Coach of the Year
The Coach of the Year program is administrated by the Coach Representatives.
OSI Coach Representatives ([email protected]):
Senior Coach Representative: Amy Saribalas (FRCE)
Assistant Coach Representative: Brigid Burke (GTAC)
2023-2024 Coach of the Year Recipients:
Head Coach: Denise Humphrey (BSC)
Ken Heis (RAYS)
Assistant Coach: Gary Grant (UASC)
Previous Coach of the Year recipients:
| Senior | Age Group | |
| 2022-2023 | Kyle Goodrich (COA) - Lg Team) Chris McKinney (MAKO) - Sm Team) |
Dave Johnson (WTRC) - Lg Team Matt Celik (USA) - Sm Team |
| 2021-2022 | John Coffman (NAAC) - Lg Team Kyle Goodrich (COA) - Sm Team |
Jen Bernsdorf (NAAC) - Lg Team Brian Botzman (UAC) - Sm Team |
| 2019-2020 | John Coffman (NAAC) - Lg Team Chris McKinney (MAKO) - Sm Team |
TBD - Lg Team TBD - Sm Team |
| 2018-2019 | Ken Heis (RAYS) | Katie Schmidt (RAYS) |
| 2017-2018 | Ken Heis (RAYS) | Todd Billhimer (RAYS) |
| 2016-2017 | Ken Heis (RAYS) | Chad Rehkamp (CLPR) |
| 2015-2016 | Chris Wolford (CM) | Jeremy Wilken (CM) |
OSI Coach of the Year Award Program
Criteria to Consider
- Coaches ability to produce swimmers that perform at the highest level of our sport.
- Team performance and individual athlete performance should both be considered.
- Coaches ability to build and sustain a strong age-group/senior program.
- Team structure, sportsmanship and work-ethic of athletes should also be considered.
- Team and Coaches contribution to the sport.
Process:
- Nomination list distributed at Fall Senior Championship, Spring JO Championship.
- Teams nominate up to 5 teams each per Large/Small team categories. Nominations are selected by Team.
- Ballot distributed with top 5 Large/Small team nominations.
- Teams return ballot with one vote per category. One ballot vote per Team.
- Winning team identifies who will receive the award.
- Coach-of-the-Year winner announced final evening of the meet.
- Senior COY announced at Fall Senior Championships. Age-Group COY announced at Spring JO Championships. Both will also be recognized at the OSI Recognition Banquet.
Goals:
- To encourage greater participation in the COY award program.
- Provides a broader opportunity to recognize both coaches and teams.
- Award goes to both Large Team and Small Team coaches.
- AWARD: up to $1000 will be reimbursable (receipts needed) to each recipient and to be used for continuing education or clinics related to coaching. The award is valid until the end of the next swim year. Receipts and invoices must be submitted to [email protected] for reimbursement or payment.
Large Team – Small Team Definition: Sum the total number of 15&Over registered athletes in the week before the meet. Divide this sum by the number of teams with 15&Over athletes eliminating any remainder. Teams whose number of 15&Over registered athletes is equal to or less than this number, will be small teams. Large Teams will be those teams whose sum is greater than the calculated number.
