Derraugh Named League’s Coach of the Year
ALBANY, N.Y. -- ECAC Hockey today announced Cornell University
Women's Ice Hockey Head Coach Doug Derraugh has been named the
league’s 2010-11 ECAC Hockey Women's Ice Hockey Coach of the
Year.
A finalist for the award last season, Derraugh guided Cornell to
its second consecutive ECAC Hockey regular-season title this season
with a 20-1-1 record. Derraugh's club has broken the school season
win total again this season, entering post-season play with 26
overall victories.
The Big Red have been a top-10 team in the national polls
throughout the season either ranked first or second each week. The
top spot ranking was their first-ever No. 1 ranking in the
program’s history.
Under Derraugh, the 2010-11 Cornell Big Red led ECAC Hockey in
scoring offense (4.50 G/GM), scoring defense (0.91 G/GM),
power-play success rate (26.8%), and penalty-kill (94.8%). Derraugh
has turned around the Big Red program and made it one of the
nation’s elite over the last few seasons. The Cornell
graduate has taken a program that won just four games in the season
prior to his arrival and brought it to the national title game in
his fifth season (2009-2010), completely turning around the culture
of the women's hockey program at Cornell.
The finalists for the award were Mark Hudak, Dartmouth and Rick
Seeley, Quinnipiac.
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