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<\/p>\nFORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, September 9. LAST weekend at its award banquet held in Las Vegas, Nev., the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) announced its award winners for the past year.<\/p>\n
Bob Bowman, who coached Michael Phelps to the greatest performance of all time with eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, easily walked away with the ASCA Coach of the Year honor.<\/p>\n
Dick Hannula received the Peter Daland Award, given out in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in the coaching profession. Hannula, the author of Coaching Swimming Successfully and The Swim Coaching Bible, was a national team coach from 1973-85 on various international meets. He also managed the national team in 1979 and at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.<\/p>\n
ASCA also inducted Paul Blair, Frank Busch, Ray Buzzard, Mary Kelly Spitzer and Don LaMont into its Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
Awards of Excellence were also given out:
\nGold (20 years): Dave Gibson (Brophy East Swim Team)<\/p>\n
Silver (15 years): Tim Bauer (The Woodlands Swim Team)<\/p>\n
Bronze (10 years): Bill Dorenkott (Ohio State University), George Kennedy (Johns Hopkins University) and Steven Lochte (Daytona Beach Swimming)<\/p>\n
Additionally, ASCA named its 2008 Age Group Coaches of the Year, as listed below:<\/p>\n
LSC\tCoach of the Year
\nAdirondack\tGeorge Hooper
\nAlaska\tDave Snyder
\nAllegheny Mountain\tJim Wargo
\nArizona\tMelissa Ripley
\nArkansas\tJim Norman
\nBoarder\tLeAnn Carr
\nCentral California\tAngela Martinho
\nColorado\tTodd Schmidt
\nConnecticut\tDennis Flores
\nFlorida Gold Coast\tIan Cross
\nFlorida Swimming\tSherwood Watts
\nGeorgia \tGary Taylor
\nGulf\tShane McCauley
\nHawaii\tMerri Wada Tanji
\nIllinois\tTodd Capen
\nIndiana\tMatt Lee
\nInland Empire\tTodd Stafek, Jennifer Tonkyn
\nIowa\tAdam Osweiler
\nKentucky\tTodd Larkin
\nLake Erie\tMike Wohl
\nLouisiana\tCourtney Roedel
\nMaine\tMardie LaRiviere
\nMaryland\tTom Yetter, Gary Mann
\nMetropolitan\tDragos Coca
\nMichigan\tJosh Morgan
\nMiddle Atlantic\tEric Posegay
\nMidwestern\tBryan Kratky
\nMinnesota\tSue Sathre, Kate Lundsten
\nMississippi\tRebecca Uhl-Van Oostendorp
\nMissouri Valley\tMegan Pittman
\nMontana\tKirby Majerus
\nNew England\tMike Spring, Carl Cederquist
\nNew Jersey\tCathy Corcione
\nNew Mexico\tTracey Wright
\nNiagara\tTim Bennett
\nNorth Carolina\tRobin Jacobs
\nNorth Dakota\tMarv Fiest
\nNorth Texas\tTed Carson, Heather Maher
\nOhio\tTodd Saltus
\nOklahoma\tCindy Goddard
\nOregon\tJames Resare
\nOzark\tJack Young
\nPacific Northwest\tGreg Gillette
\nPacific Swimming\tErik Colwill
\nPotomac Valley\tDave Greene
\nSan Diego Imperial\tKevin Eslinger,
\nSierra Nevada\tDarin Mai
\nSnake River\tBrian Gallagher
\nSouth Carolina\tTim Conley
\nSouth Dakota\tLindsie Micko
\nSouth Texas\tBJ Allenstein
\nSoutheastern\tMark Krimm, Len Stromm
\nSouthern California \tJeremy Anderson, Chris Barber, Gyongyver Sovago, Tressa Reis, Audy Octavian, Conway Yeo, Kristine Julian, Sheri Stoddard
\nUtah\tTodd Etherington
\nVirginia\tSteve Hennessy
\nWest Texas\tJana Floyd
\nWest Virginia\tJoy Kraus
\nWisconsin\tJacob Johnson
\nWyoming\tPatrick Frankfort<\/p>\n
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