Dante Davids, \u2019n voormalige leerder aan die Laerskool Darling tot en met graad 6, het op 12-jarige ouderdom die aandag van die Westelike Provinsie se skolekeurders getrek tydens wedstryde waarin hy uitgeblink het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Davids, wat uit Mamre kom, se talent is vroeg deur sy skoolafrigter, Marinus Breedt, by Darling Prim\u00ear raakgesien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nadat hy sy buiging vir die WP-o.13-Cravenweek-span in 2022 gemaak het \u2013 terwyl hy by Van Riebeeck Strand Prim\u00ear was \u2013 het Davids vinnig tot \u2019n uitstekende speler ontwikkel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 jong speler is deur \u2019n sportbeurs gelok en hy is na die Ho\u00ebr Jongenskool Paarl (HJS) gebring \u2013 een van die toprugbyskole in die land; dieselfde skool waar die Springbokke Carel du Plessis, Corn\u00e9 Krige en Guthr\u00f6 Steenkamp en SA Skole-spelers Jameel en Shah-Jehaan de Jong van Atlantis gekweek is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir die beskeie Mamre-seun was die besluit om by HJS aan te sluit, \u2019n uitdaging, maar hy het die leiding van sy hart gevolg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel Davids verkies om as losskakel te speel, het sy oorgang na HJS in 2023 daartoe gelei dat hy deur sy nuwe afrigter as heelagter gekies is, met die oortuiging dat Davids \u2019n beduidende impak vanuit hierdie posisie met sy ontwykende spoed en krag kan maak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sedert hy van posisie verander het, het hy merkwaardi\u00adge vordering as heelagter getoon en sy plek in die HJS se o.15A-rugbyspan verseker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Davids erken dat die aanpassing nie moeilik was nie, aangesien hy reeds ervaring in die posisie by sy vorige skole opgedoen het. Hy s\u00ea egter die oorgang van laerskool- na ho\u00ebrskoolrugby is gekenmerk deur \u2019n vinniger speltempo en minder ruimte vir foute \u2013 \u2019n les wat hy vinnig geleer het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAfrigters soos Ruan Vermeulen, Lucian Cupido, Corn\u00e9 van Tonder en Marinus Breedt het my gehelp om opgemerk te word sodat ek my drome kan najaag \u2013 net soos ander sportmanne en -vroue voor my,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is trots op my prestasies tot dusver, en my ouers ook, want hulle ondersteun my altyd wanneer hulle kan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNoudat ek my plek in HJS se o.15A-span verseker het, streef ek na my volgende doelwit, die Grant Khomo- o.16-span, maar voordat dit kan gebeur, plaas ek my vertroue in God, want Hy sal my lei om my doelwitte te bereik.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Davids gee erkenning aan sy ouers, afrigters, spanmaats, en Bertus Preller vir hul ondersteuning en bydrae tot sy sukses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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