The Herb Brooks Coach of the Year is an annual award given out at the conclusion of the

National Collegiate Hockey Conference The National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) is an NCAA men's Division I hockey conference formed on July 9, 2011. The league began playing for the 2013–14 season, the same season that the Big Ten Conference began competition, as a combina ...

regular season to the best coach in the conference as voted by the coaches of each NCHC team. The Coach of the Year was first awarded in 2014 and is a successor to the CCHA Coach of the Year which was discontinued after the conference dissolved due to the 2013–14 NCAA conference realignment. It is named in honor of

Herb Brooks Herbert Paul Brooks Jr. (August 5, 1937 – August 11, 2003) was an American ice hockey player and coach. His most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team at Lake Placid. At the Games, Brooks' ...

who, though having died ten years prior to the NCHC beginning play, coached founding member

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for one season. He is more famously known for coaching

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to their first three

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in the 1970s as well as leading

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to the 1980 gold medal. A Herb Brooks Award is given out annually by the

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Award winners

Winners by school

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Award winners

Winners by school

See also

References

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