Hewitt Named SSC Women’s Coach of the Year

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Sunshine State Conference announced its 2020 individual awards on Thursday afternoon, and declared NSU’s head swimming coach Ben Hewitt as the Women’s Coach of the Year.
 
Hewitt earns SSC Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year honors for the third time after securing NSU’s fifth conference championship. With Hewitt’s guidance, six swimmers and five relay teams earned passage to the NCAA championship, and six women were named to All-SSC teams. This season NSU recorded 10 SSC top-times, broke two SSC meet records and eclipsed three overall league records.
 
“It’s truly an honor to be recognized by my peers,” said Hewitt. “It’s been a challenging culmination to the year for everyone and I know that each of them demonstrated great class in how they handled this situation. They all put together tremendous seasons of their own. I have the pleasure of working with them on behalf of the SSC and our athletes and we push each other to be better rather than rivalrous. That said, I am thankful to my coaching staff for executing a great season plan, for working daily to support and challenge our student-athletes and for constantly going above and beyond what it asked. I’d also like to thank our strength and conditioning staff, academic staff, sports medicine team and administrative team for their collective efforts for our program and the department.”
 
For the two remaining SSC women’s swimming awards, Courtney Sherwood of the University of Tampa was named Swimmer of the Year and Ewa Osiniak from Lynn University took Freshman of the Year honors.
 
SSC Swimmer, Freshman, and Coach of the Year awards are selected by a vote of the league’s swimming coaches following the shortened NCAA Division II National Championship. All-SSC swimmers were selected earlier this season following the conference championship meet held February 13-16 at the Long Center in Clearwater.
 

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