Born in Jamaica, Heron grew up in Manchester’s roughest area – Moss Side. The notorious estate regularly attracts a life of crime, but through basketball and an ambitious mother, Heron is now studying for a degree in Graphics.

”Sport keeps you off the street and your mind focused. I have always been high on education, but before basketball I wasn’t that focused… I was just chillin’ on the street. If I didn’t have basketball I don’t know where I would be right now. Lots of my friends from school have gone into bad crowds, with some in prison, if it wasn’t for basketball or my mum, that could have been me…”