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Nomination Calendar and Awards Schedule

The current year’s awards nomination calendar and release schedule is available here.

Coaches Polls

Division I — The Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I Coaches Poll is a composite ranking of the top 20 teams in the nation each week. Each Division I team with an NFHCA member coach is permitted one vote for the ranking each week.*

Division II — The Penn Monto/NFHCA Division II Coaches Poll is a composite ranking of the top 10 teams in the nation each week. Each Division II team with an NFHCA member coach is permitted one vote for the ranking each week.*

Division III — The Penn Monto/NFHCA Division III Coaches Poll is a composite ranking of the top 25 teams in the nation each week. Each Division III team with an NFHCA member coach is permitted one vote for the ranking each week.*

*The format of the NFHCA Collegiate Coaches Polls is designed and voted on by the NFHCA membership.

Plays of the Week

The NFHCA Plays of the Week aims to spotlight and celebrate outstanding performance and plays at all levels of the game. Through video clip submissions during each fall field hockey season, the Plays of the Week highlight the best submitted clips from the prior week of play. A highlight of the top video clips submitted are shared on Tuesday evenings weekly via the NFHCA’s social media channels, beginning the first week of September and concluding in early to mid-November, annually.

All submissions are due by 6:00 p.m. ET on Mondays for the previous week’s games.  How to submit – Post on your public Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter (X) account using hashtag #NFHCAPlay and tag us @NFHCA. Private social accounts cannot be accessed – so make sure the account you are posting from is public!  Be sure to use the above hashtag and tag the NFHCA.  NFHCA members and sports information officers may also submit their Play of the Week video clips through the Dropbox link shared with members and Sports Information Directors in August annually.  Learn more here and email cate.clark@nfhca.org with questions.

Player of the Week Awards

Student-athletes are nominated each week of the field hockey season by their collegiate conference; each conference can nominate one student-athlete for Offensive Player of the Week and one student-athlete Defensive Player of the Week for their performance from Monday to Sunday of the previous week.

The nomination form opens on Sunday evenings and closes at 11:00 a.m. (EST) the following Tuesday. Awards are announced every Wednesday during the field hockey playing season.

Please email awards@nfhca.org for a link to the nomination form.

Contact List

Each institution’s and conference’s communications contact is included on an email list that receives award announcements, coaches polls, and other related press releases. If you work for an NFHCA-member institution and would like to be included on the list, please email awards@nfhca.org

NFHCA Victory Club

The NFHCA Victory Club honors coaches who have reached career milestones.

To be nominated for the NFHCA Victory Club, a coach must have reached a career victory milestone during the current season. Coaches may be nominated at 200 wins and one-hundred win intervals thereafter (e.g. 300, 400, 500, etc.).

Nominate a coach to the NFHCA Victory Club.

NFHCA Award Archive

The NFHCA Awards Archive includes a collection of past awards and coaches polls. Awards are divided into separate documents by division, then further by award.

In order to sort or filter awards, you must download the archive document onto your own device.

Access the NFHCA Award Archive.

Need an assist?

If you have any questions about NFHCA programs or awards, please email awards@nfhca.org.

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