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Staff Directory
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
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- Start Date:
- 01/16/2020
Alan Good stepped into his role as Liberty Field Hockey Associate Head Coach in Jan. 2024. Prior to being named associate head coach, Good served as an assistant coach for the Liberty Field Hockey program for four seasons (spring 2021, fall 2021, 2022, 2023).
In four seasons as an assistant coach for Liberty, Good helped the team capture two BIG EAST Championship titles and three BIG EAST regular season titles. During the fall 2021 season, Good and Liberty posted a 20-3 record, won the BIG EAST Tournament crown and advanced all the way to the NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship title game.
Good and Liberty have posted a 72-25 overall record in the last five seasons, while the Liberty staff has been named BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year three times during that span, as well as NFHCA South region Coaching Staff of the Year in fall 2021.
Good and the Lady Flames reached the NCAA Tournament in three straight seasons (fall 2021, 2022, 2023). Liberty received its first-ever at-large bid in fall 2023. The Lady Flames finished with a 17-3 overall record and won the outright BIG EAST regular season title.
Good coached 2021 NFHCA Division I National Player of the Year and Honda Sport Award winner Jill Bolton along with fellow All-Americans Azul Iritxity Irigoyen, Bethany Dykema, Daniella Rhodes, Jodie Conolly and Reagan Underwood as well as 27 All-BIG EAST selections.
Dykema was recently added to the U.S. Women’s National Team and played for Team USA in early December, before being selected for the Hockey5s World Cup in Oman in January. Good has also coached Reagan Underwood, who is competed for the U.S. U-21 Women’s National Team at the 2023 Junior World Cup in Chile.
In addition to his experience with Liberty Field Hockey, Good was named an assistant coach for the USA Field Hockey U16 Women’s National Team in Nov. 2023. He was selected as an assistant coach for the Four Nations Tournaments in Valkenswaard, Netherlands in both 2024 and 2025, helping the side achieve victories over European powerhouses Germany and Belgium. He has also coached within the USA’s Olympic development pipeline as a U16 Nexus Championships head coach in 2022 and 2024 and at regional high-performance centers in Richmond and Norfolk.
Good also has a presence with USA Field Hockey as a coach educator, responsible for delivery of its Level 1 & 2 coaching education courses nationwide. Good holds a Level 3 coaching certification with FIH recommendation from USA Field Hockey. He also holds Level 2 coaching certifications from USA Field Hockey and Hockey Ireland, as well as Level 1 from Hockey Ireland.
A native of Kinsale, Ireland, Good spent four years (2017-20) in Williamsburg and Charlottesville, Va., serving as the Coaching Director at Focus Field Hockey and as the Varsity Field Hockey Head Coach at The Covenant School. While with Focus Field Hockey, Good helped to quadruple the club’s membership while coaching more than 50 NCAA recruits.
While at The Covenant School, Good led the team to a state championship runner-up finish (2017), semi-final berth (2018) and quarter-final appearance (2019). The Covenant Eagles were Blue Ridge Conference champions in 2018 and 2019, and Good earned Coach of the Year recognition in both of those seasons.
Prior to moving to the United States, Good served in head coach and assistant coach roles with Munster Hockey in Cork, Ireland from 2012-17. In those roles, he coached a variety of elite high-performance U16 and U18 regional teams as part of the Irish junior national team pipeline. More than a dozen players Good coached went on to be selected for Ireland U16 and U18 boys and girls programs.
Good also served as head coach for a variety of Division I adult club teams and high school varsity teams, winning seven provincial titles along the way.
Good obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics and sociology from University College Cork in 2010. The Ireland native played Munster Division I field hockey for UCC Men’s Hockey Club and Ashton Hockey Club. He represented the province of Munster in the junior inter-provincial tournament in 2011 and 2012.
Prior to beginning his coaching career, Good worked as a sports journalist from 2004-13 and wrote for several national and international newspapers.
He is married to Susan Good (formerly Krakoff), who hails from Akron, Ohio. The couple has been married since June 2016 and have one daughter, Julia, born in 2020.
