A talented young rugby player from Hounslow will this week fly out to South Africa to take part in a prestigious training camp seen as a pathway to a test career.
Omari Stafford-Davies will tread in the same footsteps as the likes of Francois Steyn, Marcell Coetzee, JP Peitersen, Pat Lambie and Brad Barritt when he attends the Sharks Academy Training Camp in Kwa-Zulu, Durban.
The two weeks course runs for two weeks from next Monday, and will see the London Wasps Academy star come up against some of the world's best young rugby talents.
However, the Trinidad-born 16 year old has only been playing rugby for two years, having started out as a footballer, and only taking up the oval-shaped ball game on joining Gunnersbury School for Boys in Brentford.
Before long, his pace and try-scoring potential was spotted and he was playing for the Middlesex County side, where he has remained ever since.
But it is not just his rugby talents that are in demand. Having just finished his GCSEs, Stafford-Davies has received offers from the Cranleigh Schools in both the UK and Abu Dhabi, as well as St Georges in Vancouver, Canada.
