Manx team for Commonwealth Youth Games announced

The Island will be hosting the games in September and will have athletes in all 7 sports.

The team that will be representing the Isle of Man at the Commonwealth Youth Games has been announced. The Island will be hosting the games in September and will have athletes in all 7 sports. 69 nations will descend on the Island in a few months for the even which will see thousands of competitors and spectators.

Trevor Taubman, the general team manager for the Manx team, says there are some medal hopes. (audio above)

Athletics will see Reagan Dee and Andrea de Bruin compete.

Ben Li, Cameron Avery and Mathew Nicholson will represent the male Badminton team, and the female competitors are Kayleigh Callow and Laura Beggs.

Eddie Rennie will represent the Island team in boxing.

Cycling will see Alexander Haddock, Jonathon Cregeen, Thomas Mazzone and Warwick Sanderson compete.

Gymnastics has two male and three female. Anand Patel, Brandon Garret, Emily Dale-Beeton, Kaitlin Kneen and Rebecca Johnson

Rugby 7s is represented by Andrew Evans, Ben Kelly, Daniel Bonwick, James Olerenshaw, Jordan Hogan, Mark Oldfield, Nathan Pierce, Phil Cringle, Liam Murphy, Conor Stephens, Duncan MacGregor and Alex Sharpe.

And swimming has Grant Halsall, Tom Bielich, Laura Kinley and Charlotte Atkinson.