U.S. Women’s National Indoor Team Staff Named

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Field Hockey is pleased to announce a new staff to lead the U.S. Women’s National Indoor Team. Joep Van Der Coelen has been named the head coach and Maddy Sposito the associate head coach.

“I was very pleased with the interest level and the number of qualified applicants received for this head coach position,” said Nigel Traverso, USA Field Hockey’s Indoor High Performance Manager. “These two individuals stood out above all and is ready to take on this challenge. Congratulations and look forward to the continued success of the program!”

For the past two years, Van der Coelen has been involved as an assistant and/or video performance analyst with the Junior U.S. Men’s National Team and Indoor USWNT. In 2024, he traveled with the junior men’s squads to The Hague in March, followed by the Junior Pan American Championship in Surrey, Canada in July. He was on senior indoor women’s staff at the 2025 Rohrmax Cup, where the team won the event, and 2025 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup, where the squad earned USA’s highest-ever finish at the event.

A native of the Netherlands, he started coaching club in his home country in 2012 and has held various positions through the years. For five years he was involved with multiple national youth division teams at HC Den Bosch, HC Tilburg and KHC Dragons (Belgium). From 2016 to 2019 he coached the MHC DES Ladies 1st. For a two-year stint from 2019 to 2021 he was involved with the MHC Oss Ladies 1st team before leading the THC Hurley Ladies Indoor and Ladies 1st squads in the Dutch Hoofdklasse for a year. More recently, Van der Coelen coached the Were Di Ladies 1st team in the Promotieklasse, which is the second national league and this coming year he will be the head coach of Huizen Ladies 1st in that same Promotieklasse.

Van der Coelen is a HTC3 and HTC 4 certified coach through the Royal Dutch Hockey Association. 

Sposito is no stranger to the USA system having been involved the past ten years. She has acted as a goalkeeper specialist for the men’s and women’s junior national teams, coach at the Junior and Senior Nexus Championships, and video analyst for the junior and senior men, as well as the Indoor USWNT.

From 2015 to 2023, Sposito coached at Rutgers University where she helped led the team to three NCAA appearances (2018, 2021, 2023), a Big Ten Tournament championship (2021), No. 1 National Ranking (2021) and a record 15-game win streak (2023). Through the years she developed both goalkeeper and field players, identified and recruited talent, captured and analyzed team performance data, worked closely with fundraising, and organized summer camps and recruiting clinics.

Sposito took her knowledge overseas in 2022 and was the video analyst at the Royal Wellington THC in Belgium for a year. That was followed by the same role at KHC Leuven in Belgium, where she also added youth coach to her resume.

In 2019, Sposito founded Happy Hockey Goalkeeping which offers specialized goalkeeping camp and clinic series to re-image coaching and training.

Sposito joined the University of Maryland staff in early 2025 as the goalkeeping specialist and video analyst.

Sposito also has experience coaching at the high school and club levels, having been involved with eight different programs or teams.

Sposito played collegiately at Fairfield University from 2009 to 2013 and on the Indoor USWNT from 2011 to 2015 and attended a senior USWNT trial in 2017. She holds a USA Field Hockey Level 1 and 2 Coaching Certification, International Hockey Federation Level I, II and III Certification, with Level IV currently in progress.

Join USA Field Hockey in congratulating Van Der Coelen and Sposito on their new roles within the Indoor USWNT program.