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Former Division I head coach Amanda Janney Misselhorn has been named Penn State Harrisburg field hockey's inaugural head coach. 

Misselhorn will take charge of a Penn State Harrisburg field hockey program set to begin NCAA competition in the fall of 2024. She brings 14 years of Division I coaching experience with her, having served as head coach at Indiana University for four years after spending a decade as head coach at Temple University. 

Most recently, Misselhorn served as the head coach at nearby Warwick High School after a two-year stint as head coach at Donegal High School. Prior to her time in the high school ranks, she spent four seasons at Indiana after leading the way at Temple for 10 years. 

Once established, Penn State Harrisburg's program will operate at the club level before beginning NCAA Division III competition in the fall of 2024. The program will compete as a member of the conference established from the future merge of the United East and Colonial States Athletic Conferences (CSAC). Misselhorn is set to begin to recruit the school's first class of field hockey student-athletes. The team will field a roster of 25 to 30 players.  

During her time with the Hoosiers, Misselhorn led her squad to the most Big Ten victories in a single season in program history in 2015 and guided IU to back-to-back Big Ten Tournament appearances in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Under Misselhorn's tutelage, standout Kate Barber became just the second player in program history to earn National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) All-America First-Team honors. 

Across 10 seasons at Temple, Misselhorn racked up 114 victories and built the Owls into a program that made 10 straight postseason appearances and achieved success on the national level, including a final ranking of No. 14 in the NFHCA Coaches Poll in 2014. While there, she guided three players to all-America recognition and coached five Atlantic 10 Players of the Year, as well as 16 regional all-Americans. 

Before securing her first head coaching position in the college ranks, Misselhorn contributed as the top assistant at the University of Pennsylvania for two seasons, including a 2004 campaign that saw the Quakers win an Ivy League Championship and garner a top-20 national ranking. She began her college coaching career as an assistant at James Madison University in 2002 and contributed to a squad that made an NCAA Tournament appearance after being ranked as high as No. 4 in the nation that fall. 

Prior to her career in coaching, Misselhorn was a four-year player at Wake Forest University. While there, she tallied 21 goals and 17 assists. She also competed as a member of the USA Indoor National Team and helped the squad win gold at the 2010 Women's National Indoor Championship. 

Misselhorn graduated Cum Laude from Wake Forest in 1999, studied Higher Education Management at UPenn, and is set to earn her teaching certification from Eastern University this May.