CHARLOTTE Heron and Rachel Almond are leading a Solent Rising Stars invasion on the USA.

The two girls are jetting off to America next week to improve their basketball skills and will be followed by a party of boys next month.

Fresh from their recent National Championship success, Charlotte, from Shirley, and Rachel, from the Isle of Wight, are heading for Oklahoma, where they will spend two weeks at the OC Cage Camp run by Dan Hays, an old friend of Stars' senior youth coach Jimmie Guymon.

For Charlotte, it is the first of two big international engagements this summer.

On her return, she will be captaining England's cadet women in Luxembourg in June.

The pair are sponsored by clothing company World Leisurewear.

Solent Stars' under-20 men take part in the Final Four play-off competition this weekend along with Richmond College, Inter-basket London and Birmingham Bullets.