Harde werk, toewyding en deursettingsvermo\u00eb het Donovan Don geplaas waar hy vandag is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 jongman van Velddrif is gekies om hom by die o.20- Junior Springbokspan aan te sluit, waar hy sy land en die Weskus by die \u201cSix Nation Summer Series\u201d in Itali\u00eb gaan ver\u00adteenwoor\u00addig. Hy is gekies om sy merk as veelsydige agterspeler te maak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don vertel toe hy die nuus ontvang het dat hy die span gehaal het, was dit \u2019n emosionele oomblik vir hom \u2013 s\u00f3 groot dat hy nie sy gevoelens kon beskryf nie. \u201cEk kon net die Here dankie s\u00ea vir \u2019n droom wat waar geword het,\u201d vertel hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don se liefde en passie vir rugby het al op \u2019n jong ouderdom ontwikkel. Met sy pa, wat ook rugby gespeel het, as voorbeeld het hy die eerste smakie van die sport toe al beleef. Don het sy belangstelling in rugby by Noordhoek Prim\u00ear begin uitleef, waar sy grondslag gel\u00ea is en hy gegroei het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don het op 12 en 13 jaar die Boland-span\/Kusstreek gehaal. Hy is in 2015 gekies om deel van die Vyftiental-rugbyweek te wees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daarna het Don voortgegaan en sy ho\u00ebrskoolloopbaan by die Ho\u00ebrskool Louwville begin, waar hy die afrigter Alfredo Barends ontmoet het, wat \u2019n tweejaarbeurs by Welkom Gimnasium bewerkstellig het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHier het ek goeie rugby gespeel en ek is meer blootgestel aan nog geleenthede.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don was ook lid van die Griffons-span, waarna hy die geleentheid gekry het om vir die Junior Springbokspan te gaan oefen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Om sy land en die Weskus te teenwoordig, is vir Don \u2019n groot eer. Sy familie, afrigters en gemeenskap is sy grootste ondersteuners, en hy is dankbaar daarvoor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk kon sien hoe my ouers altyd hul laaste gee as ek iewers heen moes gaan. So, ek het dit nooit as vanselfsprekend aanvaar dat ek iets moes kry nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy boodskap aan jongmense is dat dit nie saak maak in watter omstandighede jy is nie \u2013 deur harde werk kom \u2019n mens soms stadig, soms vinnig by jou droom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMoet net nie ophou droom nie. Stel jou vertroue in God, en glo wat jy wil h\u00ea of doen, gaan gebeur; moet nooit moed verloor nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don voeg by hy is trots op waar hy vandag is en wat hy tot dusver bereik het. \u201cEk sal nooit vergeet waar ek vandaan kom nie; dit is my nederigheid wat my tot hier gekry het en my sal deurdra.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die reeks skop aanstaande Vrydag (24 Junie) af. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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