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Caelan Stanton
What are your aspirations for the future?
Primarily I want to play rugby as a profession, but I want to go to university as well. I’m hoping to go to a Russell Group University, Exeter, Bath, somewhere like that and continue my rugby there but also study. My first choice of course is Sports Psychology but I’m also considering Economics and going down the business path, hopefully to get a nice paying job in London, somewhere like that. I think, with my A Level options, there are a wider range of opportunities as well, not just one pathway which is the best thing.
I’ll carry on with my Harlequins rugby until I’m 18, get a contract, hopefully, and then play rugby for my university alongside that because as a young player, you won’t really get much first team
experience so they’ll allow you to play for the university. Rugby is a short career so I think you need a contingency plan.
Do you think that’s quite a realistic goal, playing for Harlequins?
Hopefully. But my life doesn’t end at Harlequins, I could go somewhere else. I want to play rugby and be involved at some high level.
To get the Harlequins contract, would you do trials there or would they just tell you if you’d got a contract?
At the end of the 18 season, which will be next season for me, they will select about 4 or 5 people and then say you’ve got a contact at this much a year, for 4 or 5 years, however long, and then you’ll build it from there.
Were you inspired by any other players at Seaford that had done that?
Yes in particular Fergus Guiry who got the England 7s contract. And obviously our Headmaster,
Mr Green is a massive inspiration. I'm studying quite similar subjects at A Level. That’s quite an inspiration as well.
I’m hoping for quite high grades. I want AAB to get into university. I have to put in the work.
Fergus Segrove found his passion for Performing Arts at Seaford and aspires to be an actor.
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