The Edward Jeremiah Award is awarded yearly to the top coach in Division III men's ice hockey by the American Hockey Coaches Association.
The finalists for each year's award comprise the conference Coach of the Year winners from each Division III men's ice hockey conference, plus the coaches of the Frozen Four teams.
The award was originally given to the top college division coach but when the NCAA changed to numerical divisions in 1973 the honor became available to any coach at the Division II or Division III level. The Division II ice hockey level has only occurred sporadically and thus the Edward Jeremiah Award is only officially awarded to the much more stable D-III level of competition.
Eddie Jeremiah was the long-time coach for Dartmouth College who, in addition to winning 308 college games, wrote an instructional text considered the hockey bible by many.
Award winners
Year Coach Team 1970 Sid Watson 1971 Sid Watson 1972 Jack Canniff 1973 Jim Cross 1974 Barry Urbanski 1975 Wendall Forbes 1976 Don Roberts 1977 Bill Riley Jr. 1978 Sid Watson 1979 Don Brose 1980 Steve Stirling 1981 Herb Hammond 1982 Steve Stirling 1983 Mike Gibbons Peter Van Buskirk 1984 Bob Peters 1985 Rob Riley 1986 Terry Meagher 1987 Tony Mariano 1988 Glenn Thomaris 1989 Terry Meagher 1990 Bill Beaney 1991 Glenn Thomaris 1992 Bruce Marshall 1993 Joe Baldarotta 1994 Jeff Meredith 1995 Bill Beaney 1996 Dean Talafous 1997 Mike McShane
Year Coach Team 1998 Mike Schwartz 1999 Mike McShane 2000 Mike McShane 2001 Wayne Wilson 2002 Dan Stauber 2003 George Roll 2004 Bill Beaney 2005 Terry Skrypek 2006 Bill Beaney 2007 Ed Gosek 2008 Tim Coghlin 2009 Dominick Dawes 2010 Mike McShane 2011 Tim Coghlin 2012 Jack Arena 2013 Matt Loen 2014 Chris Schultz 2015 Jack Arena 2016 Chris Schultz Peter Belisle 2017 Mike McShane 2018 Blaise MacDonald 2019 Tyler Krueger 2020 Cam Ellsworth 2022 Adam Krug 2023 Mark Taylor 2024 Mark Taylor 2025 Peter Roundy 2026 Mark Taylor
Winners by school 7 5 5 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Multiple Wins 5 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2
See also Spencer Penrose Award
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