NICK CONWAY

Updated on November 19, 2009

Nick Conway is the Head Coach of the USA Field Hockey Men's National Team.

In 2005, Nick Conway was offered a challenging opportunity: Help revitalize men’s hockey in the USA and help elevate the U.S. men’s national team to international contender.

He gladly accepted the challenge.

“I am delighted to be given this opportunity with the USA Men’s High Performance Program,” said Conway on his new appointment. “This is an exciting change to work with a group of very talented athletes. We will have a very clear and determined vision of where we want to go, what we want to achieve and how we are going to achieve it.”

After previously serving as the U.S. women’s assistant coach from 2003-04 and acting head coach from 2004-05, Conway accepted the new position as coach of the U.S. men at both the junior and senior levels.

Conway inherited a U.S. men’s program that had struggled to climb up the international standings. The team had placed fifth in the 1999 and 2003 Pan American Games and dropped to 7th at the 2004 Pan American Cup.

But with Conway at the helm and under a new structure developed by USA Field Hockey Technical Director of High Performance Terry Walsh, USA Field Hockey initiated the Men’s High Performance Center program and National Championship Tournament in 2006. The programs proved to be an immediate success in attracting and retaining talented players.

“The USA Men’s program has had significant difficulties in achieving success on the international scene,” said Walsh. “We have to reset a structure which will enable us to have a much better contribution from different parts of the country. We must have players from regions all around the USA contributing. There is no reason why we can’t be much more successful within the Pan American region at the very least. However we must have a performance program towards which our top performers can aspire. Nick Conway is the integral link in this whole program.”

With the resurfacing of the AstroTurf field at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. in early 2006, Conway has reestablished the centralized training program for the U.S. men and the revived dedication in the U.S. men paid off with a dominant best-ofthree series victory over Mexico to qualify for the 2007 Pan American Games and a four-game sweep of Pan Am rival Trinidad & Tobago in the spring of 2007. Further demonstration of the team’s newfound respect was its invitation to the China Four Nation Tournament in May of 2007.

While Conway continues to meet the challenge of establishing the U.S. men as international contenders, there is still some daunting challenges ahead. We believe that we have achieved what we should have achieved thus far,” says Conway. “But our true challenges is ahead of us at the Pan American Games and beyond.”

A member of the USA Field Hockey staff since 2003, Conway was named head coach of the U.S. men's team in August 2005. He previously served as the women’s national team assistant coach and served as acting women’s head coach from May 2004 to March 2005. He guided the U.S. men to a spot in the 2007 Pan American Games and helped develop the growing Men's High Performance Center program.

Coaching Career:

• Acting head coach USA Women’s National Team, March 2004-May 2005
• Assistant Coach, USA Women’s National Team, 2003-3004
• Associate Head Coach Univ. of North Carolina, 2001-03
• Assistant Coach Univ. of North Carolina, 1995-01
• NCAA I National Championships, Univ. of North Carolina, 1995, 1996 and 1997

• England National Team (9 caps)
• England Junior World Cup Team, 1992
• Birmingham Univ. National Champions, 1992
• Teddington Hockey Club