Simon van de Loo is an assistant coach for the University of Massachusetts Amherst field hockey program in Amherst, Massachusetts, and entered the role in June 2023. He began his third season with the Minutewomen in 2025 after arriving with an extensive coaching background that included work in the Netherlands and Belgium. Before joining Massachusetts, he served as an assistant coach for the Den Bosch men's team during the 2022 season after also contributing to Den Bosch's indoor program, which reached the playoffs in 2021-22 following a fourth-place finish in 2020-21. In the same period, he was part of a KHC Dragons staff that won a Euro Hockey League Cup in Belgium.
At Massachusetts, van de Loo was on staff for a 2024 season that ended with the program's first NCAA Final Four appearance since 1992 and its fifth overall. The Minutewomen finished 17-6, went 7-0 in Atlantic 10 play, returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2016, and the staff earned NFHCA Northeast Coaching Staff of the Year recognition. Massachusetts players collected multiple national, regional, and conference honors that season, including three major Atlantic 10 awards, and Paula Lorenzini was named A-10 Defensive Player of the Year. In his first year on staff in 2023, the Minutewomen went 13-7 overall and 5-2 in conference play, finished as Atlantic 10 runners-up, and produced three NFHCA All-Region selections along with major conference awards for Hannah de Gast and Myrte van Herwijnen.
