Hockey India on Tuesday introduced the appointment of Herman Kruis as the brand new Excessive Efficiency Director. He’ll assume the position until September 2024, overseeing the Nationwide Junior and Senior applications of Hockey India, together with the Coaches Training 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 Males and Junior Ladies’s Hockey Groups to supervise their preparations for the coveted FIH Males’s Junior World Cup and FIH Ladies’s Junior World Cup respectively.

In his huge teaching expertise, Kruis has labored with Den Bosch women – a membership primarily based out of the Netherlands – as their Head Coach and through his tenure the workforce received the European Cup eight instances in a row. He was additionally the Nationwide Head Coach for the Netherlands Indoor Ladies’s Hockey Crew from 2006 to 2008 and he was additionally the Nationwide Head Coach for the Netherlands Out of doors workforce from 2008 to 2010.

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

“Hockey India is delighted to nominate senior Coach Herman Kruis because the Excessive Efficiency Director of Hockey India. He’ll oversee the assorted applications run by Hockey India together with the Junior and Senior applications. I want Herman the easiest as he assumes this new position,” expressed Hockey India President Padma Shri Dr Dilip Tirkey.

Expressing his delight on being appointed because the Excessive Efficiency Director, Kruis stated, “I’m wanting ahead to this new stint with Hockey India. The Indian groups are on the cusp of making historical past and I look ahead to using my experience in serving to the groups and Hockey India in attaining their targets for this yr.”