{"id":839086,"date":"2026-08-02T04:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839086\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T04:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:02:11","slug":"2026-force-academy-awards-winners-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839086\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Force Academy Awards winners revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Western<br \/>\nForce celebrated the Club\u2019s next generation of emerging talent with the second-ever<br \/>\nForce Academy Awards at Clancy\u2019s Fish Bar in City Beach on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Cottesloe<br \/>\ntighthead prop Regin Pratt was crowned as the Academy MVP for 2026, having made<br \/>\nan impressive impact at club level and during the Super Rugby Next Gen series<br \/>\nin February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Queensland-raised<br \/>\nPratt only joined the Force Academy last year, but impressed quickly, earning<br \/>\nthe award voted by staff and players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Nedlands back<br \/>\nFatani Fatanitavake claimed the Academy Rookie of the Year gong, following an<br \/>\nimpressive 12 months within the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Previously<br \/>\nwith Kalamunda, Fatanitavake has come through the RugbyWA pathway, being part<br \/>\nof the Force Under-19s last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Wanneroo<br \/>\nscrum-half Tamarangi Tunui was voted by staff and players as the Maali Man,<br \/>\nawarded for upholding the values of the Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force celebrated the Club\u2019s next generation of emerging talent with the second-ever Force Academy Awards at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,11229],"class_list":["post-839086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}