Sid Watson Award

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	Tom Aubrun (Norwich)

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.^[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 played 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
2008	Kyle Jones	Goaltender	St. Norbert
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

Winners by position

Position	Winners
Forward	15
Defense	4
Goaltender	10

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