Team USA Prepared to Face World’s Best at British Junior Open

Fifty-four players are set to represent Team USA against the world’s best juniors at the 2024 British Junior Open, January 3-7, in Birmingham.

The 2024 BJO marks Team USA’s tenth annual trip to England as a team. The BJO is considered to be akin to the World Junior Championships with the world’s top players competing in all age divisions from U11 to U19, while the World Juniors fields just the U19 division.

Last year, Team USA set a number of new records including its first title double–Madison Ho (GU17) and first boys champion Carlton Capella (BU13)–and new highs of five semifinalists and fifteen quarterfinalists–including a quarterfinalist in all ten divisions.

The U.S. is positioned for another strong performance with seven U.S. Junior Open champions and finalists earning a seeded position in the BJO draws.

GU19 champion Caroline Fouts is set to compete in her sixth BJO and enters the draw as the two seed, while finalist Riya Navani joins Fouts as a 3/4 seed. BU19 champion Rishi Srivastava and World Juniors quarterfinalist Hollis Robertson lead the U.S. men as 5/8 seeds in the BU19 draw.

Two-time U.S. Junior Open GU13 champion Vivienne Sze leads the BJO draw as the top seed. Team USA occupies the top two seeds in the GU11 division with top seed Kaylee Li–the UJSO GU11 champion–and two seed Megha Ravichandran.

In the U15 divisions, Brandan Tagliarini–a USJO finalist–enters as a 3/4 seed. USJO GU15 champion Charlotte Sze and Reghan McLaughlin both enter the BJO draw as 5/8 seeds.

“On the players front, we are traveling with an exciting squad full of talent, youth and experience and incredible depth and that’s the testament to the growth of squash in the United States. We’re also excited to have world No. 14 and former BJO champion Olivia Clyne join our experienced coaching staff this year,” said Karim Ibrahim, US Squash Director of Junior National Teams.

More tournament coverage and select live streaming will be available on britishjunioropen.com.

Team USA Player Roster

BU11 Lars Daly
BU11 Anderson Morgan
BU11 Cameron Stait
BU11 Arhan Barboza
BU11 Carter MacDougall
BU13 Reed Goulding
BU13 Whit Robertson
BU13 Kevin Wu
BU13 Faiz Khan
BU13 henry Urbanek
BU15 Brendan Tagliarini
BU15 Carlton Capella
BU15 Jacob Price
BU15 Arjya Saha
BU15 Aiden Yun
BU17 Christian Capella
BU17 Jack El riani
BU17 Oliver Velasco
BU17 Will Newman
BU17 Hart Robertson
BU19 Rishi Srivastava
BU19 Hollis Robertson
BU19 Zane Patel
BU19 Andrew Glaser
BU19 Alexander Dartnell
GU11 Kaylee Li
GU11 Megha Ravichandran
GU11 Ariana Valerio
GU11 Alice Wang
GU11 Kyra Wang
GU13 Vivienne Sze
GU13 Almeera Jahan Khan
GU13 Emily Ramirez
GU13 Kathryn Chung
GU13 Lara Kim
GU15 Reghan McLaughlin
GU15 Charlotte Sze
GU15 Isabella Tang
GU15 Chelsea Chen
GU15 Akaisha Bhatia
GU15 Layla Gupta
GU15 Kaitlin Vahlsing
GU15 Trinity Moshi
GU17 Dixon Hill
GU17 Charlotte Pastel
GU17 Alexandra Jaffe
GU17 Samantha Jaffe
GU17 Eliza Schuster
GU19 Caroline Fouts
GU19 Riya Navani
GU19 Caroline Eielson
GU19 Emma Trauber
GU19 Avery Park

Team USA Coaching Staff

BU11 Alex Stait
BU13 Ashraf Yassin
BU15 Ollie Holland
GU15 Chris Brownell
BU19 Luke Butterworth
BU17 Charlie Johnson
GU17 Chris Longman
GU13 Nick Taylor
GU11 Vannessa Raj
GU19 Simba Muhwati
GU15 Olivia Clyne
All Karim Ibrahim