DEARBORN — National Team Recruitment Camp standout Ahmad Harajly, 21, could earn his first cap with the Men’s Eagles Sevens after Head Coach Mike Friday selected the Detroit Tradesmen player for Wellington Sevens, the fourth leg of the 2014-15 World Rugby HSBC Sevens World Series.

Harajly and Mataiyasi Leuta were the two athletes invited to last week’s Men’s Eagles Sevens High Performance Camp from the first National Team Recruitment Camp at the Olympic Training Center the previous weekend.

The Eagles are in Pool A in New Zealand with France, Japan and series-leading South Africa. Day One at Westpac Stadium kicks off Thursday, Feb. 5, in the American time zones.

“The Recruitment Camp boys – obviously they worked so hard to get there and sacrificed a lot to get to the combine – just continued that work ethic and, behavior-wise, and with the culture, they’ve slipped in seamlessly,” Friday said. “It just illustrates there are no sacred cows; nobody’s safe.

“You’ve got to earn your opportunity and Ahmad has managed to do that.”

Having played rugby for six years, Harajly had the necessary skills and knowledge to stand above the other 55 athletes (excluding Leuta) at the Recruitment Camp, including American footballers and similar crossover-to-rugby athletes.

Harajly is a longtime Dearborn resident and has played with the Detroit Tradesmen Rugby Club and the Dearborn Area Silverbacks Rugby Club.

The Eagles currently hold the ninth-place position in the series standings after three tournaments. Pool mate South Africa leads the table with 59 points, more than twice as much as the Eagles’ 26.

Following the trip across the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand, the Eagles will travel to Las Vegas for the home leg of the series, USA Sevens. Tickets are still available for the Feb. 13-15 event at Sam Boyd Stadium.

Watch the Eagles at Wellington Sevens beginning with their match against Japan at 6:21 p.m. ET on Universal Sports.