The Junior Sports Programme was pleased to provide sponsorship assistance to 9-year-old Charlie Jubbs.

Charlie has been playing squash now for 4 years and is currently ranked 2nd within the East Midlands Region U11s a great achievement seeing as though he has just turned 9. Last year Charlie was selected for the Regional County Training weekends headed up by England Squash and Racketball.

Charlie is currently ranked within the top 50 and hopefully this will improve when the October Rankings are issued due to some good results as of late.

Charlie trains currently 2-3 times a week at Deans Sport & Leisure and Ruston’s sports club he is coached by members of Win Squash and Racketball Coaching.

Charlie is hoping this year to be selected to attend training as part of the
Aspire Development Programme (ADP).

The aim of the Super-Regional programme last year was to place a greater emphasis on these squads as a stepping stone in to the England programme. To build on the positive feedback of having High Performance Coaches in attendance, the programme has been rebranded to be the ‘Aspire Development Programme’ so as to reiterate its importance for players aspiring to get in to the EDP squads.