Meet our Coaching Staff

New Heights Head Coach Ahmed Elmaghraby is a decorated hockey player in both Egypt and the United States. During his illustrious career, Ahmed competed for Egypt in two World Cups and for the United States in the 1996 Olympic Games . He has established himself as an elite youth coach on the national level, training players for New Heights in northern NJ and for the US National Indoor team, winners of the 2017 Pan American Games. 

Elmaghraby was named to the Egyptian National Team at the age of 14. In 1984, he helped lead Egypt to a silver medal at the African Games and three years later scored nine goals in the tournament as the youngest player involved. He twice participated at the Hockey World Cup with Egypt. In 1988, he captained Egypt to the Gold Medal at the African Games, finishing as the tournament’s top scorer and was named best player.

In 1993, Ahmed switched to the United States National Team in time to compete in the U.S. Olympics Festival where he won a gold medal and was the top scorer. His team repeated the feat at the 1995 U.S. Olympic Festival and he was again the top scorer. After competing with the American team for three years, he represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. Most recently, Ahmed was the only club level coach selected to play for the US Over 40 National team at the World Masters Cup in Rotterdam, scoring hat tricks in three consecutive games! During his career, Ahmed competed in over 195 International matches for Egypt and the United States combined.