The USOC

Coach of the Year Many sports leagues, sportswriting associations, and other organizations confer "Coach of the Year" awards. In some sports — including baseball and association football — the award is called the "Manager of the Year" award. Some of the ...

awards are given annually by the

United States Olympic Committee The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States. It was founded in 1895 as the United States Olympic Committee, and is headquartered in Col ...

to the top coaches in

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and

Paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

sport Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, ...

s. One award is given in each of five categories: *National Coach *Developmental Coach *Paralympic Coach *Volunteer Coach *Doc Councilman Science Award Nominees for the awards are selected by the national governing bodies for Olympic, Paralympic, and Pan American Games sports and their affiliated sports organizations. Members of the

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vote for the top five nominees in each category. Category winners are then selected by a special USOC panel.

USOC Olympic Coach of the Year winners

*1996 –

Tara VanDerveer Tara Ann VanDerveer (born June 26, 1953) is an American basketball coach who has been the head women's basketball coach at Stanford University since 1985. Designated the Setsuko Ishiyama Director of Women's Basketball, VanDerveer led the Stanf ...

, U.S. Olympic Women's Basketball Coach *1997 – Frank Carroll, Olympic Figure Skating Coach *1998 – Ben Smith, U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Coach *1999 – Chris Carmichael, Cycling Coach *2000 –

Richard Quick Richard Walter Quick (January 31, 1943 – June 10, 2009) was the head coach of the women's swim team at Stanford University, from 1988 through 2005. He was a coach for the United States Olympic swimming team for six Olympics—1984, 1988, 1992 ...

, U.S. Olympic Women's Swimming Coach *2001-02 – Pete del’Guidice, U.S. Snowboarding Coach *2003 – Lloyd Woodhouse, USA Shooting National Team Coach *2004 –

Mike Candrea John Michael Candrea (born August 29, 1955) is the former head softball coach at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He was the head coach of the United States women's national softball team in 2004, when Team USA won a gold medal, and ...

, USA Softball Women's National Team Coach *2005 –

Eddie Reese Edwin Charles Reese (born July 23, 1941) is an American college and Olympic swimming coach, and a former college swimmer. Reese serves as the head coach of the Texas Longhorns men's swimming and diving team that represents the University of Texa ...

, USA Swimming Men's National Team Coach *2006 – Bud Keene, U.S. Snowboarding Coach *2007 –

Guy Baker Guy Baker was the head coach for the United States women's national water polo team competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. He is now the Director Of Olympic Development of USA Water Polo. Baker had guided the team to a silver medal in the 2 ...

, USA Water Polo National Team Coach *2008 – Hugh McCutcheon, USA Men's Volleyball National Team Coach *2009 –

Bob Bradley Robert Frank Bradley (born March 3, 1958) is an American soccer coach who is the head coach and sporting director of Toronto FC. A native of New Jersey and graduate of Princeton University, Bradley coached in the American college game and Maj ...

, U.S. Men's Soccer Team Coach *2010 –

Brian Shimer Brian Shimer (born April 20, 1962) is an American bobsledder who competed from 1985 to 2002. Competing in five Winter Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the four-man event at Salt Lake City in 2002. Shimer also won three bronze medals at the F ...

, U.S. Men's Bobsled Head Coach *2011 – Rick Bower, U.S. Snowboarding Halfpipe Coach *2012 –

Adam Krikorian Adam Krikorian (born July 22, 1974) is an American water polo coach and the head coach of the United States women's national water polo team. He coached the team to gold medals at the 2012 Olympic Games, 2016 Olympic Games, and 2020 Olympic Games. ...

, U.S. Women's National Waterpolo Head Coach *2013 – Erik Flora, Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Club Head Coach *2014 – Skogen Sprang, U.S. Slopestyle Skiing Team Head Coach *2015 –

Craig Parnham Craig Parnham (born 13 July 1973 in Bridgnorth, Shropshire) is an English field hockey defender and coach. He represented Great Britain in two Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2004, and played club hockey for Stourport, Bridgnorth and Cannock. Pa ...

