{"id":27311,"date":"2015-06-13T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27311"},"modified":"2015-06-13T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:22:18","slug":"whirlwind-summer-begins-for-north-vancouver-fastpitch-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27311","title":{"rendered":"Whirlwind summer begins for North Vancouver fastpitch star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsnews.com\/sports\/whirlwind-summer-begins-for-north-vancouver-fastpitch-star-1.1968023\" target=\"_blank\">From the North Shore News<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nDerek Mayson set to suit up for Team Canada at World Championships and Pan Am Games<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nBy Andy Prest \/ North Shore News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>North Vancouver\u2019s Derek Mayson shows off his skills along with his new Team Canada uniform during a recent training session. The 31-year-old will suit up for the national fastpitch team at the World Championships and Pan Am Games this summer.   Photo Paul McGrath, North Shore News<\/p>\n<p>North Vancouver fastpitch star Derek Mayson is about to embark on the biggest summer of his already illustrious career with World Championship and Pan Am Games glory up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian national team player, born and raised in Lynn Valley, is one of the country\u2019s top hitters and pitchers in the windmill sport that was once booming all across Canada but has now become more of a niche pursuit. The way Mayson tells it, however, he didn\u2019t have much choice in the matter when it came time to choose what sport he was going to play. Older brothers Scott and Brian both played fastpitch while parents Ken and Janet were heavily involved too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mayson, now 31, made his national team debut at the age of 22 and this summer will compete in his second Men\u2019s Softball World Championship running June 26 to July 5 in Saskatoon, Sask.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsnews.com\/sports\/whirlwind-summer-begins-for-north-vancouver-fastpitch-star-1.1968023\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete story and view photo at The North Shore News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the North Shore News Derek Mayson set to suit up for Team Canada at World Championships and Pan Am Games By Andy Prest \/ North Shore News North Vancouver\u2019s Derek Mayson shows off his skills along with his new Team Canada uniform during a recent training session. The 31-year-old will suit up for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[94,289,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-27311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-canada","7":"category-players","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-derekmayson","10":"tag-wbsc","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27313,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27311\/revisions\/27313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}