TOWSON, Md. – Announced by head coach E.A. Jackson, the Towson University field hockey staff has added Jason Mulder as an assistant coach.
 
Mulder hails from Cape Town, South Africa and began his coaching career in 2009. Most recently he was a volunteer assistant at Syracuse before coming to Maryland to volunteer with the Tigers.
 
Internationally, Mulder was the head coach of the South African U17 team from 2015-2017 and was the South African men's team trainer and technical analyst. He coached youth programs at the Western Cape Sports School and in the South African Catholic Bishop's Conference.
 
He was the head of hockey at Western Cape Sports School where he developed players for national programs and implemented a new program beginning in 2010. While working in the Bishop's Conference he was the technical director for ages 6 to 18 years old. He coached the U18 team to two consecutive KO titles in 2013 and 2014.
 
In 2015 he coached the state school boy's U19 team to first place, a conference championship and KO title. His junior and men's pro series teams won titles in 2016 and in 2017 he repeated with his U19 team for another KO championship.
 
Mulder graduated from ETA College in South Africa with a concentration in coaching science, and is also the Chief Operating Officer of Sportways SA. Sportways is one of the largest organizers of field hockey clinics in the world, based out of South Africa, which hosts thousands of players in camps each year across the globe.