{"id":58505,"date":"2014-04-09T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=58505"},"modified":"2020-08-24T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:33:09","slug":"unions-bennett-gets-spencer-penrose-award-as-top-division-i-mens-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2014\/04\/09\/unions-bennett-gets-spencer-penrose-award-as-top-division-i-mens-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Union&#8217;s Bennett gets Spencer Penrose Award as top Division I men&#8217;s coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"ps_captionIns\" aria-describedby=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bennett.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Bennett led Union to its first 30-win season in program history (photo: Marilyn Zube).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Union coach Rick Bennett has been named the Division I men&#8217;s coach of the year by the American Hockey Coaches Association.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett, who on Thursday leads his Union team into its second Frozen Four in three years, will get the Spencer Penrose Award at the coaches association&#8217;s annual banquet in Naples, Fla., on May 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/faq\/awards\/#penrose\">Spencer Penrose Award winners<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Union has won a program-best 30 games this season and plays Boston College in the national semifinals. The Dutchmen have a 15-game unbeaten streak (14-0-1) entering the Frozen Four.<\/p>\n<p>In three seasons coaching the Dutchmen, Bennett has a 78-27-16 record. His teams have won five of the six ECAC Hockey championships awarded during his tenure, including both the regular season and playoff titles this season.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett is the second Union coach to win the award in the last four years. His predecessor, Nate Leaman, won the Spencer Penrose Award in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union coach Rick Bennett has been named the Division I men&#8217;s coach of the year by the American Hockey Coaches Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":119478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Union&#039;s Bennett gets Spencer Penrose Award as top Division I men&#039;s coach - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Union coach Rick Bennett has been named the Division I men&#039;s coach of the year by the American Hockey Coaches Association.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58505\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union&#039;s Bennett gets Spencer Penrose Award as top Division I men&#039;s coach - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Union coach Rick Bennett has been named the Division I men&#039;s coach of the year by the American Hockey Coaches Association.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58505\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-04-09T14:44:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-25T00:33:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bennett.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"499\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"303\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Todd D. 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