EVAN Hodgson has won Bradford Bulls Academy's BullBuilder player of the month award for the second time this season.

The prop forward from Stanningley has starred for the under-19s this season and made his first-team debut in the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup tie against Featherstone Rovers, scoring a try.

Evan's continued development since for the under-19s, who have also been improving collectively, have earned him the award for June.

The Bulls' head of youth development John Bastian, who collected the awad on Evan's behalf at Sunday's Kingstone Press Championship home match against Swinton Lions, said: “He’s still in only his second year in the academy and has so much development left in him.

"He’s kicked on since earlier in the season really well and become a leader in his group, and it’s about realising that potential and fine tuning those qualities going forward."

 BullBuilder also received a cheque for £4,000 from Barclays Bank as matched funding from the BullBuilder Spring Ball.

BullBuilder chairman Paul Butterworth said: “The matched funding from Barclays is a wonderful gesture and we are very grateful. It will be put to good use developing our young players.”

“The donation will go toward funding of IT equipment to enable coaches and players to access the NAC-SPORT Analysis System.

"This will provide education and development not only to our younger junior players but also our coaching staff.”

Bastian added: said “The Spring Ball was a great success and we are extremely grateful to Bull Builder and Barclays Bank (Claire Stirk, Craig Ricketts, Vicki Seal, Leigh Beeby and Amy Morgan) for their continued backing.”

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