University of Massachusets Athletics
Massachusetts Field Hockey Welcomes Assistant Coach Simon van de Loo
June 07, 2023 | Field Hockey
Sixteen-year coaching veteran joins Minutewomen staff ahead of 2023 season.
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts field hockey and head coach Barb Weinberg announced that Simon van de Loo has joined the program as an assistant coach. van de Loo brings 16 years of coaching experience to the Minutewomen, having most recently spent the 2022 season as an assistant coach for the Den Bosch men's field hockey team.
"I am extremely excited to welcome Simon to our UMass Field Hockey staff," Weinberg said. "He brings a wealth of knowledge, having coached at the highest levels in the Netherlands. His enthusiasm and passion for hockey strategy and player development will make an immediate impact within our program and we're excited to get to work!"
With van de Loo on staff, Den Bosch qualified for the playoffs of the 2021-22 indoor season while finishing fourth in the 2020-21 season. In 2021-22, he also aided the KHC Dragons to a Euro Hockey League (EHL) Cup in Belgium.
Prior to his role with Den Bosch, van de Loo spent three years as the head coach of the HCAS men's field hockey team. There, he guided the team to a promotion into the Overgangsklasse, the third level of the Dutch field hockey system.
While at the helm of the HCAS club, van de Loo also was the head coach of the Hockey Academy Limburg from 2016 to 2020, where he educated and trained players of both the boys and girls U12, U14 and U16 regional selection teams.
van de Loo also took on the responsibilities of recruitment and organizing clinics, camps and tournaments as the head of Marcel Balkestein Hockeyschool from 2015 to 2020, as well as the hockey trainer for Matchplay in 2012-14.
For eight years (2007-15), van de Loo was the head coach for the top youth teams at Oranje-Zwart, coaching the boys' and girls' U12 team, the boys' and girls' U14 team and the girls U16 team.
van de Loo also worked for B2Bpro as a supervisor and a sales agent for the last three years.
As a player, van de Loo captained the HCAS club team from 2012 to 2017 after spending a season with the B.H.V. Push, where he trained at Oranje-Zwart and B.H.V. Push. He also competed for nine years with the MHC Oranje-Zwart and Dutch National Teams. He membered the U12, U14, U16 and U18 boys' teams, while also playing with the U16, U18 and U21 Dutch National team. With the U18 boys' team, he aided the team to a second-place finish. He also was a member of the EHL KO4 men's team, helping the team to its third national championship.
van de Loo earned his Bachelor's in Sport Marketing and Sport Management from Johan Cruyff Institute in 2023 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He earned his first-year transcript in 2012 in Commercial Economics, Sport Marketing and Sport Management at Johan Cruyff, after attending Pleincollege Sint-Joris in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on a pre-university education direction in Economics and Society.
"I am extremely excited to welcome Simon to our UMass Field Hockey staff," Weinberg said. "He brings a wealth of knowledge, having coached at the highest levels in the Netherlands. His enthusiasm and passion for hockey strategy and player development will make an immediate impact within our program and we're excited to get to work!"
With van de Loo on staff, Den Bosch qualified for the playoffs of the 2021-22 indoor season while finishing fourth in the 2020-21 season. In 2021-22, he also aided the KHC Dragons to a Euro Hockey League (EHL) Cup in Belgium.
Prior to his role with Den Bosch, van de Loo spent three years as the head coach of the HCAS men's field hockey team. There, he guided the team to a promotion into the Overgangsklasse, the third level of the Dutch field hockey system.
While at the helm of the HCAS club, van de Loo also was the head coach of the Hockey Academy Limburg from 2016 to 2020, where he educated and trained players of both the boys and girls U12, U14 and U16 regional selection teams.
van de Loo also took on the responsibilities of recruitment and organizing clinics, camps and tournaments as the head of Marcel Balkestein Hockeyschool from 2015 to 2020, as well as the hockey trainer for Matchplay in 2012-14.
For eight years (2007-15), van de Loo was the head coach for the top youth teams at Oranje-Zwart, coaching the boys' and girls' U12 team, the boys' and girls' U14 team and the girls U16 team.
van de Loo also worked for B2Bpro as a supervisor and a sales agent for the last three years.
As a player, van de Loo captained the HCAS club team from 2012 to 2017 after spending a season with the B.H.V. Push, where he trained at Oranje-Zwart and B.H.V. Push. He also competed for nine years with the MHC Oranje-Zwart and Dutch National Teams. He membered the U12, U14, U16 and U18 boys' teams, while also playing with the U16, U18 and U21 Dutch National team. With the U18 boys' team, he aided the team to a second-place finish. He also was a member of the EHL KO4 men's team, helping the team to its third national championship.
van de Loo earned his Bachelor's in Sport Marketing and Sport Management from Johan Cruyff Institute in 2023 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He earned his first-year transcript in 2012 in Commercial Economics, Sport Marketing and Sport Management at Johan Cruyff, after attending Pleincollege Sint-Joris in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on a pre-university education direction in Economics and Society.
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