Meet Coach Belle Bressler

Belle joined Peak Field Hockey in November 2025. Prior to Peak, she served as an assistant coach with the Yale field hockey staff beginning in March 2024. In the fall of 2024, she helped lead Yale to within one win of qualifying for the Ivy League Tournament. In her second season, Yale qualified for both the Ivy League Tournament and the NCAA Tournament, and the coaching staff was named the NFHCA Mideast Region Coaching Staff of the Year.

Belle played for the University of Maryland from 2019 to 2022, earning Big Ten regular season championships in 2019 and 2022. During her time with the Terps, the team made three NCAA Tournament appearances, advancing to the NCAA semifinals in both 2021 and 2022. She was a two-time NFHCA National Academic Squad honoree and a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree, graduating with a B.A. in marketing from the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Belle spent the 2023 season at UConn as a graduate student captain playing alongside her sister Julia while earning her master’s degree in sports management.

She also brings USA Field Hockey experience, having competed with the USA U-17 and U-19 national teams from 2016 to 2018. She traveled with the USA team to Uruguay in 2018 and was named to the USA Junior World Cup roster for 2022 in South Africa.

Belle is originally from Leesport, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Berks Catholic High School, where she was a third-team high school All-American in 2018.