| Harry Ellis
The only Tigers player named in the original Lions squad for the 2009 tour to South Africa, Harry was joined by Tom Croft and they each made their first appearance against Golden Lions. They became the gfirst graduates of the Tigers Academy to reach Lions status.
Now in his ninth season in the first-team squad, he played every match of England’s Six Nations campaign in 2009, the fourth time he had achieved this feat since his international debut against South Africa in 2004.
Harry made his Tigers debut against Toulouse in August 2001 scored a try as a teenager in the Heineken Cup semi-final win over Llanelli in 2002.
He played his 100th match for the club during 2006/07 and, after returning from a serious knee injury, he scored a try in the Guinness Premiership Final of 2008 at Twickenham and then reclaimed his spot in the England squad.
Harry began playing rugby as a six-year-old with South Leicester, then moved to Wigston for a year before joining the Tigers Academy set-up in 1997. He played for Leicester Grammar School, Leicestershire and the Midlands at age-group level before going on to earn a full house of England representative honours, appearing at U-16, U-18, U-19, U-21, Sevens, A and senior levels. |
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