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Jeroen Baart is an international field hockey coach from Belgium. Born in 1985, he is the older brother of Dutch international field hockey player Sander Baart.

Player career

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He started playing for Royal Antwerp Hockey Club in Belgium and moved up from the youth teams to the men's first team in 2000. In 2003 his team promoted to the Honour Division and in its first season immediately played the play off final. Between 2006 and 2007 he played abroad in Australia (Sydney 1st division) and Switzerland for Servette Geneve. Returning to Antwerp for the 2007-2008 season he played the first season of the Euro Hockey League at his own club. The 2010-2011 season he played in the Netherlands for Push Breda in the Overgangsklasse before returning for one final season at his home club Antwerp where he retired from top hockey in 2012, In his younger years he played European Championships for Belgium in the Under 16, Under 18 and Under 21 category.

Coach career

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His coaching career also started at his home club Royal Antwerp Hockey Club in Belgium with several youth teams. He coached there between 2000 and 2010. From 2005 on he was the director of their youth academy. The same job he did for Servette Geneve in the 2006-2007 season in Switzerland.

Between 2010 and 2013 he was also involved in coaching youth in the Netherlands for Push Breda and MHC De Warande.

From 2012 until 2014 he coached for Beerschot THC in Belgium in their youth academy and as the assistant coach for their first men's team in the Honour Division of Belgium.

In the 2014-2015 season he moved on to MHC Oranje Zwart in Eindhoven where he was the assistant coach of the first men's team in the Dutch Hoofdklasse. Winning not only the league but also the Euro Hockey League with his team.

In 2015 he returned to Antwerp as the head coach for the first men's team where he would stay until 2018.

Fron 2019 he became the assistant coach for the first men's team from Oranje-Rood in the Dutch Hoofdklasse, where he would become their head coach in 2022 until 2024. [1]

As of the 2024-2025 season he is the head coach once more in Belgium but now for KHC Dragons in the Honour Division. [2] [3]

Besides his role as a coach in the clubs he was also involved in coaching for the Belgian national federation for their representative teams. Between 2002 and 2008 as the head coach for the boys district teams of the Antwerp region for detecting young talent to be included in U16 national team programmes for Belgium. Between 2010 and 2015 he was involved as either the head coach or the assistant coach for several U16, U18 and U21 national boys teams in Belgium.

Between 2009 and 2015 he was also the performance analyst for the national women's team of Belgium. With this team, now know as the Red Panthers, he qualified and participated for the World Cup (2014), Olympic Games (2012), Hockey World League (2013), Champions Challenge (2x) and the European Championships (4x).

From 2015 on he has been the head coach for the junior national men's team of Belgium (U21). [4] [5] With them he won a silver medal at the junior world cup in Lucknow, India in 2016.

When the Hockey India League restarted in 2024 he was asked to be the head coach for the men's team from Soomra Hockey club, owned by JSW Sports. [6]


References

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  1. ^ https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/ook-al-floreert-oranje-rood-toch-moet-hockeytrainer-baart-wijken-als-coach-ben-je-een-wegwerpproduct~b4e8e83d/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ "Opnieuw trainerswissel bij Dragons: Baart vervangt Smolenaars, die naar India trekt | sporza".
  3. ^ "ION Hockey League - Jeroen Baart nommé coach du Dragons pour les prochaines saisons".
  4. ^ "International Hockey Federation".
  5. ^ "Jeroen Baart".
  6. ^ https://olympics.com/en/news/sardar-singh-rani-rampal-hockey-india-league-soorma-club-team-appointment. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)