Herring comes to the Enchanted Valley after spending the past three seasons as head coach of the boys lacrosse team at the Blue Ridge School in St. George, Virginia.

Herring, who also served as the Director of Admissions for two years, returned the Barons to prominence during his time at the Blue Ridge School with a 33-10 record. In his first season in 2018, the Barons won the Virginia Independent Conference regular season and tournament championships, qualified for the state tournament for the first time in many years. The next season, the Blue Ridge School won its second consecutive conference and tournament championships, posted a 15-7 record, and advanced to the quarterfinals of the state tournament. While with the Barons, Herring was twice selected as the VIC Coach of the Year.

Prior to the Blue Ridge School, Herring served as head coach of the boys lacrosse team at Noble and Greenough School, which is located in Dedham, Massachusetts, for 16 seasons where he led them to 187 wins and a better than .750 winning percentage. Herring led Nobles to their first Independent School League championship in school history in 2005 and 2006. He was named U.S. Lacrosse ISL Coach of the Year in 2005. He was a recipient of the Thomas S. Resor Award for Coaching Excellence.

He also served as the head boys basketball coach at Nobles for 16 seasons, guiding the team to over 300 wins. He led them to the postseason ISL tournament 12 times, including capturing the 2003 title. He was named the ISL Coach of the Year in 2002-03.

During his time at the Blue Ridge School and Nobles, he has coached numerous U.S. Lacrosse All-Americans, two were named to national academic teams and had dozens of all-conference players. Many of his players that he coached have gone on to play at Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Brown University, Duke University, University of North Carolina, University of Virginia, Williams College, Amherst College, Middlebury College and Wesleyan (Conn.) University.

Herring also was named coach of New England Select Lacrosse League Black Team for U.S. Lacrosse U15 National Championship where his team advanced to the semifinals in 2009 and came in third place a year later. He also served as coach of the NESLL Black Team at every age level from U11 to U19 for eight seasons (2003-11).