{"id":31868,"date":"2017-12-01T09:52:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31868"},"modified":"2017-12-01T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:52:40","slug":"new-zealand-all-blacks-high-performance-head-don-tricker-confirms-move-to-the-san-diego-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31868","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand All Blacks high performance head Don Tricker confirms move to the San Diego Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/99461202\/all-blacks-high-performance-head-don-tricker-confirms-move-to-the-san-diego-padres\">From Stuff.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By TONY SMITH<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"left_col\">\n<article class=\"story_landing\">Don Tricker says it is &#8220;very humbling&#8221; to become the first New Zealander to work in high performance for a Major League Baseball club, but leaving the All Blacks was a tough decision.<\/p>\n<p>Tricker, a two-time world champion New Zealand Black Sox men&#8217;s softball coach, will become the San Diego Padres&#8217; director of player health and performance after seven\u00a0years as New Zealand Rugby&#8217;s head of high performance.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old was shoulder-tapped by the Padres in late October after doing some consultancy work for them following the MLB club&#8217;s\u00a0visit to\u00a0 New Zealand to study the All Blacks&#8217; winning formula.<\/p>\n<div id=\"99459912\" class=\"landscapephoto\">\n<div class=\"photocaption\">\n<p>Don Tricker is leaving New Zealand Rugby for Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hdivider\">&#8220;I love what I do here &#8211;\u00a0 it&#8217;s a great organisation with great people &#8211; and at the end of the day it was a very difficult decision to leave New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and join the Padres, and it&#8217;s been pretty tough to actually explain.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;But not many New Zealanders get an opportunity to work in a high-level American sport which is incredibly competitive.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/99461202\/all-blacks-high-performance-head-don-tricker-confirms-move-to-the-san-diego-padres\">Click here to continue reading at Stuff.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stuff.co.nz By TONY SMITH Don Tricker says it is &#8220;very humbling&#8221; to become the first New Zealander to work in high performance for a Major League Baseball club, but leaving the All Blacks was a tough decision. Tricker, a two-time world champion New Zealand Black Sox men&#8217;s softball coach, will become the San Diego [&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":[28,35,22],"tags":[836,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-31868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured","7":"category-oceania","8":"category-people","9":"tag-fastball2baseball","10":"tag-newzealandrugby","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31869,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31868\/revisions\/31869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}