\n Phil Merriman will officially commence in the role on November 1\n <\/p>\n
\n By westcoasteagles.com.au\n <\/p>\n
The West Coast Eagles are excited to announce Phil Merriman has joined the Club as the AFL program\u2019s new High Performance Manager.<\/p>\n
Highly experienced and respected across the AFL industry, Merriman has spent the past five seasons at Fremantle, following previous roles at Melbourne and Hawthorn.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thrilled Phil has joined the West Coast Eagles at an important phase of our on-field development,\u201d General Manager Football Gavin Bell said today.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhil brings a wealth of AFL experience with a proven track record of working with young players to reach their physical potential and consistently compete at the highest level.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis results leading an AFL high performance program made him an outstanding candidate amongst an impressive field of applicants.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhil\u2019s expertise will help us build on the excellent platform Mat Inness established for our players over the past two years before he returned to Melbourne for family reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to welcoming Phil and his family to the West Coast Eagles as we prepare for an important pre-season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Merriman commenced his career in the AFL industry in 2011 at the Hawks and has been mentored by world-class high performance leaders Darren Burgess, Andrew Russell and John Quinn.<\/p>\n
He holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Exercise Science from Edith Cowan University and BA in Exercise Spots Science from Deakin University.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy family and I were planning to head interstate and then this golden opportunity came up to work with this group and this Club. It was something that I just couldn\u2019t pass up,\u201d Merriman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat excites me is the ability to work with a young and up-and-coming group who have clearly got a great athletic profile.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, from the moment I met with Andrew McQualter, Gavin Bell, John Worsfold and Don Pyke there was great alignment from the top down. They\u2019re the two big things that really strike me coming into the footy Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has clearly been some great work done from Mat and that\u2019s not to be underestimated. Having a good relationship with Mat and having similar philosophies, it\u2019s a great entry into the Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving a good understanding of what the players have been doing is a really good stepping stone to jump into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Merriman will begin familiarising himself with West Coast\u2019s high performance program next week before officially commencing on November 1, prior to the Eagles\u2019 first-to-four-year players\u2019 returning to training on Monday, November 10. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Merriman will officially commence in the role on November 1 By westcoasteagles.com.au The West Coast Eagles are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-137371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}