BOSTON, Mass. – Mark Bolding is the first women's coach to win American Hockey Coaches Association Coach of the Year at both the Division I and III levels.

The AHCA announced today that Yale's Susan Cavanagh Head Coach is getting his fifth Waterford Crystal Coach of the Year trophy, something he would certainly exchange for national championship hardware.

Bolding, at the 2022 Frozen Four with his record-breaking No. 4 Bulldog squad, is preparing for tomorrow's 7 p.m. semifinal against No. 1 Ohio State.

His other AHCA Coach of the Year honors came in 2010, 11, 12 and 18, while he was at Norwich, and they were national champions in two (2011, 18) of those seasons. The five awards are second most all time.

The other bench leader honored by the nation's coaches at both levels was RIT's Wayne Wilson, who coached the Tiger men's team in Division III before they moved up.
Here are the other 2022 finalists: Maura Crowell, Minnesota Duluth (NCAA Semifinalist), Paul Flanagan, Syracuse — (CHA Coach of the Year), Dave Flint, Northeastern (NCAA Semifinalist), Nadine Muzerall, Ohio State (WCHA Coach of the Year and NCAA Semifinalist), Jim Plumer, Vermont (Hockey East Coach of the Year) and David Stockdale, Franklin Pierce (NEWHA Coach of the Year).