{"id":452648,"date":"2026-03-01T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452648\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:21:06","slug":"son-of-warrington-wolves-cult-hero-pens-deal-aiming-to-follow-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452648\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Warrington Wolves cult hero pens deal aiming to follow suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaden Penny, the son of Warrington cult hero Kevin, has penned an academy contract with the Wolves as he aims to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>Dad Kevin, now 38, made his first-team debut for hometown club Warrington off the bench in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/super-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a> clash against St Helens back in September 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring 63 tries in 93 appearances across his two stints at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, the winger lifted the Super League Leaders\u2019 Shield with Wire in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He was also part of the Wolves squad which won the Challenge Cup in 2010: but did not feature in Tony Smith\u2019s 17 for the final against Leeds Rhinos under the Wembley arch.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Penny\u2019s career saw him don a shirt for Widnes Vikings, Harlequins, Wakefield Trinity, Swinton Lions, North Wales Crusaders and Rochdale Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>Hanging up the boots at the end of 2017, he had scored 122 tries and kicked two goals in his 194 career appearances.<\/p>\n<p>And now, 16-year-old son Jaden will hope to pick up the mantle as he looks to forge a career in the game with the club he grew up watching his dad play for.<\/p>\n<p>Want more Love Rugby League? Add us as a <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=loverugbyleague.com\" target=\"_blank\">preferred source on Google<\/a> and ensure you never miss our exclusives and breaking news!<\/p>\n<p>Son of Warrington cult hero Kevin Penny pens contract with Wolves aiming to follow in father\u2019s footsteps<\/p>\n<p>Jaden \u2013 who will turn 17 in April \u2013 has featured for a number of local community clubs throughout his junior career, including Woolston Rovers.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster has also been involved with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/warrington-wolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warrington<\/a> at youth level, and has now made that official by putting pen to paper on an academy contract.<\/p>\n<p>Dad Kevin shared the news of his son\u2019s landmark moment via social media earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Penny senior posted a picture of Jaden signing his contract surrounded by his family, and wrote: \u201cUnbelievably proud of you son. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep working as hard as you have been and the sky is your limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all behind you Jaden.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaden Penny, the son of Warrington cult hero Kevin, has penned an academy contract with the Wolves as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-452648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}