Life just got busier for multiple Whanganui world champion lawn bowler Peter Belliss.
Belliss was last week named head coach of the New Zealand Blackjacks and his first mission will be to oversee all New Zealand's allocated slots are filled for the World Championships on the Gold Coast in Australia in May-June of 2020.
Belliss returned to his hometown for a quieter life after 16 years away involved in his chosen sport at the highest level.
However, he was lured back to the sports highest level as one of Bowls New Zealand's seven assistant coaches in 2013 before he was added to the national selection panel in 2014.
He has held both those roles until today and in fact continues as national selector alongside Phil Skogland junior and Marlene Castle, both also former international bowlers.