Many sports leagues, sportswriting associations, and other organizations confer "Coach of the Year" awards.
Some of these are:
- AFCA Coach of the Year (American football) (US)
- Annis Stukus Trophy (Canadian Football League)
- Clair Bee Coach of the Year (NCAA Division I basketball) (US)
- Henry Iba Award (NCAA basketball) (US)
- IHJUK Coach of the Year Trophy (Ice Hockey Journalists UK)
- Jack Adams Award (National Hockey League) (Canada & US)
- Major Indoor Soccer League (US) Coach of the Year
- Major League Lacrosse (US) Coach of the Year
- Major League Soccer (US) Coach of the Year
- Naismith College Coach of the Year (NCAA Division I basketball) (US)
- National Basketball Association (US) Coach of the Year
- National Basketball League (Australia) Coach of the Year
- National Football League (US) Coach of the Year
- United States Olympic Committee Coach of the Year
- Women's National Basketball Association (US) Coach of the Year
- USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards Coach of the Year
Famous quotes containing the words coach and/or year:
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“... breaks ancestrally each year into
Regenerate union. Let it always be there.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)