floor, and how defensive play in the box game is at a whole different level to field lacrosse. It was also very warm, with the game played at 4pm. Goalie Ben Stowe needed litres of cold water poured over him between quarters.
The big plus was scoring 10 goals, with 7 of the rookies in the offensive unit and 8 different scorers including first England goals from Nathan Edwards, Ryan Martin, Oscar McCarthy and Jack O’Mahoney.
The final score does not reflect how close this game could have been. England pulled the score back to 10:7 early in the 4th quarter only to see Germany bang in five more goals. We paid the price for some defensive lapses and unnecessary penalties as players started to fatigue.
However the improvement from the Czechia game was significant. The practice sessions every morning were essential for this improvement, making the most of the time with head coach Walt Christianson. Now can we improve again in our final game?
…and we did improve with a very pleasing win over the Tokyo team, who form the bulk of players from the Japan national team. Every element of our play was visibly better and you would struggle to spot the rookie players from those with many years box experience.
The Tokyo team are quality, they only lost by one goal to another Czechia team on Friday evening. They had picked up a few injuries earlier in the weekend so some local Czech players were helping them out, which was fine. England always had the lead but any lapses, like those that occurred against Germany and Czechia, were punished.
Throughout the course of the three games, the rookies transformed themselves into international box players. We were delighted that every player from the offensive group got on the score sheet. James McIlhagger scored his first of four goals to open the scoring. Seb Di Siena scored our second goal. In the second half, the last (and youngest) offensive rookie Finn Ward scored three goals in 7 minutes. Goalie Ben Stowe finished with this best performance, with a 77% save percentage.
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