Don Pyke

Donald Lachlan Pyke (born 5 December 1968) is an American-born former Australian rules football player, administrator and coach. He played for Claremont in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and West Coast in the Australian Football League (AFL), and later served as senior coach at Claremont and assistant coach at Adelaide. He also served on West Coast's board of directors for a number of years. Pyke was born to Frank Pyke and his wife, Janet, on 5 December 1968, in Bloomington, Illinois. His father, who had previously played for Perth in the WAFL, was teaching at Illinois State University, having moved to the United States in 1966 to attend Indiana University. Pyke's other brothers, Stephen and James Pyke, who later played cricket for South Australia, had been born in Australia. Pyke and his family returned to Western Australia in 1972, after his father accepted a role at the University of Western Australia. The family again moved in 1977, to Canberra, where his father had...