BAKER Perry

General
BUSINESS OWNER
He runs Baker Incorporation, a sports clothing company based in United States of America. (baker-incorporation.com, 2020)

FROM AMERICAN FOOTBALL TO RUGBY
He grew up playing as a wide receiver in American football and hoped to take up the sport professionally. After signing for the Philadelphia Eagles in the National Football League [NFL] in 2011, he was released when they discovered a knee injury that he had initially sustained during his time playing for Fairmont State University. He played American football for two years in the Arena Football League before switching to rugby sevens in 2014. "Being a football player and being a rugby player, some things go hand in hand. As far as me being a receiver playing in a football league, I had to read defences, I had to set up the opposite man, things like that. In rugby that all goes hand in hand. But I think you can take a rugby player and have him play football, and it's better than having a football player play rugby. So much is different. It would have been an easier transition that way." (HSBC YouTube, channel, 23 May 2019; cnn.com, 28 Feb 2018; walesonline.co.uk, 23 May 2016)

POLICE WORK
In mid-2017 he worked on an internship with the New York Police Department [NYPD] and their SWAT team in the United States of America. "I went to the police academy in New York and did a ride-along with one of their officers. Then I went to a SWAT unit to see how that was set up, what vehicles they have and which ones they'd use for certain task. I just felt that it was cool with taking people down, kicking down doors. My interest in law enforcement came about due to a court case involving another person where I was called to the witness stand when I was a child." (cnn.com, 28 Feb 2018)

SPEED MERCHANT
He has been timed at 4.34 seconds over 40 yards. (walesonline.co.uk, 23 May 2016)