Bowral Blues Cricket Club has affirmed its reputation as a powerhouse for junior development.
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With another string of juniors bracing for season representative honours, the club has launched calls for 2019/20 registrations.
Six of the club's shining male and female juniors were selected by Cricket NSW to participate in top-level pathway winter training programs at various locations across the Highlands and Illawarra.
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These players are Liam Bayliss, Eliza Heinecke, Hilary Swan, Hayden Willebrand, Annalee Watson and Willoughby Watson.
The talent-focused winter training prepares the players to take their cricket to higher stages at club level and at various regional and state representative carnivals.
Fifteen-year old Eliza Heinecke is vying for selection at the Country Cricket NSW U18 Female State Challenge, while 14-year-old Hillary Swan and 12-year-old Annalee Watson have secured places to participate in the U15 all-girls Margaret Peden Shield, with a chance of being selected for the broader U15 Female State Challenge.
All three girls have earned state representative stripes in previous seasons.
Fourteen-year-old top-order batter Willoughby Watson has been selected to play for Sydney University in the U16 Sydney-based AW Green Shield competition, Australia's premier U16 competition and a gateway for young cricketers interested in playing grade cricket in Sydney.
Watson has also been selected for the Highlands/Illawarra U15 NSW Country Cricket Youth Championships to be played in Dubbo and the Illawarra.
Blues paceman Hayden Willebrand has also been selected to play in the Country Cricket Youth Championships.
The players are following in the footsteps of many Blues juniors who have graduated to higher cricketing honours, including Charlie Dummer and Ravi Wickramanayake who are making solid impressions playing grade cricket in Sydney, and Australian baggy-green junior paceman Dom O'Shannessy who continues to shine at national pathway carnivals.
Dom is also preparing to debut playing grade cricket in Sydney this season, along with other Blues' alumni juniors James Morton and Ben Tucker.
Bowral Blues head coach Brian Martin said the club always strived to give all juniors a fair go and nurture potential.
"We keep the focus on what really matters, which is making sure that juniors are included and enjoying their cricket," Brian Martin said.
"That's testimony to why there are so many junior success stories at Bowral Blues Cricket Club.
"We have long-term qualified and respected coaches and volunteers who give everything they have to making junior cricket better."
Parents of juniors and seniors interested in playing for Bowral Blues Cricket Club can call Brian Martin on 0419 989 905, or Google 'Bowral Blues Cricket Club'.
