Career
He is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Educated at Melville Senior High School, Capes was a left-arm fast-medium bowler for Western Australia, taking 124 wickets in 40 first-class games, with a best of 6/92. He took five wickets in an innings four times, and ten wickets in a match once.
He also represented an underage Master Control Console side in 1983, and played for the Prime Minister"s XI in 1987.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Administration degree from Curtin University of Technology, Capes worked in the fields of human resource management and business development with Murdoch University, serving as an Associate Director, and Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service. He served on Western Australian cricket selection panel for two seasons between 2003 and 2005 before being appointed the Chief Executive Officer of East Fremantle Football Club in 2005.
He left the club in 2010, and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Subiaco in June 2010.