Roosters junior wins State selection
Woy Woy Roosters 12-1s player Bradman Best has been selected to play for the NSW All Schools Rugby League Team at the upcoming National Championship to be held in Perth from August 3 to 11.
"The path to selection has been a long one for the Year 6 St John Baptist student, whose parents Tobi and Roger clocked up the kilometres to get Bradman to games and training," said Woy Woy Junior Rugby League Football Club secretary Mr Tim McParlane.
In May this year, Bradman trialled at Tuggerah and was selected in the Broken Bay team which covered all Catholic schools from the Northern Beaches and Central Coast areas.
The victors then travelled to Bathurst, with Bradman trialling for two days before he was selected in the Polding team.
In June, the Polding team competed in the State Carnival for three days against teams such as Sydney North, Sydney West, Sydney South East, Hunter and MacKillop.
The Polding team finished third overall out of 14 teams, with Bradman scoring in every game and kicking seven goals from eight attempts.
At the end of the carnival, a 34-player squad was selected for NSW with Bradman showing enough talent to be selected in the squad.
The squad went into camp two weeks later at the NSW Academy of Sport in Narrabeen for five days of extensive training three times a day, and trialling against Parramatta's under-14s representative side.
Upon completion of the camp, when the parents arrived to pick up their boys, the teams were announced with Bradman being successfully selected in the first team at lock.
"Bradman loved every minute of the camp and was excited with selection in the state team, but was totally exhausted after the gruelling five days, falling asleep before hitting the freeway on the trip home," said Bradman's mum Tobi.
Bradman will be joined on the trip to Western Australia by hid dad Roger and granddad Peter, with Peter under strict instructions to record all Bradman's games for the rest of the family to enjoy on their return.
Email, 11 July 2013
Tim McParlane Woy Woy Junior Rugby League Football Club