Cambridgeshire schoolboys Samuel Goodger and Callum Calvert contest 2025 IAPS National Schools Squash Championships final at Nottingham University

Twelve children from two Cambridgeshire schools travelled to compete at Nottingham University in the 2025 IAPS National Schools Championships.

And the final of the Open Category for Year 8 children proved to be an all Cambridgeshire affair as Sam Goodger got the better of Callum Calvert in a close contest.

Calvert, who was one of three King’s College School, Cambridge, pupils to qualify for the finals, took the first game with some counter-attacking squash. However, number one seed Goodger of King’s Ely School rallied and showed the sort of form that had seen him triumph in three knock-out matches.

Goodger upped the intensity to dominate the second game and set up a winner-takes-all shoot-out in the third game.

The training partners were locked at five points apiece, but Goodger then took control to eventually win the national title 9-11, 11-4, 11-5.

Managing director of the Sports Academy, Colin Griggs, said: “To have an all Cambridgeshire final, and two players from the Sports Academy junior squads contesting a national title is superb. The quality of squash, in very difficult and unfamiliar conditions on the all-glass court, was brilliant and both boys should be really proud of themselves.”