A powerful group of junior gamers have dedicated their futures to Stormers Rugby.
College rugby season is in full swing, with high quality rugby being performed throughout the Western Cape each weekend and several other extremely promising gamers are poised to make the transition to skilled rugby subsequent 12 months.
Stormers Rugby have already secured the providers of a number of of those star gamers for 2026 and past, which is able to proceed the regular stream of expertise into the system.
The Paarl Gimnasium duo of centre Markus Muller and unfastened ahead Quintin Potgieter, Rondebosch Boys unfastened ahead Alutha Wesi, centre Randall-John Davids and prop Matt van der Merwe, wing Jordan Steenkamp, hooker Altus Rabe and unfastened ahead Gert Kemp from Paul Roos, Wynberg Boys flyhalf Yaqeen Ahmed, Boland Landbou scrumhalf Jayden Brits and Gray School lock AJ Meyer have all agreed to affix Stormers Rugby subsequent 12 months.
Director of Rugby John Dobson mentioned that the contracting mannequin is to take a look at native expertise from the area first as a method to maintain strengthening the pathway system which has seen DHL Western Province U21 win two consecutive nationwide titles, with a lot of these gamers happening to function for the DHL Stormers as properly.
“This speaks to our goal as an organisation of harnessing the expertise we’ve got on our doorstep and strengthening the reference to our followers by contracting gamers from their communities to take our workforce ahead.
“After all we nonetheless maintain any eye on probably the most promising gamers from across the nation and can make strategic acquisitions from outdoors the area if we really feel they are going to make an enormous distinction,” he mentioned.
Dobson mentioned that this robust consumption of native expertise is extraordinarily encouraging as Stormers Rugby look to construct vital depth by drawing on the most effective that the faculties within the Western Cape have to supply.
“We’ve got seen a number of massive success tales in recent times, with the likes of Damian Willemse, Salmaan Moerat, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, JD Schickerling and Suleiman Hartzenberg all coming via our system to turn into family names.
“We count on the identical to occur with many of those gamers who will be part of our surroundings subsequent 12 months and we’re not achieved right here, with a number of extra vital names set to be added to this record within the close to future,” he mentioned.
