Hockey India on Tuesday introduced the appointment of Herman Kruis as the brand new High Performance Director. He will assume the function until September 2024, overseeing the National Junior and Senior packages of Hockey India, together with the Coaches Education Pathway amongst different duties. Kruis who’s from the Netherlands has over twenty years of teaching expertise, and was earlier appointed as Coach of Indian Men and Junior Women’s Hockey Teams to supervise their preparations for the coveted FIH Men’s Junior World Cup and FIH Women’s Junior World Cup respectively.

In his huge teaching expertise, Kruis has labored with Den Bosch girls – a membership based mostly out of the Netherlands – as their Head Coach and through his tenure the crew received the European Cup eight occasions in a row. He was additionally the National Head Coach for the Netherlands Indoor Women’s Hockey Team from 2006 to 2008 and he was additionally the National Head Coach for the Netherlands Outdoor crew from 2008 to 2010.

In his most up-to-date stint, he was the National Head Coach of the Belarus Indoor and Outdoor crew from 2016 to August 2023. Kruis is a licensed FIH Coach-Educator.

“Hockey India is delighted to appoint senior Coach Herman Kruis as the High Performance Director of Hockey India. He will oversee the various programs run by Hockey India including the Junior and Senior programs. I wish Herman the very best as he assumes this new role,” expressed Hockey India President Padma Shri Dr Dilip Tirkey.

Expressing his delight on being appointed because the High Performance Director, Kruis mentioned, “I am looking forward to this new stint with Hockey India. The Indian teams are on the cusp of creating history and I look forward to utilizing my expertise in helping the teams and Hockey India in achieving their goals for this year.”