ELEVEN North Midlands players have been named in a 28-strong Midlands Under 18 squad for a training session at Bromsgrove School on Sunday, December 14.

They secured their places in the reduced squad after impressing in the Midlands Assessment Day at Loughborough GS last month.

The squad will be further reduced by three after the Bromsgrove session to give the Midlands their final squad for the Divisional Festival at Broadstreet RFC near Coventry from January 2 to 4.

The North Midlands players invited to Bromsgrove training day are: hooker Matt Cox (Bromsgrove School and Worcester), lock Nile Dacres (Worcester Sixth Form College and Five Ways OE), scrum-half Joel Dudley (Bromsgrove School and Worcester), tighthead prop Chris Fox (Bromsgrove School), number eight Matt Kvesic (Worcester Sixth Form College and Worcester), loosehead props Mark Padgett (Ellesmere College and Mold) and Louis Padian (Bishop Challoner School and Moseley), flanker Will Radburn (Worcester Sixth Form College and Worcester), hooker Henry Waltier (Bromsgrove School and Worcester), former England Under-16 centre James Whybrow (King Edward VI Five Ways and Five Ways OE) and lock Sean Young (Bromsgrove School and Worcester).