{"id":171010,"date":"2025-09-26T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171010\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:09:09","slug":"parramatta-eels-announce-2026-elite-pathways-head-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171010\/","title":{"rendered":"Parramatta Eels Announce 2026 Elite Pathways Head Coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a successful 2025 season that saw all five of our Pathways teams reach the final &#8211; and our Tarsha Gale and Lisa Fiaola Cup sides crowned champions &#8211; the Eels are looking to build on that momentum for the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>2026 Elite Pathways Head Coaches<\/p>\n<p>Jersey Flegg Cup \u2013 Jordan Rankin<br \/>SG Ball Cup \u2013 Mitch Lewis<br \/>Harold Matthews Cup \u2013 Josh Hodgson<br \/>Tarsha Gale Cup \u2013 Ryan Walker<br \/>Lisa Fiaola Cup \u2013 James Reid<\/p>\n<p>Parramatta Eels Head of Pathways, James Shepherd, expressed his confidence in the coaches leading into the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud of what our players and staff achieved in 2025, and we\u2019re building on that with a coaching team that brings experience, energy, and a real commitment to developing young talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese roles are crucial to the future of the club, and we\u2019re looking forward to another big year of hard work, growth, and performance across all our Pathways programs,\u201d added Shepherd.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates as preparations are under way for our 2026 Elite Pathways program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a successful 2025 season that saw all five of our Pathways teams reach the final &#8211; and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-171010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171010","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=171010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}