BVI Men’s Squash Qualifies for 2026 Cac
The British Virgin Islands men’s squash team secured qualification for the 2026 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games after a decisive victory over the Cayman Islands at the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships in Guyana on November 29, 2025. New reporting adds match-by-match detail, notes this is the BVI’s first CAC qualification since 2014, and confirms Danny Henderson’s Individual Plate title at the event.
The British Virgin Islands men’s squash team booked its place at the 2026 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in the Dominican Republic after defeating the Cayman Islands at the 2025 Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championships in Guyana on November 29, 2025. The team needed a win in the playoff to secure qualification and achieved it convincingly, capitalising early when the Cayman side was unable to field a fifth player and conceding a 1-0 lead to the BVI (reported by Virgin Islands News Online and Island Sun).
The BVI began the tie properly with Danny Henderson first on court. Henderson produced a composed and authoritative 3-0 victory to extend the lead to 2-0, a performance that reflected his excellent form throughout the tournament (match details and commentary from Island Sun). Luca Reich then delivered the tie-clinching result against Christian Dube.
After two tightly contested opening games — Reich edged the first 12-10 and then held his nerve late in the second — he pulled away in the third to seal a 3-0 win and give the BVI an unassailable 3-0 advantage, guaranteeing CAC qualification (match scoreline from Virgin Islands News Online and Island Sun).
With qualification secured, Joe Chapman added a 3-1 victory over Julian Jervis — last year’s Caribbean Championships silver medallist — and Oliver (Oli) Henderson closed the encounter with another 3-1 win. Rory Thornton, the fifth squad member, was not required to take the court because the Cayman side was short a player (reported by VINO and Island Sun).
The road to that decisive match included mixed results earlier in the tournament. The BVI fell to Jamaica 4-1 in pool play — Joe Chapman beat Jamaica’s Jonathan Walker but Jamaica recovered to win the next four matches — and then advanced through the playoffs by defeating Trinidad and Tobago 4-1, a tie that featured Chapman’s 11-1, 11-1, 11-2 win over Luc Davis and Danny Henderson’s straight-sets victory over Brandon de Montrichard (match details from Island Sun).
Individually, Danny Henderson capped a strong week by winning the Plate final, beating Ross D’Juran of Trinidad and Tobago 11-2, 11-3 and 11-5, having earlier defeated Guyana’s Nichola Verwey in the semis, Island Sun reports. Luca Reich also had notable individual matches, including a plate-round win over Guyana’s Miguel Wong before returning to full form against Christian Dube in the tie-clincher.
This qualification is the first time the BVI men’s team has qualified for the CAC Games since 2014, according to Island Sun. The BVI joins eight other confirmed nations for the 2026 CAC Games: Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Barbados, Guyana, Bermuda, Jamaica and hosts the Dominican Republic.
Several countries failed to qualify from this CASA event, including Venezuela, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, the Cayman Islands, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Lucia and the Bahamas (as reported by VINO). For BVI residents and the local squash community, the result is an important boost: competing at the CAC Games will provide valuable international experience for local players and could stimulate further investment in coaching and junior development as the team prepares for the Dominican Republic in 2026.
Reporting compiled from Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) and Island Sun.
Primary source: VINO