Intensive Indoor World Cup expertise shapes the brand new teaching lineup set to information the lads’s and girls’s nationwide indoor groups by way of to the 2029 Indoor World Cup.
Former males’s indoor nationwide coach Brett Herrington and former nationwide captain Jonathan Stebbings will lead the ladies’s and males’s groups, with Hockey Australia and the Hockey Australia Indoor Committee right this moment asserting the recent appointments.
Having not too long ago led the Males’s Nationwide Indoor Group to sixth on the 2025 Indoor World Cup, Brett Herrington will now deliver his in depth expertise and management to the Ladies’s Nationwide Indoor Group, as they set their sights on the 2029 World Cup.
Jonathan, who represented Australia at two Indoor World Cups in 2003 and 2007, will hyperlink up together with his former teammate and now Assistant Coach Matthew Hotchkis, who has represented Australia at 4 Indoor World Cups, together with the 2025 version below Brett.
The boys’s nationwide teaching appointments are the newest within the duo’s teaching careers, which features a bronze as Assistant Coach of the Australian girls’s group on the 2023 Azlan Shah Event and expertise within the German and Scottish leagues for Jonathan.
Matthew takes on the position having been an Assistant Coach of the Hockey One League’s Canberra Chill since 2022 and with over a decade’s price of expertise in ACT’s Senior Indoor Program.
Hockey Australia extends its honest gratitude to Emma McLeish, who resigned as Head Coach of the Ladies’s Indoor Nationwide Group, after guiding the facet to ninth place on the Indoor World Cup.
Emma stepped as much as the Head Coach place in 2024, simply months earlier than the World Cup, accelerating her teaching expertise after retiring from worldwide competitors in 2023.
A five-time World Cup athlete and coach, Emma is popping her consideration to a profession and commitments outdoors of hockey.
The Hockey Australia Indoor Committee will start recruitment for the Ladies’s Assistant Coach place shortly.
Ladies’s Indoor Nationwide Head Coach – Brett Herrington
Profession highlights:
• Head Coach, Australian Males’s Indoor Group – 2025 FIH Indoor World Cup
• Chief in Queensland indoor improvement throughout junior and senior ranges
• Contributor to nationwide indoor high-performance and planning frameworks
Males’s Indoor Nationwide Head Coach – Jonathan Stebbings
Profession highlights:
• Captain, Australian Indoor Group (1995–2007); Indoor World Cup in 2007
• Teaching expertise in Scottish and German leagues
• Home teaching roles with Hawthorn, Mentone (PL Ladies), and Waverley (PL)
• Head Coach, Australian Ladies’s Group – 2023 Azlan Shah Event (Bronze)
• Nationwide expertise improvement contributor throughout a number of states
Males’s Indoor Nationwide Assistant Coach – Matthew Hotchkis
Profession highlights:
• Represented Australia at 4 FIH Indoor World Cups, most not too long ago in 2025
• Assistant Coach, Canberra Chill (Hockey One) since 2022
• Coach and participant, Central CL1 Males (Premiership 2022; Assistant Coach 2023–2024)
• Over a decade of management in ACT’s Senior Indoor Program
