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CHA Coach of the Year

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ17016416 ↗
Source-derived summary

The CHA Coach of the Year was an annual award given out at the conclusion of the College Hockey America regular season to the best coach in the conference as voted by the coaches of each CHA team.

The Coach of the Year was first awarded in 2000 and every year thereafter until 2010 when the CHA was disbanded when they could no longer retain their automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Award winners

Winners by school

See also

CHA Awards

References

General

"CHA Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2013-07-31.

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This entry incorporates text from “CHA Coach of the Year” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.