The National Coach of the Year Award
"DEDICATED TO THOSE TEACHERS WHO ADVANCE THE FORENSIC ART"
Award stewardship has resided with Emory University and University of South Carolina
1967 Anabel Haygood
University of Alabama
1968 Herb James
Dartmouth College
1969 George Ziegelmueller
Wayne State University
1970 John Lynch
St. Anselm's College
1971 James Unger
Georgetown University
1972 David Zarefsky Northwestern University
1973 Thomas Kane University of Pittsburgh
1974 Daniel Bozik Augustana College
1975 Chester Gibson West Georgia College
1976 Bill Henderson Houston University
1977 Cully Clark University of Alabama
1978 No award protesting SCA moving onto the weekend  
1979 Tim Browning University of Arizona
1980 Donn Parson University of Kansas
1981 J. W. Patterson University of Kentucky
1982 Ken Strange Dartmouth College
1983 Tim Hynes University of Louisville
1984 Walter Ulrich Vanderbilt University
1985 Bill Balthrop University of North Carolina
1986 Robin Rowland & David Hingstman Baylor University
1987 Jeff Bile Southern Illinois University
1988 Allan Louden Wake Forest University
1989 Daryl Scott Gonzaga University
1990 Dallas Perkins Harvard University
1991 Melissa Wade Emory University
1992 Glen Strickland Emporia State University
1993 A. C. Snider University of Vermont
1994 David Berube University of South Carolina
1995 Todd Graham Northwestern State University
1996 Doug Duke University of Central Oklahoma
1997 Ross Smith Wake Forest University
1998 William E. Newnam   Emory University

Scott Harris, Kansas

1999 Carrie Crenshaw
University of Alabama
2000 Will Repko
Michigan State University
2001

Joel Rollins

University of Texas-Austin 
2002 Scott Deatherage Northwestern University
2003 Jim Hanson
Whitman College
2004 Jon Brushke California State Univ.-Fullerton

2005

Sherry Hall Harvard University
2006 Scott Harris University of Kansas