Swans Academy pair Junior stars
Ben Fisher encourages his screen-loving mates to enjoy the outside.
This article originally appeared on The Daily Telegraph website.
By Danielle Nicastri.
Ben, 11 from Hornsby Heights dislikes playing indoors and actively encourages his technology-loving school mates to get playing sports outside.
Not even rain will deters this ball of energy.
“I don’t really like to play inside and watch TV and stuff,” he said.
“I still play in the rain, I just don’t like it as much.”
His good attitude and enthusiasm has seen him awarded several coaches’ and best and fairest awards in his teams; Hornsby Berowra Under 12 Eagles, the Hornsby, Ku-ring-gai Hills District Cricket representative team, Hornsby Heights Public School’s football team and the Hornsby Cricket Club under 11s.
“We had to cut it back to playing three sports otherwise he would play everything,” his mother Karen Bruce said.
“He sort of doesn’t stop until the time he gets to bed.”
Ben Fisher encourages his screen-loving mates to enjoy the outside.
His under 12 Eagles team mate Oliver, 12, also spends the same amount of time playing sport and being active.
“He won’t sit still for too long,” his father Steve South said.
“He enjoys playing with his team mates and enjoys the camaraderie with team sports.”
Also nominated in the NewsLocal Junior Sports Star competition, Oliver has jumped three age groups to play in the under 15s as well his own under 12 Berowra Eagles side.
Last year while playing for Brooklyn Public School, his PSSA AFL team placed third out of 12 teams representing regions of NSW, after only losing one game.
Oliver South loves being active all day.
“They went in placed ninth and finished third which was really good, playing against teams which tend to take out the title every year,” Mr South said.
Their talent has seen both boys selected in the Sydney Swans Academy at the start of this year under head coach and former Swans games record holder, Michael O’Loughlin.
A club spokesman said being selected in the academy was one step closer to playing for the Swans.
When academy players reach 18, they are able to be recruited by the Swans as a priority draft selection.
At 18, academy graduate Isaac Heeney did just that, kicking four goals for the Swans against against Greater Western Sydney in round 3 of the competition.
