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Brian Windhorst	His writing at The Plain Dealer was honored by the United States Basketball Writers Association for Best Game Story in 2009, and by the Associated Press.
Ed Barrow	Barrow was named Executive of the Year by The Sporting News in 1941, the second time he won the award.
Ben Schwartzwalder	In 1959, he also won the national coach of the year award.
John Maclean (wheelchair sportsperson)	In 2000, Maclean received a Medal of the Order of Australia'' for service to sport as a triathlete and swimmer, to the promotion of sport for people with disabilities, and the encouragement of junior wheelchair athletes''.
Chris Mosier	Mosier was one of three finalists for the Compete Magazine Athlete of the Year award in 2011.
Luc Longley	In 2001, he was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport' Best of the Best'.
Christopher Williams (sprinter)	In 2001 he was named Jamaica Sportsman of the Year.
Bill Snyder	In 1998 Snyder was recognized as the National Coach of the Year by the Associated Press and the Walter Camp Football Foundation, and was awarded the Bear Bryant Award and the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award.
James Huckle	In November he was again named as a Team Essex Ambassador for 2012 and also won his second Sports Personality of the year award.
Rob Lewis (entrepreneur)	Lewis is a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
Ed Korfanty	In 2005, the U. S. Fencing Coaches Association presented Korfanty with the 2005 Outstanding Coach of the Year award for his outstanding results at the international level.
Darren Kimura	Kimura received the 2002 SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
Andy Scott (English footballer)	His first calendar year in charge was recognised with an award, the BBC London'' Manager of The Year'' for 2008.
Pippa Funnell	As a result of her phenomenal achievements she was voted Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year 2003 and was in the top five of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards.
Adam Graves	During the 1993 -- 94 season Graves was awarded with the King Clancy Memorial Trophy which is given annually to the NHL player who best exemplifies leadership qualities or has made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution to his community.
Michael Costigan (youth speaker)	He was the recipient of a Youth Venture Grant from Ashoka in 2007 for his work as a young entrepreneur at madFusion.
Ilya Zakharov	Ilya was awarded the FINA Male Diver of the Year of 2012.
Joe Morrison	Morrison was named by the Walter Camp Foundation as the 1984 National College Football Coach of the Year.
Melissa Perrine	In 2007, the Wingercarribee Council area named her their Young Australian of the Year.
Dave Pasiak	Pasiak has also been named Mid-State Athletic Conference Coach of the Year three times, and was recognized as Region III Coach of the Year in 2003.
Alan Mathews	He was named Soccer Writers' Association of Ireland'' Personality of the Year'' in 2003.
Ben Way	He won'' New Business Millennium Young Entrepreneur Of The Year'' in 2000 which was given to him by Gordon Brown.
Tracy Hyde	Tracy's adopted sister, Zara, can also claim fame as an elite athlete and was awarded the OBE (November 2010) for her significant contribution to British sport.
Jacqueline Freney	In 2008, she was awarded an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship.
Matthew Michalewicz	He was the winner of the 2011 SA Pearcey Entrepreneur Award.
Lawson Little	He won the James E. Sullivan Award for outstanding amateur athlete in 1935.
Bernard Dunne	In late January 2010 Dunne was named Boxer of the Year at the Irish National Boxing Awards.
Jim Tracy (baseball)	For his efforts in the 2009 season, Tracy was named Sporting News' NL Manager of the Year and the National League Manager of the Year Award as voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Amo Bessone	Len Ceglarski and Bessone shared the Spencer Penrose Award as the national coach of the year in 1966.
Helen Greiner	In 2003, Greiner and iRobot co-founder Colin Angle were named Ernst and Young New England Entrepreneurs of the Year.
DeAngelo Williams	In 2005, he was named the inaugural winner of the ARA Sportsmanship Award, presented by the Awards and Recognition Association to the Division I football player who best exhibits sportsmanship both on and off the field.
Greg Patton	In 2004 Coach Patton was named the Mountain Region Coach of the Year.
Chuck Faucette	In June 2008, Faucette received the highest honor from the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches association (CSCCa) as he was named Master Strength and Conditioning coach.
Buddy O'Connor	These achievements were reflected in his being named Canada's athlete of the year for 1948.
Mark Webber	Webber's results again earned him plaudits in the press, winning the 2003'' Driver of the Year'' award from Autocar magazine.
