Huddersfield fencer Alex Spencer-Taylor has been selected for the Great Britain Junior team.
The 18-year-old from Shelley is now attending the Royal Veterinary College in London but, while enjoying the work in the capital and settling into university life, he has maintained his commitment to the sport.
He’s been entering ranking competitions in British fencing’s Junior section, which is Under 20s, and Spencer-Taylor is now seventh in the country.
Because of his ranking position, He’s been chosen to represent GB at the Eden Cup in London this coming weekend.
And at the end of this month, he will travel with the GB team to another international competition at Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.
That national ranking of seventh also means he is on the radar for potential squad consideration for the 2015 Junior Commonwealth games in South Africa.
Last weekend, Spencer-Taylor entered the open-age Cambridge Winter Tournament, as a testing warm-up for this weekend’s event in London, and he finished third, narrowly losing to the eventual winner in the semi-finals.
A former member of the GB Cadet Foil team (Under 17), when he was at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield, the talented Spencer-Taylor has also represented Yorkshire and competed in Europe, his first GB event being in Halle, Germany.
