Iowa head soccer coach Kirk Ferentz was named on Monday to the Dodd Trophy 2024 preseason watch listing.
Introduced by the Bobby Dodd Coach of the 12 months Basis, Peach Bowl, Inc. and PNC Financial institution, Ferentz is amongst 21 school soccer coaches on the Dodd Trophy 2024 preseason watch listing.
The Dodd Trophy is one in every of school soccer’s most prestigious head teaching awards and celebrates the top coach of a crew who enjoys success on the gridiron, whereas additionally stressing the significance of scholarship, management and integrity, the three pillars of legendary coach Bobby Dodd’s teaching philosophy.
The watch listing was created via a range course of by the Bobby Dodd Coach of the 12 months Basis and Peach Bowl, Inc. It took into consideration every program’s Tutorial Progress Fee (APR), Commencement Success Fee (GSR), dedication to service and charity locally, in addition to projected success for the 2024 season.
Ferentz received the Dodd Trophy in the course of the 2015 season when Iowa began the season 12-0 and received its first Huge Ten West title.
“The Dodd Trophy continues to be essentially the most coveted coach of the 12 months award as a consequence of what we name the ‘Dodd Distinction,’ the place coaches are held to a better commonplace, each on and off the sphere,” stated Jim Terry, chairman of the Bobby Dodd Coach of the 12 months Basis.
“This award is about extra than simply wins on the gridiron, but additionally focuses on how these coaches embody management with their student-athletes within the classroom and all through their communities. Because of this, we solely think about coaches whose applications have earned the best APRs and require coaches to have at the very least two years of expertise main their present applications, in order that they’ve had time to determine a precedent at their universities.”
Ferentz has been a mannequin of consistency for the Hawkeyes. As school soccer’s longest tenured head coach, Ferentz is ready to embark upon his twenty sixth season as Iowa’s head coach. Ferentz is Iowa’s all-time winningest head coach with 196 wins, together with 122 Huge Ten victories.
The Hawkeyes received Huge Ten championships below Ferentz in 2002 and 2004 and Huge Ten West division titles in 2015, 2021 and 2023. Iowa has additionally had 13 particular person nationwide award winners and 89 NFL draft picks throughout Ferentz’s time as head coach.
Ferentz has led the Hawkeyes to 21 bowl invites, together with 13 January bowl recreation appearances. Iowa has received 10 or extra video games eight instances below his course and has been ranked within the last high 25 of the US LBM Coaches Ballot in 4 of the previous 5 seasons.
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