Manjunath Mural	He was nominated for World Gourmet Awards, KitchenAid Chef of the Year 2011 and USA Poultry & Egg Export Council Asian Cuisine Chef of the Year.
Michael Vaughan	He was also nominated in the Captain of the Year category for the 2006 ICC Awards (eventually awarded to Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene) which was held in Mumbai on 3 November 2006.
Ty Watson	In 2010 Ty watson received further acclaim for his coaching winning the East Midlands Coach of the Year and the Volunteer of the Year as well.
Kara Leo	In 2007, Leo won the NSW Junior Athlete of the Year with a Disability award.
Ellie Simmonds	In 2011, Simmonds won the award for' Best British Sporting Performance for an Athlete with Disability' at the Jaguar Academy of Sport Annual Awards.
Ajantha Mendis	Ajantha Mendis won the Emerging Player of the Year award at the LG ICC Awards ceremony held in Dubai in September 2008.
John Savage (baseball)	He was also named 2010 NCAA Division I Western Regional Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA).
Fred Wilt	He won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1950.
Adrian Hurley	In 2002 he was named as a finalist in the Australian Sports Awards Administrator of the Year.
Calvin Johnson	Following the 2010 season, Johnson was the recipient of the Lions/Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association/Pro Football Writers Association (Detroit Chapter) Media-Friendly Good Guy Award.
Robert F. Busbey	He was editor of the NCAA rules book over 12 years and received the 1982 National Collegiate & Scholastic Swimming Trophy, one of the sports highest awards.
Gareth Edwards	In 1974 Edwards was named BBC Wales Sports Personality of the year.
Oscar Pistorius	In February 2012 Pistorius was awarded the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability for 2012.
Drew Brees	On December 17, 2010, he was named AP Male Athlete of the Year.
Sugar Ray Robinson	In 1951, Robinson was named Ring Magazine's'' Fighter of the Year'' for the second time.
Bradley Cooper	In September 2011, GQ UK presented Cooper with the'' International Man of the Year'' award.
Gene Chizik	He garnered the 2004 Broyles Award, which is given each year to the top assistant coach in the nation.
Robert Karlsson	This achievement, among other things, resulted in him winning Swedish male athlete of the year at the Swedish Sports Gala in January 2009, also a Swedish male golfer first.
Carl Froch	He was also voted WBN (World Boxing News) fighter of the year 2012 and fighter of year 2012 by BoxRec.
Joe Calzaghe	He was also awarded the Young Boxer of the Year Award in 1995.
Asafa Powell	He also received the honour of Track & Field Athlete of the Year for 2006.
Taylor Swift	Swift and Alan Jackson were jointly named the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter/Artist of the Year in 2007, with Swift becoming the youngest person ever to be honored with the title.
Samir Arora	Samir Arora received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in 2009.
Stephen Brogan (cricketer)	He was short-listed in The Drinks Business prestigious `` On-Trade Business Person of the Year Award 2007 ″, where he finished runner-up.
Charlie Weis	His team's success on the field helped make Weis winner of the 2005 Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award, selected by the Football Writers Association of America.
Bill Curry	Curry was honored in 1989 as the SEC Coach of the Year and received the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award.
Carroll Knicely	Under his leadership, the Glasgow Daily Times was named by the Kentucky Press Association as the best newspaper in its class in 1967.
Sanya Richards-Ross	In 2002 she was named National High School Female Athlete of the Year, USA Track and Field's Youth Athlete of the Year, and Track and Field News Women's Prep Athlete of the Year.
Frank Ponta	In 2003, at the Wheelchair Sports WA Annual Awards, Ponta was named the Coach of the Year.
Geno Auriemma	In 2013, Auriemma was the recipient of the Winged Foot Award, a crystal globe presented by the New York Athletic Club to the winner of the Division I National Championship. -RCB- -RCB-
Becky Lyne	As a result of her successes in 2006 the Hallamshire Harrier was the recipient of the prestigious Dame Marea Hartman Award awarded to the outstanding female athlete of the season.
Annika S?renstam	She was awarded her second Jerringpriset award in Sweden plus the 2003 Golf Writers' Trophy by the Association of Golf Writers.
Lorena Ochoa	Her achievements were recognized outside the sport of golf when Ochoa won the 2006 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year award and received the National Sports Prize for the second time.
Hicham El Guerrouj	He was also named best athlete of the year by the athletics journal Track and Field News in 2002.
