Club Director/GK Director: Barb Weinberg

Head Coach, University of Massachusetts Field Hockey (2016-Present)
U21 National Team Assistant Coach (2019-Present)

Coaching Experience
USA Field Hockey Level 2 Coach
Wake Forest University, Associate Head Coach (2014-2016)
American University, Assistant Coach (2013-2014)
University of Maryland, Assistant Coach (2010-2013)
University of Iowa, Volunteer Assistant Coach (2008)
Former Owner/Director of Freedom HKY Club (Maryland)

Playing Experience
Member of USA Women’s National Team (2005-2010)
University of Iowa (2000-2005)

Holly Turbill

Assistant Coach, University of Massachusetts Field Hockey (2013-Present)

Turbill, who most recently served dual head coaching roles at the Surbiton Hockey Club in Long Ditton, Surrey, England, joined the University of Massachusetts in June of 2023. 

At Surbiton, Turbill was the U-16 Boys Head Coach and the U-18 Girls Talent Academy Head Coach. In those roles she served as the performance coach for the U-16 Boys, coaching high caliber players, including five junior international players. She helped the team reach the semifinals of the National Cup (TBC). For the U-18 Girls, she worked alongside Giselle Ansley to create the performance environment with England Hockey to develop junior internationals.

Also at Surbiton, Turbill served as the Head of Performance Sport/Head of Hockey since September of 2022. In that role, she was charged with running the hockey program for all ages including sport performance and participation. She created an inclusive environment and a learning culture, encouraging players to reflect on performances and behaviors while pushing to achieve their best. She mentored all athletes by offering one-on-one support with regards to scheduling, academics and other external issues. She also introduced a scholar’s program which included strength and conditioning and technical skill sessions in all sports. This season, her program has led Surbiton to three national hockey titles, five hockey players being selected for England, the No. 1 ranking among tennis schools and national titles in rowing, gymnastics and skiing.

Prior to Surbiton, Turbill worked at Culford School as the Assistant Director of Sport/Head of Hockey/Head of Girls Soccer from September 2018 – April 2022. She also had roles with Bury (2018) as the Burytown FC U-18 boys lead soccer coach and the Bury Field Hockey Club First Team men’s/women’s lead technical/tactical coach.

Turbill was the Shrewsbury School Head of Girls Games (2017-18) and the Brighton College Head of Girls Games and Head of Hockey (2016-17). She began her career at the Milton Abby School as the Head of Hockey/Soccer and the assistant Housemistress, Damer Boys House (2014-16).

Turbill attended Denstone College and then the University of Buckingham. Her playing career has included being an Investec National Premier League Hockey Player (Cannock) as well as a Division 1 South Hockey Player (Slough). In soccer, she played for Coventry City, Ipswich Town and Birmingham City Ladies FC. She also was an England Rounders player.

 

Simon van de Loo

Assistant Coach, University of Massachusetts Field Hockey (2023-Present)

Simon van de Loo has joined the program as an assistant coach in June of 2023. 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.

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.