Scotland U21 women ready to take on England in Glasgow

Lorna Cruickshank Scotland U21 womenScotland’s U21 women’s team is set to take on England U21 women in three challenging matches over the weekend.

The match times are 2pm, Friday 8 July; 2pm, Saturday 9 July; and 10am, Sunday 10 July, with all matches played at the National Hockey Centre in Glasgow.

The contest against England follows the recent three-match friendlies against Ulster U23 women, with the visitors claiming victory in all three outings. The games against Ulster featured many young players taking the step up from U18 level for the first time, but the team assembled for the games against England features some more experienced players who missed the games against Ulster due to senior international duty.

The game signals a return to Glasgow for the Head Coach of England U21s, Colin Clarke, who is the former Assistant Coach with Scotland’s senior women’s team, and Scotland U18 coach. He now runs the Nottingham Trent University hockey programme.

Scotland U21 Women’s Head Coach Neil Menzies said: “England will undoubtedly bring a strong squad and we can expect to be in for three extremely challenging games. Unfortunately we do have a couple of injury concerns, and we will have to juggle the squad throughout the three days of competition as we seek to manage those injuries.

“This weekend however, we have a significantly strengthened squad with the return of five players who were on senior international duty when we played recently against Ulster – Millie Brown, Charlotte Watson, Amy Costello, Emily Newlands and Katie Robertson. This will make us much more competitive, although it will be the first outing for the group and it might take us some time to settle.

“It is still very early for us in our preparations for the Europeans in July of next year and our focus will be on trying to develop a style of play that is high tempo, and extremely competitive. England are the perfect competition with this in mind, as they like to play a hard running and fast style of hockey, which will force us to stay switched on, or suffer the consequences.”

Scotland U21 women v Ulster Hutch

The Scotland squad for the matches is:

Susan Al Haddad

Erin Gilchrist

Megan Inch

Amy Costello

Ellie Halliday

Frances Lonergan

Kerry-Anne Hastings

Catriona McLellan

Alison Eadie

Katie Robertson

Emily Newlands

Lorna Cruikshank

Mackenzie Bell

Iona Armour

Shona McNab

Charlotte Watson

Millie Brown

Drew Berry

Chloe Hardie

Mairi Drummond

Ellie Hutcheson

 

 

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