Ed Thomas	In 2005, Thomas won the prestigious NFL High School Coach of the Year award.
Matt Hamilton (curler)	While in Sweden, Hamilton won the championship's 2008 Sportsmanship Award, an award only given out to one male junior curler and one female junior curler.
Bruce Jenner	Jenner was also the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year in 1976.
Vijay Mallya	In 2010 he was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award at The Asian Awards.
Billy Kennedy (basketball)	Kennedy was named 2010 OVC and National Association of Basketball Coaches (District 19) coach of the year.
Peter Caulfield	Peter Caulfield picked up the inaugural Manager of the Year award for 2008 -- 09, sponsored by the Scottish Sun newspaper, when he lifted the prize at the first ever Scottish Women's Football awards night at Hampden Park.
Jacques Martin (ice hockey)	Martin was thrice nominated for the Jack Adams Award for top NHL coach and won it in 1999.
Tommy Maddox	He won the ESPN ESPY for Best Comeback Athlete and the NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award for his performance during the 2002 season.
Jerry Diorio	In 2007, he was named Regional Coach of the Year by the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association.
Jon Lester	In an appropriate coincidence, Lester also received the 2008 Hutch Award, given to the Major League player who'' best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire'' of Hutchinson, after whom Lester's treatment center was named.
Joannie Rochette	In December 2010, she was voted the Female Athlete of the Year by The Canadian Press.
Moses Ndiema Masai	At the 2005 Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year awards he won the most promising sportsman category.
Natalie Golda	In May 2005 Golda received the Peter J. Cutino Award, given to the best player in women's collegiate water polo.
Donald Gordon (South African businessman)	In 1968 he was named' Business Man of the Year' by the South African Sunday Times.
Rebecca Adlington	In November 2008, Adlington was named as the Sports Journalists' Association's Sportswoman of the Year, receiving her trophy at a ceremony in the City of London from HRH The Princess Royal, herself a former winner of that award.
Chantelle Newbery	In 2005, Newbery was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport' Best of the Best'.
Gus Malzahn	On December 23, 2013, it was announced that Malzahn had won the Associated Press National Coach of the Year, edging out Duke's David Cutcliffe, 33 votes to 17.
Michele Norris	In 2009 the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) awarded Norris its Journalist of the Year award.
Steve Redgrave	In 2000, Redgrave won his fifth consecutive Olympic Gold Medal, retired from the sport, and became the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Jason Leonard	In 2012 Leonard was the second recipient of'' The Prince Obolensky Award'' presented by the The Prince Obolensky Association to people associated with the game of Rugby Union who embody the'' Corinthian Spirit''.
Marian Bublewicz	In a poll held by the monthly newspaper'' Auto Moto i Sport'' in 2000, Marian Bublewicz was named' The Best Polish Rally Driver of the 20th Century'.
Harold Elliott	In 1979, he received the Dallas Sports Association Award of Merit and was the runner-up in voting for the Texas Sports Writers' Coach of the Year Award.
Carolyn Peck	Peck was awarded the US Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Coach of the Year, the WBCA Coach of the Year, and the Naismith College Coach of the Year awards in 1999. -RCB- -RCB-
Bob Knight	In 1989 he garnered National Coach of the Year honors by the AP, UPI, and the United States Basketball Writers Association.
Fred Russell	Russell received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award in 1981 from the American Football Coaches Association, that same year he was awarded the Bert McGrane Award from the Football Writers of America.
Cindy Klassen	In 2007 she was given the award for Female Athlete of the Year at the Canadian Sports Awards.
Russ Rose	In 2005, USA Volleyball named Rose one of their All-Time Great Coaches, making him the first Big Ten coach to ever receive the honor and putting him in the company of the best volleyball coaches in history, including previous Olympic coaches as well as many of their peers.
Phil Packer	In 2009, he won the Helen Rollason Award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, was'' Fundraiser of the Year'' at the Pride of Britain Awards, was named'' Most intrepid man'' by The Observer newspaper, and received the Athlete of the Year Badge from The Scout Association.
Don Cherry	Cherry won the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year in 1976.
Mart?n Parejo Maza	In 2012, he was a recipient of a Plan ADO $ 7,200 athlete scholarship with a $ 1,200 reserve and a $ 2,500 coaching scholarship.
Linet Masai	She was also awarded the Race Results Weekly Female Runner of the Year award and the Kenyan Sportswoman of the Year award in 2009.