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.
In 2004, the AHCA voted to rename the Division III Men's Player of the Year after Sid Watson. The award is named for longtime Bowdoin College hockey coach and athletic director Sid Watson, who died in April 2004 at age 71. Watson played four seasons in the NFL before starting to coach hockey at Bowdoin in 1958.
==Award winners==
Year	Winner 	Position 	School
1993	Frank Cirone 	Forward 	University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
1994	Ray Alcindor 	Forward 	Middlebury College
1995	Charlie Gaffney	Forward 	Bowdoin College
1996	Ian Smith 	Defense 	Middlebury College
1997	Steve Toll 	Forward 	Rochester Institute of Technology
1998	Mark Spence 	Forward 	Middlebury College
1999	Rob Smillie 	Forward 	St. Norbert College
2000	Steve Aronson 	Forward 	University of St. Thomas
2001	Keith Aucoin 	Forward 	Norwich University
2002	Jerry Galway 	Defense 	Rochester Institute of Technology
2003	Maris Ziedins 	Forward 	St. Norbert College
2004	Kevin Cooper 	Forward 	Middlebury College
2005	Kurtis McLean 	Forward 	Norwich University
2006	Adam Hanna 	Goaltender 	St. John's University
2007	Andrew Gallant 	Goaltender 	Manhattanville College
2008	Kyle Jones 	Goaltender 	St. Norbert College
2009	Jeff Landers 	Defense 	Amherst College
2010	David Martinson	Forward 	Gustavus Adolphus College
2011	Chris Berenguer	Defense 	Hamline University
2012	Jonathan LaRose	Goaltender 	Amherst College
2013	Paul Rodrigues 	Forward 	SUNY Oswego
2014	David Jacobson 	Goaltender 	St. Norbert College
2015	Drew Fielding 	Goaltender 	St. John's University
2016	Jamie Murray 	Goaltender 	Babson College
2017	Evan Buitenhuis	Goaltender 	Hamilton
2018	Colin Larkin 	Goaltender 	Massachusetts–Boston
2019	Devin McDonald 	Goaltender 	Geneseo State
2020	Tom Auburn 	Goaltender 	Norwich University
2021	Not Awarded 	Not Awarded	Not Awarded
2022	Peter Bates 	Forward 	St. Norbert College
2023	 	 	
===Winners by school===
School 	Winners
St. Norbert 	5
Middlebury 	4
Norwich 	3
Amherst 	2
RIT 	2
St. Thomas 	2
Babson 	1
Bowdoin 	1
Geneseo State 	1
Gustavus Adolphus 	1
Hamilton 	1
Hamline 	1
Manhattanville 	1
St. John's 	1
Oswego State 	1
Massachusetts–Boston 	1
Wisconsin–Stevens Point	1
===Winners by position===
Position 	Winners
Forward 	13
Defense 	4
Goaltender	10
==See also==
*Hobey Baker Award - D-I men
*Laura Hurd Award - D-III women
*Patty Kazmaier Award - D-I women
==References==
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