Full-back Sonny Parkes has been with AFC Bournemouth since the under-9s age-group.
He was born in south-east London and moved to Basingstoke, where he's lived since.
Between the age of seven and nine, he played for several clubs at academy level but joined the Cherries at the age of nine.
Parkes boasts good ball manipulation and an impressive work rate and agreed a first-year scholarship in the summer of 2023.