YOUNG Medway-based boxer Rhys Simmons has been included in the British squad to take part in the Junior Olympics in Texas later this month.

St Mary's fighter Simmons, 16, a regular England international and former national schoolboy champion, has been picked to fight in the under-54kg category.

And there’s more good news for the club as Ricky Rose has been selected in the English squad to take part in the European Championships in Liverpool later in the month. The twice national schoolboy champion will compete in the under-52kg category.

Trainer Charlie Rumble said: “I’m delighted for the pair of them. We’ve never had a fighter in the junior Olympics.

“He’s achieved so much in a short space of time and he’s got a good future ahead of him."

Simmons fought in Azherbaijan recently and performed well getting to the quarter-finals of the international match.

Rumble added: “Ricky has come on a bundle ever since he joined us. He’s getting stronger all the time and he’s working hard.

“He’s been England squad training and the coach said he was going to bypass the Four Nations because he won that last year and put him in the Europeans. It’s a great advert for St Mary’s.”