, U.S. Women's National Field Hockey Team coach *Co-2016 –

Geno Auriemma Luigi "Geno" Auriemma (born March 23, 1954) is an Italian-born American college basketball coach and, since 1985, the head coach of the University of Connecticut Connecticut Huskies women's basketball, Huskies women's basketball team. , he has le ...

, U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team coach *Co-2016 –

Aimee Boorman Aimee Boorman (born Aimee Banghart; March 27, 1973) is an American artistic gymnastics coach. She coached 2016 Olympic champion and 2013-2015 world champion Simone Biles. She was the USA women's gymnastics team head coach at the 2016 Rio Olympics ...

, U.S. Olympic Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Team *2017 – Bill Zadick, U.S. Freestyle World Wrestling Team Coach *2018 - Jason Cork, U.S. National Cross-Country Ski Team coach *2019 -

KiSik Lee Kisik Lee (born 2 July 1957 in Seoul) is the National Head Coach of the US Olympic Archery Training Program, and is considered to be the first person to bring the scientific method to archery training for the US. Lee used to be the head coach of ...

, U.S. Olympic Archery coach *2020 - Greg Massialas, USA Fencing

USOC Developmental Coach of the Year winners

*1996 – Jeff Shaffer, Diving - University of Southern California *1997 –

Dianne Holum Dianne Mary Holum (born May 19, 1951) is a retired American speed skater. In 1966, Holum became the youngest person to compete in the world speed skating championships. Next year she won bronze at the World Allround Championships. At the age of ...

Speedskating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating ...

*1998 –

Mike Stafford ''An American Affair'', also known as ''Boy of Pigs'', is a 2008 American independent period drama film directed by William Olsson and starring Gretchen Mol, James Rebhorn, Noah Wyle, Perrey Reeves, Mark Pellegrino, and Cameron Bright. It was r ...

, Boxing - Millvale Golden Gloves Gym *1999 – Tom Healy, Northbrook (ILL.) Speedskating Club *2000 – Fred Zimny, USA Luge *2001-02 – Mike Eaves, U.S. National Under-18 Hockey Team *2003 – Bob Fraley, Fresno State University Track and Field *2004 –

Dwayne Miller Dwayne St Aubyn Miller (born 14 July 1987) is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He has won more than 30 caps for the Jamaica national football team. Miller was also part of the squad that reached the final and won th ...

, Norfolk Real Deal Track Club *2005 – Tammy Gambill, U.S Figure Skating *2006 – Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson, U.S. Figure Skating *2007 – Paul Yetter,

USA Swimming USA Swimming is the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States. It is charged with selecting the United States Olympic Swimming team and any other teams that officially represent the United States, as well as the overal ...

*2008 – Rajul Sheth,

Table Tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

*2009 – John Wingfield, Director and Head Coach of USA Diving National Training Center *2010 – Michael Nyitray, Bowling - United States Bowling Congress *2011 – James Hrbek,

USA Judo USA Judo (officially known as United States Judo, Inc.) is a non-profit organization which represents all areas of U.S. judo practitioners, including athletes, coaches, referees and others. The organization is managed by a staff of seven at the U ...

*2012 – Michael Nyitray, Bowling - United States Bowling Congress *2013 – Kathleen Johnson,

Triathlon A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the ...

*2014 – George Ryals, Archery Learning Center *2015 – Brett Wolf, Menomonee Judo Club *2016 – Kim Zmeskal-Burdette,

USA Gymnastics United States of America Gymnastics (USA Gymnastics or USAG) is the national governing body for gymnastics in the United States. Established in 1963 as the U.S. Gymnastics Federation (USGF), USA Gymnastics is responsible for selecting and train ...

*2017 - none *2018 - Leandro Spina,

US Sailing The United States Sailing Association (US Sailing) is the national governing body for sailing in the United States. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Bristol, Rhode Island, US Sailing is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. US Sailing offers t ...

