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Head Coach Rutger Wiese
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Wiese
Rutger Wiese begins his fifth season as the head field hockey coach at IUP after leading the
team to three consecutive appearances in the NCAA tournament including
two trips to the national semifinals.
A year ago, IUP won 13 of its final
14 regular season contests and then avenged a loss to Shippensburg in
the PSAC playoffs with a 2-1 win over the Raiders in the NCAA
quarterfinals.
Despite holding a significant
statistical edge over Bloomsburg in the semifinals, the Crimson Hawks
came out on the short end of a 2-0 score to finish the season with a
record of 15-6.
In 2005, IUP posted a record of 14-7, losing to PSAC rival
Bloomsburg in the NCAA quarterfinals. In the final week of the
regular season, IUP defeated No. 1 Shippensburg as well as Bloomsburg
and Kutztown to secure a spot in the PSAC and nationals tournaments.
The previous season, IUP finished
with a school record 18 wins
against only five losses and captured its first ever victory in the NCAA
tournament, a 4-2 win over Shippensburg that put IUP in the national
semifinals.
Wiese has a four-year
record of 58-24 and has led IUP into the Pennsylvania State Athletic
Conference playoffs each season. In 2003 he took over the program
after the team started 0-4 and led IUP to 11 wins in its final
17 games.
Wiese also coached
the IUP lacrosse team in 2004 and 2005 before turning his focus
exclusively to field hockey last fall.
In February 2006,
Wiese served as a special assistant to the United States men's field
hockey team as it prepared for the Pan-American Games in hopes of
qualifying for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. His duties included
running segments of practice, analyzing game film in staff meetings and
communicating strategies during games.
Wiese came to IUP
from Mercersburg Academy, where he was the head field hockey coach.
Prior to coming to the United States, Wiese was the interim coach of the
Alliance women’s team in the Dutch national league in his native The
Netherlands.
He was also an
assistant coach for the under-17 national team and the head coach of the
District North Netherlands team.
Wiese was a star
field hockey player in Europe for 11 seasons, retiring in the summer of
2003 after playing for Bloemendaal in The Netherlands. His teams won
national championships in 1999 and 2000 and were European champions in
2001.
A 2000 graduate of
Hogeschool Nederland with a bachelor’s degree in business and real
estate management, Wiese also has extensive experience organizing field
hockey camps and distributing equipment across the United States. He
owns field hockey camps in 10 locations nationwide.
Among the camps he
has served as head coach are ones at the University of Connecticut,
James Madison, Stanford, Cal-Berkeley and San Jose State.
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