JAC Davies from Newcastle Emlyn and his Ospreys team-mates won the recent GBWR (Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby) Lord Taverners Junior Tournament.

Five teams from across the UK travelled to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire in a bid to win the crown and The Ospreys came out on top to bring the winners’ trophy back to Wales for the first time.

Thirteen-year-old Jac is a year 10 pupil at Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn and has been playing wheelchair rugby for the past two-and-a-half years.

The sport is notoriously physical and tough with collisions commonplace but Jac, who ha cerebral palsy and epilepsy, has thrived since starting playing.

Proud mum Mandy said: "One of Jac's sports teachers had been watching the Ospreys play when he found out about the club playing junior wheelchair rugby and it all started from there.

"It can be a hard sport but Jac has come on so well. When he first went we had to push him but now he pushes himself and is happy to crash into others.

"Someone from Exeter came up to us to say how much he had improved and to hear something like that was brilliant.

"The team played so well to win the trophy in the final game. It was a real team effort, with all of them scoring tries and it was the first time a Welsh side had won it."

Jac travels to train with the the Ospreys Junior team every Sunday afternoon at the Llandarcy Academy of Sport.

"If we were to buy a chair for Jac it would cost about £3,000 but the club has about 10 or 12 and Jac uses one of those," added Mandy.

"Playing wheelchair rugby has given him so much confidence as when he started out he was very shy. Maybe he can now give the Ospreys senior team a few tips!"