QRU Foundation. <\/a><\/p>\nSupport from a donor meant the funds were there for Prince to be flown to Brisbane for a full training schedule last week to gel in a new team under Next Gen 7s coach Shannon Parry.<\/p>\n
“Layne has been on the radar and I got to take away for the Global Youth Sevens tournament in Auckland last December,” Parry said.<\/p>\n
“Funding through a donor made it possible for her to get down from Townsville because a big piece was giving her that training exposure before we could pick her. The Queensland Academy of Sport has helped with Layne coming down a second time this week and it’s right timing, right place with the Next Gen 7s in Sydney this weekend.<\/p>\n
“You want to give chances to as many good regional kids as possible. Layne has electric footwork, she reads the game well, she ball plays and she got that competitiveness.”<\/p>\n
Prince already feels a comfort with some familiar faces in Queensland’s young team. Aimee Henry and Madison Pomerenke were teammates at the Global Youth Sevens and she’s played in Indigenous teams with Rhani Hagan and Reese Orcher.<\/p>\n
Prince’s Kalkadoon mob are from the Mt Isa region.<\/p>\n
“It’s really good to see Rhani and Reese making a mark. Sometimes we don’t get the chance to be on the big stage,” Prince said.<\/p>\n
“We have a lot of good skill and natural talent that gets overlooked in a way. And that’s the same for a lot of girls who don’t get the opportunity to be looked at like you do in Brisbane.”<\/p>\n
For Sydney, Zoe Waters can also look forward to an overdue debut. She is a high-impact player who has put injury worries behind her.<\/p>\n
Charlie Brigstocke has played Next Gen 7s for the ACT Brumbies but this will be her first outing for Queensland.<\/p>\n
QUEENSLAND NEXT GEN 7s TEAM<\/p>\n
(* debut)<\/p>\n
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