Try-Scorer hopes he’ll be next Blue to get an England call-up
Zakk Scorer. wk 08.
BLUES: Young Bedford Blues winger Zakk Scorer is verging on England honours after he attended an England U16 Training Camp at the weekend.
The 16-year-old Bedford Modern School student was one of 104 boys selected for the training camp at Stowe School after he was also called up for the Midlands U16 squad.
His mum Julie said: “Zakk has had quite a journey and has a great story to tell from him swapping from football to rugby only three seasons ago and he has made a fantastic achievement to have progressed so far in such a short space of time being a relatively new rugby player. Zakk’s dad, Lee Scorer, was the Bedford Town Youth football manager for a few years and coached Zakk to U13s.
“He was their top goalscorer the season that he left to pursue his career in rugby. His dad was torn and decided to stop managing so that he could support Zakk in his new-found passion for rugby three years ago.
“Zakk was still making his decision over football v rugby when Bedford Junior Blues coach Chris Wright invited him to a rugby tour in Nottingham.
“While Zakk was there he was spotted by a Northampton Saints scout and joined their Academy the following week and has never looked back, the rest as they say is history, so it was obviously his fate and destiny! He was also BMS’s top try scorer last and this season.”
“He and some other Beds boys have had quite an exciting rugby fast-track journey over the last few months and have progressed through East Midlands trials to Midlands trials and are now attending the England U16 rugby training camp this weekend from February 16 to 18.”
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Tuesday 29 May 2012
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