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James Nicholas Verity-Amm (born (1994-06-08)8 June 1994) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with Australian Super Rugby side the Force and with Perth Spirit in the National Rugby Championship. He can play as a winger or full-back.
Rugby career
2013–2015: Youth and Varsity Shield rugby
Verity-Amm was born in Kroonstad, but grew up in the Western Cape, where he attended Hottentots Holland High School in Somerset West. In 2013, Verity-Amm made two appearances for the Cape Town-based Western Province U19 in the Under-19 Provincial Championship.
He played Varsity Shield rugby for UWC in 2014 and 2015. He scored four tries in seven appearances in 2014 – including two in a match against UFH Blues – as UWC struggled in the competition, finishing second-bottom on the log. In 2015, Verity-Amm endured a purple patch, scoring hat-tricks in both of their matches against UFH Blues, and away to eventual runner-up Wits, and two tries against TUT Vikings, to finish as the competition's top scorer with eleven tries in seven starts.
He also featured for Western Province U21 in the 2015 Under-21 Provincial Championship, making three appearances, including one in the final, where he scored a late try to round off his side's 52–17 victory over Free State U21 to secure the title.
2016–present: Western Force and Perth Spirit
In 2016, Verity-Amm moved to Perth in Australia, where he joined the Future Force, the academy of the Western Force Super Rugby franchise. We was named in the Perth Spirit squad for the 2016 National Rugby Championship, but failed to feature in any matches.
After featuring for the Western Force against the Perth Spirit at a pre-season trial match in January 2017 which saw him score a hat-trick of tries in a 22–14 win, Verity-Amm was then named in the starting line-up for their home match against the Lions in Round Ten of the 2017 Super Rugby season.