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
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“There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)