Sid Watson Award

The Sid Watson Award is an annual award given to the top player in NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey. It is given by the American Hockey Coaches Association. It was known as the Division III Men's Player of the Year Award prior to 2005.

Sid Watson Award

Sport	Ice hockey
Awarded for	The most outstanding player in NCAA Division III men's ice hockey.
History
First award	1993
Most recent	Devon Bobak (Trinity)

In 2004, the AHCA voted to rename the Division III Men's Player of the Year after Sid Watson.^[1] The award is named for longtime Bowdoin College hockey coach and athletic director Sid Watson, who died in April 2004 at age 71. Watson was a three sports star at Northeastern and went on to play four seasons in the NFL before starting his coaching career at Bowdoin in 1958.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the award was not conferred during the 2021 season.

Award winners

Year Winner Position School 1993 Frank Cirone Forward Wisconsin–Stevens Point 1994 Ray Alcindor Forward Middlebury 1995 Charlie Gaffney Forward Bowdoin 1996 Ian Smith Defense Middlebury 1997 Steve Toll Forward RIT 1998 Mark Spence Forward Middlebury 1999 Rob Smillie Forward St. Norbert 2000 Steve Aronson Forward St. Thomas 2001 Keith Aucoin Forward Norwich 2002 Jerry Galway Defense RIT 2003 Māris Ziediņš Forward St. Norbert 2004 Kevin Cooper Forward Middlebury 2005 Kurtis McLean Forward Norwich 2006 Adam Hanna Goaltender St. John's 2007 Andrew Gallant Goaltender Manhattanville 2008 Kyle Jones Goaltender St. Norbert

Year Winner Position School 2009 Jeff Landers Defense Amherst 2010 David Martinson Forward Gustavus Adolphus 2011 Chris Berenguer Defense Hamline 2012 Jonathan LaRose Goaltender Amherst 2013 Paul Rodrigues Forward Oswego State 2014 David Jacobson Goaltender St. Norbert 2015 Drew Fielding Goaltender St. Thomas 2016 Jamie Murray Goaltender Babson 2017 Evan Buitenhuis Goaltender Hamilton 2018 Colin Larkin Forward Massachusetts–Boston 2019 Devin McDonald Goaltender Geneseo State 2020 Tom Aubrun Goaltender Norwich 2022 Peter Bates Forward St. Norbert 2023 Matus Spodniak Forward Adrian 2024 Devon Bobak Goaltender Trinity

Winners by school School Winners St. Norbert 5 Middlebury 4 Norwich 3 Amherst 2 RIT 2 St. Thomas 2 Adrian 1 Babson 1 Bowdoin 1 Geneseo State 1 Gustavus Adolphus 1 Hamilton 1 Hamline 1 Manhattanville 1 Massachusetts–Boston 1 Oswego State 1 St. John's 1 Trinity 1 Wisconsin–Stevens Point 1

Winners by position Position Winners Forward 15 Defense 4 Goaltender 11

See also

• Hobey Baker Award - D-I men
• Laura Hurd Award - D-III women
• Patty Kazmaier Award - D-I women