David Passmore
With more than 20 years of coaching international field hockey under his belt, Passmore has worked with men, women and junior teams as well as regional and club programs. He joined the USA staff after serving as the assistant coach for Ireland’s Women’s National Team and Ireland’s National Development and U-21 Head Coach. He combined his field hockey coaching roles with being an Assistant Professor in Sports Science at Dublin City University, where he specialized in coaching science and talent development.
Prior to that, Passmore was the assistant coach for Great Britain and England from 1999 to 2005. In that time, he was the assistant coach at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, where the team finished eighth. In 2001, he was the assistant coach for the England’s Men’s Team that claimed fifth at the Champions Trophy. He was at the helm of the Ireland’s Men’s National Team from 2004 to 2009, where he increased their world ranking from 25 to 18, a role he performed simultaneously with that of Performance Director.
Passmore was named head coach of the USWNT in 2022, leading his team to qualify for events such as the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and 2026 FIH Hockey World Cup.
Maddie Hinch
A world-renown goalkeeper, Hinch is a decorated athlete who made her debut for Great Britain in 2008. She went on to represent England and Great Britain in 186 combined international caps. She is a two-time Olympic medalist, leading her teams to gold at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. She earned FIH Goalkeeper of the Year awards in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the King of England in 2023. After a 13-year career, Hinch retired in 2023.
In 2017, Hinch founded MH1 Coaching which specialized and focused on goalkeeping specific training. After its inception, it rapidly grew and is now considered the United Kingdom’s most successful goalkeeper coaching company running camps, clinics and coach education worldwide. Hinch served as the assistant coach at the University of Connecticut in the 2023 season before joining the USWNT staff in March 2024.
Bert Remmerswaal
Remmerswaal brings a plethora of coaching experience, most recently as the head coach of the first mens team at Xenios Hockey Club in Amsterdam and staff educator at SportWays hockey camps. Previously, he was assistant coach for the first ladies team at SCHC and assistant coach for the first mens team at Almeerse Hockey Club.
Remmerswaal has also competed at the international level, as a member of the Dutch National Indoor Team from 2009 to 2012. He is also an FIH Level 3 Coach.
David Faulkner
David Faulkner played international hockey from 1982 to 1991, enjoying a successful career that included winning a gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, bronze with the Great Britain team at the 1984 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, and silver at the 1985 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy. David achieved 225 international caps and in 1989 was voted the National Hockey Writers Player of the Year and National League Player of the Year.
Faulkner held the position of Performance Director of England and Great Britain Hockey from 2005 to 2012. He was directly accountable for successfully implementing of the vision and strategy for performance hockey, talent development and coaching in England and GB. During his tenure England men and women climbed from 11th to 4th in the world rankings by 2012.
Faulkner was the Head of Performance for Women’s Professional Game & Para at The Football Association from 2017 to 2021. He was the Team Leader for the Team GB women’s football team competing at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics and oversaw the strategic and operational leadership of all Para Football (Blind, CP, Deaf, Partially Sighted, Power Chair). He was awarded an MBE for services to Sport in June 2021.
Craig Parnham
Craig Parnham moved to the role of High Performance Director in 2022 after spending six years as the Director of Coach Education and Learning. He previously served as head coach of the USWNT. He guided the team to their best FIH World Ranking in team history (5th) and propelled the squad to a 5th place finish at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Other noteworthy accomplishments include gold medals at the 2015 Pan American Games and 2014 Champions Challenge and fourth place at the 2014 Rabobank World Cup.
Parnham played internationally from 2000 to 2008, representing Great Britain and then England. He was named to the squad for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