*2019 - BethAnn Chamberlain, U.S. Paralympic Nordic Skiing Team *2020 - Dana Skelton,

USOC Paralympic Coach of the Year winners

*2004 – Mike Hulett, USA Women's Sitting Volleyball Team coach *2005 – Randi Smith, U.S. Paralympic Archery Team Head Coach *2006 – Julie O'Neill, U.S. Paralympic Swim Team Head Coach *2007 – Adam Bleakney, U.S. Paralympic Wheelchair Track coach *2008 – Ken Armbruster, U.S. Paralympic Goalball Head Coach *2009 – Scott Moore, Denver Judo coach *2010 – Ray Watkins, U.S. Paralympic Alpine Ski Team *2011 – Dave Denniston, Paralympic Swimming Head Coach *2012 – Tom Franke, Paralympic Swimming Head Coach *2013 – Adam Bleakney, U.S. Paralympic Track & Field coach *2014 – Brian Loeffler, Swimming, U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team coach *2015 – John Devorss, Salem Tennis and Swim Club *2016 – Adam Bleakney, U.S. Paralympic Track & Field coach *2017 – Eileen Carey, Paralympic Nordic skiing coach *2018 – Gary Colliander, Paralympic Nordic Skiing coach *2019 – Wesley Johnson, U.S. Paratriathlon coach *2020 – Michel Assouline, U.S. Para Equestrian Dressage Team coach

USOC Volunteer Coach of the Year winners

*2003 – Carol Hardemon, Metro Dade Track Club *2004 – Barry Hunter, D.C. Boxing Coach *2005 – Cindi Hart, IndySpeed Sport Club Head Coach *2006 – Booker Woods, LA Jets Track and Field Head Coach *2007 – Sherman Nelson, USA Taekwondo coach *2008 – Rita Gladstone, Area Tennis League Coordinator *2009 – Brian McCutcheon, Taekwondo coach and Oahu Taekwondo Center Instructor *2010 – Dave Farmer, Aurora (Colo.) Saracens Rugby Club Coach *2011 – Tom Waga, Brigham Young University Rugby coach *2012 –

Don Showalter Donald L. Showalter is a professor emeritus and former chairman of the department of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he attended Saint Xavier High School. Afterwards, he received his bache ...

, USA Basketball, Men's Developmental National Team coach *2013 – Bienvenido “Benny” Roman, USA Boxing Training Camp coach *2014 – Kathleen Stevenson, Oklahoma Storm Junior Olympic Archer Development Team coach *2015 – Carl Cepuran, Glen Ellyn Speedskating *2016 – Tom Miller, Adirondack Speedskating Club *2017 – none *2018 – Mary Hodge, USA Para Powerlifting *2019 – Daniel Greene, Madison Speedskating Club *2020 – Cherise Wilkins, US Speedskating

Doc Councilman Science Award winners

*2003 – James E. "Doc" Counsilman,

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

*2004 – Dr. Joe Vigil,

Track and Field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

*2005 – Dr. Kyle Pierce,

Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various types of competition; promo ...

*2006 – Kat Arbour,

Figure Skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are m ...

*2007 – Sean O'Neill,

*2008 – Dave Bennett,

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

*2009 – Heidi Thibert,

*2010 – Grant Schaffner, Skeleton *2011 – Neal Henderson,

Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from t ...

*2012 – Doug Eng,

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

*2013 – Gordon Uehling III,

*2014 – Dave Hamilton, U.S. Women’s National Field Hockey Team *2015 – Warren Pretorius, Tennis Analytics *2016 –

Derek Davis Derek Davis (26 April 1948 – 13 May 2015) was an Irish broadcaster. On television, he co-hosted '' Live at 3'', presented '' Davis at Large'' and '' Out of the Blue'' and won ''Celebrity Bainisteoir''. Early life Davis was born in Bangor, ...

, USA Archery *2017 – none *2018 – Ingmar Jungnickel, US Speedskating *2019 – Andrew Stuart, US Speedskating *2020 – Jeff Lackie, U.S. Ski & Snowboard

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