\u201cRugby has given me so much throughout my life, and I\u2019m looking forward to giving back.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time for New Zealand Rugby, with outstanding people joining the organisation in the high performance space. To work alongside Don Tricker, Mike Collins and so many talented people across the game is something I am genuinely excited by.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look forward to developing systems where players, coaches, referees and support staff can all thrive. Sustainable success doesn\u2019t happen by accident. It is built over time through strong relationships, clear systems, quality decision-making and a shared commitment to continuous improvement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis role is about young boys and girls coming through community rugby, through our age-grade teams and being the best in the world in our national teams. That\u2019s what inspires me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tricker said: \u201cConrad brings an exceptional combination of lived experience, intellect and credibility. We are delighted to have recruited someone of Conrad\u2019s standing and experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has seen all parts of the New Zealand rugby system through his own development and understands what excellence looks like at the highest level.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis role is about strengthening the entire men\u2019s high performance pathway, from talent identification and development through to our national teams. Ultimately, we are developing people that our national teams want to pick and Conrad\u2019s ability to take people with him makes him exceptionally well placed to lead this work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRugby has given me so much throughout my life, and I\u2019m looking forward to giving back. \u201cIt\u2019s an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7022,23458,123636,75549,78,6371,111,139,69,86298,12971,205,6327,16189,213,7187,102,377,80],"class_list":["post-514946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-conrad","tag-cupwinning","tag-highperformance","tag-in","tag-joins","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-nzr","tag-returned","tag-role","tag-rugby","tag-smith","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-with","tag-world","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}