Tjerk van Herwaarden serves as Head Coach for Harvard University's Field Hockey program in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tjerk van Herwaarden, who won five national championships in seven seasons on the coaching staff at Maryland, took over as head coach at Harvard in 2012, and has quickly led the program to new heights, winning five Ivy League titles (2016, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2025) and earning five NCAA Tournament berths, including trips to the NCAA Semifinals in 2021 and 2025. van Herwaarden is 166-69 at Harvard with a 70-21 mark in Ivy League play. He enters his 14th season with the Crimson in 2026.
