Gutsy Hastings Boys High School 1st XV rugby flanker Liam Udy-Johns knows the day will come when he has to choose between the oval-ball code and softball.
"Hopefully after next year's Junior World Series for softball in Canada if I make the team. I could have gone to Australia this month with a New Zealand Development team but I did that last year and missed too many rugby games ...
"I don't want to miss out on any part of this roll, we're going well because we're all working together as a team," Udy-Johns explained after his unbeaten side recorded their fourth consecutive win in the Super 8 competition and 13th for the season with a 53-0 drubbing of Rotorua Boys' High School in Hastings on Saturday.
Udy-Johns, 17, showed why he was one of 11 payers from the side selected to attend the Hurricanes' under-18 development camp next week with a huge defensive workrate and some accurate work at the breakdown. Some Rotorua supporters found it hard to believe this is his first season as a flanker at this level after playing second five-eighth last year.
"You get to make more tackles as a flanker and there is more physicality ... I'm loving it. I'm going to come back to school again next year I'm loving it so much," Udy-Johns said.