LAST year’s RLPA Under 20s player of the season, hooker Harry Grant, has been credited with rushing into torrid surf on a northern NSW beach to save a woman’s life.
The father of Melbourne’s Grant, 19, has told the Port News the pair was walking on Oxley Beach on Christmas Eve when they heard two women shouting for help from the surf.
“My son and I know the beaches in Port Macquarie fairly well, and we had just gone down for a swim when we noticed two women in dire need of help,” said Paul Grant.
“As soon as it was obvious that no-one else was going to help, Harry, a rugby player, jumped into the water and swam out to help.
“Thankfully it was all over within a matter of minutes but it could have had some really bad consequences if no-one had stepped in to help.”
According to the Melbourne Storm website. Grant was “able to swim the first woman back to shore which allowed the second lady to find her way back”.
Interestingly, the Queensland under 20s representative seems to have given the Storm some extra detail for the story but was not quoted – a sign, perhaps, of a humble hero.
Grant, a Yeppoon junior, captained the Storm’s under 20s side last year.
It’s his first year with the top squad in 2018 and he admitted in a club interview before Christmas that being part time had been “really tough”.
“Up at 4.30 every morning, go to training, go to work, go to training in the arv’. We got smashed through those two weeks (in late 2017) and it’s good to rip in during the day now.
“Just the intensity, the speed and the professionalism that they all show … it’s a step above.
“I just want to have a good pre-season, make a good impression through a bit of hard work and then hopefully next year push for Q Cup.”
